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Demystifying Why Leadership Development Often Fails

PDG

Not Recognizing the Knowing-Doing Gap Let’s face it: a lot of new leader readiness programs don’t do enough to prepare leaders for the realities of the job. The “knowing-doing gap” refers to the disparity between what individuals know they should do and what they actually do in practice.

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Mind the Gap: How to Assess Sales Performance Gaps to Achieve Execution Excellence

PDG

Essentially, they know what to do because you’ve trained them. The question is, are they doing it? This is the knowing/doing gap. The knowing/doing gap refers to the disconnect between what we know we should do and what we actually do in practice.

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Design - Knowing Doing Gap - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Corporations need to catch up on open content - Informal Learning , September 17, 2009. What do online instructors have to know about H1N1? Knowing Doing Gap (7). Podcasting for E-Learning: Recording Audio - The E-Learning Curve , September 14, 2009. WISE Pedagogy , September 17, 2009. September 13, 2009.

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Learning Vs. Performance -- The Dichotomy

ID Reflections

Our education system had inculcated the belief that “learning” is all about gaining information and knowledge and being able to remember that long enough to answer exam questions. Today, Google and the Internet has eliminated the need to remember information. The question is, “How does this information impact us, the L&D folks”.

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A Framework For Content Curation

Learnnovators

Sure, they may be thoughtfully filtered and informatively annotated, but a hotchpotch is a hotchpotch. I should know: I’ve used them as a student, I’ve seen my peers create them, and I’ve created them myself. It’s worth remembering that education is not the provision of information; it is sense making. SUPPORT ME. EXTEND ME.

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Louder than words

E-Learning Provocateur

Performance weak spots may be (at least partly) attributable to gaps in specific capabilities; while a strengths-based approach might also be adopted, whereby an already strong capability is enhanced to drive higher performance. Cross-reference the KASAB framework to close the knowing-doing gap.

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A framework for content curation

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, they may be thoughtfully filtered and informatively annotated, but a hotchpotch is a hotchpotch. I should know: I’ve used them as a student, I’ve seen my peers create them, and I’ve created them myself. It’s worth remembering that education is not the provision of information; it is sense making.

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