Living in Learning

JULY 29, 2018

This point is known as “premature destination”, that moment where we think we’re ready to decide but are not actually at a state of readiness to make an informed decision. . If we’re already considering the potential mix of destination solutions, then the journey must’ve been successful, and we’re only left to decide where to begin, right?

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Living in Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This “new information” represents different conversations within L&D, from leadership to individual contributor roles, as well as operational stakeholders. The diversity of optimizing an ecosystem with multiple, interdependent microsystems with training solutions will not sustain workforce performance at Point-of-Work.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Leadership Performance Support Conversation 100

Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The time is upon us to converge actionable information and insight with the moment of need and at the Point-of-Work. This is not a training issue, nor is it a job aid or an instruction set, it’s sharing of human wisdom and intelligence.

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Issue Instructional Instruction Job 100

Living in Learning

MAY 10, 2019

This may be over simplified, but these elements of knowledge will inform a decision regarding Productivity Acceleration Technology that will be as brilliantly planned and executed 18-months down the road as it was 30-days after GoLive.

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Technology Assessment System Productivity 100

Living in Learning

JUNE 7, 2019

By now content curation is a well-known activity that is credited for saving time in the search, retrieval and distribution of bulk knowledge/information.

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Productivity Product SharePoint Knowledge Worker 100

Living in Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

L&D owns a monster up-front search task to allow research and curation of source content for training…we read and watch videos…we cut & paste…we use SnagIt…we rewrite…we share documents to collaborate with colleagues and/or approvers/SMEs…we glean roughly 2% actionable information after confirming value and relevance.we

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Engineering SnagIt Performance Support Performance 100

Living in Learning

JANUARY 4, 2017

Is learning informal, formal, non-formal, dynamic, continuous, micro, bursted, non-linear, linear, asynchronous, bi-synchronous, tri-synchronous…where will it end? We should get nuts over all the labels.

Micro-Learning 113

Micro-Learning Synchronous Asynchronous Performance Support 113

Living in Learning

APRIL 1, 2010

The whole thing went down on a Thursday morning when an informal learning moment went social. Tags: Continuous Learning Rants & Ramblings formal learning informal learning social learning. Igg Nyt, the same caveman that discovered the virtues of fire, gets credit for sparking [sorry] the first social learning event.

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Social Learning Social Tagging Informal Learning 113

Living in Learning

MAY 19, 2010

With the rapid shift to informal learning, the LMS is being dethroned as the center of the learning systems universe. Tags: Continuous Learning Performer Support EPSS informal learning learning ecosystem LMS performer support work context.

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LMS Performance Support Tagging Informal Learning 100

Living in Learning

JANUARY 4, 2017

Is learning informal, formal, non-formal, dynamic, continuous, micro, bursted, non-linear, linear, asynchronous, bi-synchronous, tri-synchronous…where will it end? We should get nuts over all the labels.

Micro-Learning 100

Micro-Learning Synchronous Asynchronous Performance Support 100

Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

One uses water.and the other holds the new hire down and administers enough information at a continuous pace so they get the overwhelming sensation of drowning. Is there a difference between your onboarding process and the process of waterboarding? Which one do you put your new hires through?

Informal 100

Informal Performance Support Assessment Change 100

Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

One uses water.and the other holds the new hire down and administers enough information at a continuous pace so they get the overwhelming sensation of drowning. Is there a difference between your onboarding process and the process of waterboarding? Which one do you put your new hires through?

Informal 0

Informal Performance Support Assessment Change 0

Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tags: Continuous Learning Discovery & Consulting Learning Ecosystems future of learning informal learning learning ecosystem LinkedIn work context.

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Roles Simulations Social Networks LinkedIn 145

Living in Learning

AUGUST 27, 2012

Given the amount of information we all have to deal with daily and the documented loss of up to 85% of knowledge gained from training within three weeks, it is no wonder mistakes happen. Where we would like to be is giving them an efficient resource where reference knowledge is readily accessible.

Portal 200

Portal Performance Support Performance Knowledge Worker 200

Living in Learning

JULY 21, 2009

I follow several learning-oriented blogs on a regular basis, and I have witnessed numerous conversations about formal versus informal learning. Discussions range from determining impact to defining strategies around integrating informal learning into a formal mindset. Does it matter whether the learning is formal or informal?

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Learner Diversity Training CLO Performance Support 100

Living in Learning

JANUARY 4, 2010

He also noted that there was a dramatic increase in the use of informal learning. Training organizations will not keep pace with that trend unless their discovery efforts include the work context where informal learning opportunities surface.

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Instructional Design Consulting Tagging Association 100

Living in Learning

JANUARY 1, 2010

He also noted that there was a dramatic increase in the use of informal learning. Training organizations will not keep pace with that trend unless their discovery efforts include the work context where informal learning opportunities surface.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Consulting Tagging Association 100

Living in Learning

AUGUST 8, 2009

Information – capability supported through just-in-time informal learning venues. Training has company – information and knowledge – in this world of learning we live in. The internet is open 24/7 and by virtue of that, so is access to information and knowledge. The scope of continuous learning includes training.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Compliance Training Instructional Design Sun 100

Living in Learning

AUGUST 6, 2009

Josh also shared that his company’s research showed a dramatic increase in the use of informal learning. That tells me informal or non-formal learning are not flotsam. It is a “formalization” of informal learning, or to use Lance’s term – non-formal learning. What they are finding is not training per se.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Diversity Training Social Networks Training 100

Living in Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2009

The Role of Informal Learning – Application & Implementation. We embed task-relevant job aids (PSOs – informal learning tools) into the bear’s workflow. We practice using them in task-relevant simulations with stated intent that these are the same informal tools for use in the field…err…the woods. Training complete!

Simulations 100

Simulations Social Networks Training Train 100

Living in Learning

JULY 31, 2009

Too many pundits have been pontificating that there is a shift underway – a shift from formal training to informal learning. It is very true informal learning is dramatically increasing, and it is true that the increase is taking place outside of classrooms and online learning venues. I beg to differ. It is NOT a shift.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Training Train Instructional Design 100

Living in Learning

JULY 12, 2009

What I am suggesting is re-use of PSOs in both formal training venues and in informal Performer Support venues. Well-intended collaboration in this form has the potential to spread incorrect information – with great agility – and who knows what business risk goes with it. What is Performer Support? Can you say “Wikipedia”?

Performance Support 100

Performance Support Agile Support Performance 100

Living in Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Have you ever explained something to someone who is either hearing it for the first time or is still trying to get their head wrapped around the concept? You know how they will nod slowly in seeming agreement while looking off into the ether and saying dreamily, “Yeah…” really, really slowly?”

Performance Support 237

Performance Support Support Performance Sound 237

Living in Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Last week [October 25th] I had the distinct privilege of sitting in on the Tin Can API break-out session that was presented by Aaron Silvers of ADL. I’m not sure of his exact title, but his role was in a leadership capacity on the Tin Can API project. His business card says “the Beard”…and while that was accurate, I still don’t know his real title.

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SCORM ADL Leadership Project 220

Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2012

Dramatically increased urgency to remain competitive, regardless of business specialty, has come upon us in the form of continuous velocity – of continuous demands for flawless performance – of continuous demands for agility to adapt to an ever-changing competitive and regulatory work environment.

Solution 203

Solution Performance Support Agile Training 203

Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

The type of learning that is rapidly trending upward is informal learning. Training industry pundit Josh Bersin shared research during “The Future of the Business of Learning” that indicated the rapid increase in the use of informal learning. The shift is on, and we find ourselves either pushed or pulled into the work context.

Performance Support 113

Performance Support Design Support Instructional Design 113

Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Integrating Performance Support (PS) as part of a corporate learning strategy is one of the toughest sales we will ever have to make. The advent of Experience API [a.k.a. Tin Can], becoming a reality in early 2013, is turning the conversation from, "Do we really need to go there?" to a more urgent dialog of "Why didn't we see this coming?"

Performance Support 180

Performance Support Support Performance Integrate 180

Living in Learning

AUGUST 19, 2012

Paradigm shift? Methinks this evolution is going to make more noise than a dramatic shift of thinking. My only hope is that training organizations hear the noise and embrace the implications of new skills and integration of learning @ the point of work before they hear another sound – the firing squad blasting away at their training budget.

Performance Support 186

Performance Support Support Performance Budget 186

Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Relevant communities of practice or interest are excellent venues to accomplish both push and pull of relevant information that supports knowledge retention and serves as fertile ground for the ultimate reward of harvesting knowledge and best practices that otherwise would remain locked in the heads and hearts of top performers.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Performance Support Training Train 100

Living in Learning

MARCH 3, 2011

I have been writing for months on the topic of “convergence”, often referring to it as an impending collision between two business-critical moments – learning need and flawless human performance in the work context.

Business 140

Business Training Train Performance Support 140

Living in Learning

JULY 24, 2009

Josh Bersin, one of the Industry Perspective panelists described a dramatic shift toward the integration of more informal learning. I am serious, it truly scares me, and it should scare every training organization that is not in a position to support a continuous learning environment.

Compliance Training 100

Compliance Training Performance Support Learning Environment Classroom 100

Living in Learning

AUGUST 14, 2009

In the first hour-long segment, an Industry Perspectives panelist, Josh Bersin made an observation that validated one significant trend in particular – the rapid increase in the use of informal learning. Popular phrases like “just-in-time” learning, or as I like to call it, Performer Support, fall under the category of learning informally.

Instructional Design 170

Instructional Design ADDIE Blended Learning Design 170

Living in Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2009

To cover those unplanned moments of learning need, our jobs extend beyond the training role to that of supporting informal learning downstream from formal classroom or online transactions. That is a perfect example of the fifth learning moment of need – when things go wrong – and not covered by my prior knowledge and skills.

Performance Support 100

Performance Support Performance Training Train 100

Living in Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2009

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Technology 100

Technology LMS Social Media Learning Environment 100

Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Road Map – What is the plan to communicate, prepare, inform, equip, sell, train, and support this Change event? - Sponsorship – Which leader is willing to commit to the change, be accessible and visible to the organization and the Change team? Mobilization – What resources need to be engaged to execute the road map?

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Change Leadership Management Metrics 113