Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 23, 2015

It shows the relationship between relative value and relative autonomy as they relate to different approaches to learning in the modern workplace. Learning in the Modern Workplace’ Model Jane’s diagram shows the increasing value that can be released through exploiting learning opportunities beyond ‘the course’ – or the curriculum.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning. He has been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010).

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JUNE 27, 2016

These also drive our learning patterns. And our ability to learn continuously the way we do has underpinned our success and our creativity throughout history. Recent research has demonstrated that we not only learn from cradle to grave but that we were all learning even as babies in the womb, too.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 7, 2009

It’s generally accepted that most of the learning that occurs within our organisations takes place outside formal training and learning events. The majority of our learning comes from the new and different experiences we have in our daily work. Of the three actions that have most impact, two involve experiential learning.

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DECEMBER 10, 2016

Knowledge was held by the few and education was deeply entwined in the oral tradition. Rote learning was the way to get ahead. Knowledge is openly and freely available and education is a complex process of reading, listening, finding, sense-making, sharing and doing. A minority of people could read.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 28, 2010

Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. Most learning vendors tout their ‘expertise in instructional design’ as a key reason as to why we should engage them to produce learning content. And ‘action’ is the key word.

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MAY 1, 2014

ASTD data suggests US companies spent $164billion on employee learning and development in 2012 saying that ‘ despite a continuously changing economic environment, organizations remain committed to training and development’. Training as a panacea Most learning and training professionals now understand that training is not a universal panacea.

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JULY 5, 2019

This post first appeared in Internet Time Alliance News on July 5, 2019 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.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 9, 2010

Charles Jennings argues that the adage 'access to knowledge is power' is more fitting in today's information-swamped world. " Other organisations have used this collaborative knowledge sharing extremely effectively. Wikipedia created a transparent knowledge creation environment by allowing open discussion and online collaboration.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 22, 2009

These turbulent economic times have not been kind to two of the large publishers of catalogues and journals - Reader's Digest and Learning Tree International. Learning Tree has been around since 1974. Learning Tree International's Approach Learning Tree International recently published its F3Q09 earnings. million ($1.5

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 30, 2009

There is an argument that we all need to learn less if we want to know more. The ‘learning’ referred to here is what we know as formal structured learning activities - classes, courses, programmes, and eLearning. Even if you were tested and proved that you had ‘learned’ the processes at the end of the training.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 22, 2011

Last month I took part in the iVentiv Executive Knowledge Exchange event in New York. The two days of roundtable discussion were focused on ‘learning futures’. There were plenty of good conversations, some case studies, and lots of idea sharing and thoughts around innovation and the future of learning in organisations.

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JULY 10, 2017

Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning. He been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010).

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 7, 2014

At the other end of the continuum are those that believe their success, and the success of others, comes from hard work, learning, and persistence. New Knowledge and Crack Cocaine Gary Marcus is another professor of psychology who has spent years studying human cognitive development. This is an interesting theory, but so what?

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 16, 2013

Is it because you can ‘see the cut of their jib’ or you can assess their knowledge and honesty far better by looking them in the face? Especially if they can gain that knowledge and expertise more easily and without leaving their desk or workflow. The world of learning and development has also changed. I think not.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 24, 2013

Others use it more strategically as a way to help them rethink and reposition their wider learning philosophies. They simply remind us of the facts above – that the majority of learning and development comes through experiential and social learning in the workplace (the ‘70’ and ‘20’) rather than through formal classes and courses (the ‘10’).

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 31, 2016

What’s the Link with Learning & Development? This is understandable because many of today’s learning and development practices emerged during the second half of the 20th century. It was believed that if we removed people from their day-to-day work they could ‘focus on learning’ better. Knowledge and skills are not enough.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 20, 2014

The researchers (possibly on work experience) declared that “ 50:26:24 is the average learning mix in most companies right now ”. The report of the 50:26:24 survey went on to say: “It’s widely accepted that the 70:20:10 model is the most effective learning blend for business, but getting to that perfect mix can be a challenge.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 24, 2017

In this post, Totara Learning's Chief Commercial Officer Lars Hyland speaks to Charles Jennings. Charles is a co-founder of the 70:20:10 Institute , as well as a leading thinker and practitioner in learning, development and performance”. We are able to provide rich learning opportunities to lots of people located anywhere.” “I’m

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 21, 2015

Steve Wheeler ( @timbuckteeth ) explained the #Blimage Challenge this way: “You send an image or photograph to a colleague with the challenge that they have to write a learning related blog post based on it. So what sense and inspiration could I possibly draw from this psychedelic image and make meaningful on a learning blog post?

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JULY 28, 2016

Yet one of the most useful tools for effective learning and development is reflection. Critical reflection is one of the four fundamental ways in which we learn and improve. This holds true for learning in the workplace and in life. As the late professor Allan Tough said ‘most of the learning is under the waterline’.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Despite, or possibly because of, his own irregular early education he focused on learning as an important activity in life. Shaw and Work-Based Learning I recently came across Shaw’s quote about sensibility and his tailor again in Joseph Raelin’s book ‘ Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace ’.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

“It all boils down to learning, but not the sort of learning you experienced at school. No, this is learning as a life skill. You’re learning all the time, taking in new information and making sense of it. You learn from experience, from conversations with peers, and from the school of hard knocks.

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AUGUST 13, 2016

Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning. He been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010).

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2016

Firstly, we know that learning is a powerful and continuous process that occurs daily at work and throughout life. Courses may help with the basics, or to refresh our knowledge, but courses alone won’t deliver high performance. Secondly, we also know that context is vital for effective learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 20, 2015

Tom is a rocket scientist and helps other helps rocket scientists learn their stuff. Recently Tom wrote a series of blogs titled ‘ Ten Things I Believe About Workplace Learning ’. People aren’t hired to learn, they’re hired to increase productivity or capability. That’s the nature of human learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 19, 2009

Many Learning & Development managers spend a lot of their time thinking about ways in which they can make their departments more effective and provide real value to the organisation. The vast majority of learning occurs under their watch in the workplace. Ensure projects provide learning. It’s a good question to ask.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations. Efficiency can be improved in almost every case by changing focus from ‘learning’ to ‘performance’. Is it worthwhile?

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 18, 2010

I read a piece written by Kate Graham of e2train on Thursday and it started me thinking about the ‘real learning versus managed learning’ debate. We shouldn’t confuse what L&D/Training departments spend a lot of their time on with real learning. I don’t want anyone to get me wrong. I like Kate a lot.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 20, 2013

It really is the best of times and the worst of times for learning professionals. The findings make salutary reading for any CLO, learning leader or L&D professional. Equally, their managers reported that they, too, were happy with individual learning events or interventions (79% were either satisfied or very satisfied).

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 7, 2014

I’ve recently read Clark Quinn’s excellent new ‘Revolutionize Learning & Development’ book. There are some observations and suggestions in here that get to the heart of the issues around the fact that our approaches to building capability through learning need a radical rethink. Learning as simply a means to improve performance.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 5, 2015

The term ‘blended learning’ first appeared in the late-1990s when web-based learning solutions started to become more widely used and were integrated on one way or another with face-to-face methods. There are many other examples of ‘blending’ learning stretching back into the past, too. University of Salford, UK.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2013

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with seeing how other organisations achieve their results and trying to learn from them. When we’re dealing with human and organisational learning and performance we’re dealing with highly complicated and complex systems. What’s wrong with that, then?” you may ask. That is simply bowing to determinism.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 3, 2017

(Repost and update from August 2014) Many may not have noticed it at the time, but the world of learning changed in 1990. And for Organisational Learning? The Web has allowed us to totally redefine our traditional learning models. The Collaborative Age requires collaborative mindsets to drive collaborative learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 13, 2014

We may not have noticed it at the time, but the world of learning changed in 1990. And for Organisational Learning? The Web has allowed us to totally redefine our traditional learning models. It has allowed us to reach beyond content-rich learning approaches and focus on experience-rich learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 13, 2014

Many may not have noticed it at the time, but the world of learning changed in 1990. And for Organisational Learning? The Web has allowed us to totally redefine our traditional learning models. It has allowed us to reach beyond content-rich learning approaches and focus on experience-rich learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 8, 2010

I was recently involved in a discussion about 21st Century learning skills in one of the LinkedIn Groups. That being the case, it’s probably worthwhile reflecting on the changes that have impacted our training/learning departments over the past 10 years. I’ve posted that article here, with some changes and updates. So, what’s changed?

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