Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 28, 2010

If knowledge acquisition is the end-game, then the logical conclusion was to provide information that could be turned, whatever the magic employed, into knowledge in the recipient’s head. Believe me, the old idea that data becomes information which in turn becomes knowledge and finally transmogrifies into wisdom has been debunked years ago.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 10, 2016

(this article first appeared in the Spring 2016 Edition of Training Industry Quarterly) Classroom education emerged in a world of information paucity. We now live in a world of information abundance. Technology offers huge opportunities for social learning, peer feedback, and access to information at the point of need.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

A further 2010 study of manager development activities by Casebow and Ferguson at GoodPractice in Edinburgh, Scotland reported that informal chats with colleagues was both the most frequently used development activity and was also seen as the most effective by the majority of managers.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 14, 2020

The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross, is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Recipients champion workplace and social learning practices inside their organization and/or on the wider stage.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 12, 2013

Qualcomm’s ‘ 52 week''s’ programme is an excellent example of this approach - enhancing or replacing intensive away-from-work on-boarding with information and resources ‘injected’ into the workflow. How can I go about finding the best sources of information to help me? We can think of three aspects of building capability.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 16, 2013

Equally, I asked myself, why would people prefer to get information and learn through the intermediation of their L&D department if they can do so faster and easier from other practitioners and colleagues, or people in their network who may or may not work in the same team, company or country as them? I think not.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 21, 2015

When we look at a 2D rendering of our 3D world we often need additional information to make sense of it. Workplace learning is generally more effective than simulations which, in turn, are generally more effective than being provided with information using a traditional ‘knowledge transfer’ learning approach.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

You’re learning all the time, taking in new information and making sense of it. When most were still focused on integrating eLearning into courses and curricula Jay was shouting that the real power wasn’t in structured learning at all but in workplace and in informal and social learning approaches. No, this is learning as a life skill.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 4, 2011

There have been millions of words written and spoken about ‘informal’ and social learning over the past few years.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 27, 2015

Like the brains of many professors, the information you’re looking for is usually in there somewhere, but sometimes difficult to pin down. For me Twitter gives access to smart people who provide an enormous wealth of information and insight through their commentary and links to research, articles and other resources.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 24, 2013

It’s also important because the 70:20:10 framework provides a way to integrate currently disparate development activities – such as leadership programmes, informal coaching and mentoring, and the extraction of learning from work through conversations, communities, sharing, reflective practice and other actions.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 13, 2016

The challenge is how can L&D activate and support informal and social learning in an intentional, high impact way that builds a vibrant learning culture? Jay Cross, a friend and colleague in the Internet Time Alliance , spent the last years of his life raising awareness of the importance of ‘informal learning’ across the world.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 6, 2015

70 solutions include near real-time support, information sources, challenges and situational learning. The importance of informal learning at work. The 70, 20 and 10 categories refer to different ways people learn and acquire the habits of high performance. ‘70’ Visit the 70:20:10 Institute site at www.702010institute.com On: [link].

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 28, 2016

Qualcomm, the global mobile technology company, uses its successful ’52 weeks’ program to encourage employees to use structured storytelling for reflection and to share information, attitudes and behaviours across the company. What makes us think becoming high performers in our work is any different?

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 5, 2017

She was subsequently the Information Futurist at PeopleSoft. As a Senior Manager at Microsoft, she developed new training practices and wrote an accessible white paper on the deeper aspects of learning design. She also served as a co-founder and editor at Learnativity, an early online magazine.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 20, 2015

In other words, ‘informally’. Research over the past 40 years has shown that informal and workplace learning is increasingly pervasive and central to learning in organisations. The evidence, however, does point to the fact that most learning is experiential and social, and most of that being carried out in a self-directed way.

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Performance Learning Productivity

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Evernote: I’d drown or die trying to find that useful article or piece of information without Evernote. Wikipedia : an amazing free source of information. Its easy and seamless interface makes jumping between news, blogs, journals, magazines and applications such as Flickr simple and straightforward.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 27, 2015

Research over the past 40 years has shown that informal and workplace learning is increasingly pervasive and central to learning in organisations. It also stresses that learning is highly context dependent. However, don’t make the mistake of quoting the numbers as a mantra or as fixed percentages.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 24, 2017

I’m a great believer that access to information is a human right almost as much as access to clean water and healthy food” A personalised social learning experience Today’s L&D technology requirements are vastly different from how they started out. In today’s world we can have both.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 7, 2013

Clark Quinn We’ll see an increasing use of mobile, and some organizations will recognize the platform that such devices provide to move the full suite of learning support (specifically performance support and informal learning) out to employees, dissolving the arbitrary boundaries between training and the full spectrum of possibilities.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 30, 2009

In short, we forget around 40% of non-contextual information within the first 20 minutes of learning it if we don’t practice and reinforce the learning almost immediately. Content is information which we believe somehow transmogrifies into knowledge that will be useful to ‘do’ at some time in the future. What’s Worth Knowing?

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Performance Learning Productivity

APRIL 1, 2013

We need a lot more, and a lot different, from whichever technologies we select to support the development of our workforce today and into the future Moving to the Future The diagram below gives an idea of challenge facing us as we move into a world where learning management is in the hands of each individual and their supporting ecosystem.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The main difference between experiential learning and more traditional classroom-based and eLearning approaches is that experiential learning is focused exclusively on action rather than on information.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Even further, is the organisation with the 49 hours per year simply stuck in the industrial age and using formal training as the only approach to attack the issue of building high performance – when it could (and should) be using an entire kitbag of informal, social, workplace and other approaches as well?

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 22, 2009

It seems that Reader's Digest hasn't come to terms with the way that people get their information, and their laughs, these days. Current blog postings include '4 tips for selling your gold' and 'it's enough to make your stomach hurt' – with more tips, this time for avoiding heartburn. So it's no surprise really.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 5, 2018

Culture, the most powerful presence in your organization, is only learned socially & informally. He was an early adopter of using social media for onboarding and has long been active on social media, contributing to the global conversation on improving workplace learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 20, 2013

t/ A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person''s responses to and interpretations of situations.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 19, 2009

They feed data/information/perspectives up to the Strategic Board so it can make its decisions and, in turn, take Strategic Board decisions and work out how to execute them – how to prioritise L&D resources to best effect and how they can maximise ‘bang for buck’. The key here is to ensure that HR/L&D is not over-represented.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 18, 2010

Most people working in the knowledge economy want to create their own personal learning environments with tools that suit the way they work, gather information, and learn. LMS seems to be a tool designed and adapted for a world of reasonably neat formal event-based learning, not a messy world of informal process-based learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 5, 2015

Although it may sometimes focus on extending learning into the ‘informal’ part of this diagram (and thus making it somewhat formal) the fact that the ‘blend’ is part of an overall designed programme, course or initiative makes ‘blended’ primarily fall into the formal/dependent category.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 21, 2009

The Learning Tree people told me at that time that they weren’t planning to introduce any ‘new’ approaches to their training provision. We could have their face-to-face courses or nothing.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2013

Cynefin is a sense-making model – where patterns emerge from the information and data – that explains how to respond to ordered and disordered systems.

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Performance Learning Productivity

APRIL 7, 2010

Most sub-optimal performance in organisations is due to factors such as: lack of clear expectations (emphasis on the word “clear”); insufficient and untimely or even counterproductive feedback; lack of easily perceived and understood required information; inadequate tools, resources, procedures and support; inappropriate and even counterproductive (..)

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 3, 2017

In November of that year British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee together with his Belgian colleague Robert Cailliau proposed a project to develop the use of hypertext “ to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will”…. … This type of information is better familiarised.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 13, 2014

In November of that year British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee together with his Belgian colleague Robert Cailliau proposed a project to develop the use of hypertext  to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. . This type of information is better familiarised.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 8, 2010

In the wake of that innovation the concept of information and knowledge being held by the few and dispensed in structured learning events to the many collapsed. Information became ubiquitous, access became much, much easier, and the concept that ‘knowledge is power’ gave way to one of ‘access is power’.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 13, 2014

In November of that year British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee together with his Belgian colleague Robert Cailliau proposed a project to develop the use of hypertext “to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will”….… This type of information is better familiarised.

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