ID Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Rapidly decreasing shelf-life of knowledge 4. The emergent ones are those that are likely to have the greatest impact on Human Performance Improvement and Personal Knowledge Management. Duke University made headlines when it provided all incoming freshmen with their own 20 -gigabyte iPods. Growth in cloud computing 5.

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Mobile Learning Mobile iPod Wiki 166

ID Reflections

MAY 22, 2015

It is still restricted to a community of folks interested in Personal Learning Networks and Personal Knowledge Management , followers of blogs by Harold Jarche, Jane Hart, John Stepper and such. Process sharing provides deeper insight into how a task is done. Keep it brief and simple. It is a very powerful learning tool.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

On the positive front, I have been doing a lot of reading—mostly around organizational behavior, organizational development, culture and diversity, motivation and communication, and how these relate to social business and knowledge management. I’ve referenced the model here from Flat World Knowledge book on Organizational Behaviour.

Diversity Training 166

Diversity Training Community Management Culture 166

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

While we would love to think that employees will--seeing the looming complexities and unpredictability of work today--become self-driven, autonomous learners keen to acquire all the skills and knowledge required, this is not what usually happens. The approach taken is still that of “the organization will provide the training I need”.

Skills 132

Skills PKM Diversity Training Social Media 132

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Can we always depend on the experts to provide the best solution? According to Wikipedia (2007) “…an expert, more generally, is a person with extensive knowledge or ability in a particular area of study.” ~ Building Expertise, Ruth Clark Today, we need “experts” in more diverse and unknown areas than we can predict now.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

It is now common knowledge that an organization’s ability to innovate is its competitive edge in today’s economy. More importantly, are those the kind of work that will provide us with the indispensable competitive edge? I am talking about knowledge work here. Innovation itself is a term that requires some unpacking.

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Learner Diversity Training Expertise Cognitive 177

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The paragraph below taken from Harold Jarche’s post Success depends on who we work with reminded me of a post I had written some time back, the Molotov cocktail = Weak ties x complicated knowledge. Weak ties create havoc when people need to transfer tacit knowledge. I have pasted the quote below: 1. What is required is diversity!

Cognitive 165

Cognitive Diversity Training Social Networks Knowledge Worker 165

ID Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2015

One of the ways to keep on top of our game, and remain on the cutting edge of relevant skills and knowledge is to be a part of communities of practices and to focus on building and maintaining our PLNs with a deliberate intention to learn, share and collaborate. The former wouldn''t make sense without the latter.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 29, 2014

For a more holistic performance support and knowledge sharing, L&D will have to shift to enabling learning at an organizational as well as at an individual level. While courses will still have their place, the approach to course design itself will need to become more dynamic, rapid and inclusive of informal and social components.

Roles 167

Roles Social Media OER Performance Support 167

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

When “relevant experience” implying the number of years an individual has worked in the same field and the knowledge thus accumulated comes to be viewed as sacrosanct, this is a danger signal. The JDs defined the role, training provided the required skill sets, and then one was put to work. I completely agree!

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Emergent Agile Culture Diversity Training 136

ID Reflections

MAY 25, 2015

A community grows around a domain where practitioners share their insights, knowledge and doubts, the work processes. Explicit and tacit knowledge gets shared. When these individuals leave their organizations, they walk away with their tacit knowledge. Take Linux or the GitHub community for example. Their inbox is deleted.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 1, 2011

This is a quick recap and a list of the posts, articles, and books that have shaped my thinking, provided me with insights and supported or challenged my assumptions. Rendering knowledge from Cognitive Edge 14. But I have promised myself that this year I will turn more ideas into actions and will not let procrastination rule.

Cognitive 185

Cognitive Enterprise 2.0 Blogging KM 185

ID Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2010

I am re-reading Informal Learning by Jay Cross and was going through the resource links he has provided. Apart from the book, which is a must read for anyone interested in the field of learning, the resource links are gold mines of knowledge, information and insights.

Informal Learning 104

Informal Learning Resources Cognitive Social Networks 104

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

marcjrosenberg on #lsmag [link] #lrnchat The excerpts: We need context to understand complex issues and this can be provided by those we are connected to. As a consequence, tacit knowledge can be distributed as a shared, socially constructed understanding that emerges from collaboration.

Cognitive 144

Cognitive PKM News Tagging 144

ID Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2009

Point 1 Learners learn best when they are able to align the new knowledge with knowledge from the past. Conclusion #1: When designing with “love” and to have motivated learners, help learners to connect new knowledge to their pre-existing ones. Ongoing change is going to make current knowledge obsolescent.

Theory 124

Theory Learner Social Networks Learning Theory 124

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

No longer is knowledge and information tied to workplace hierarchy. In an insightful article from HBR called From the Knowledge Economy to the Human Economy , there is this telling para that reflects the organizations and workers of the future: In the human economy, the most valuable workers will be hired hearts.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Afterall, UX designers come with years of experience, expertise in a specific area,and knowledge of their subjects. And given that an organization's socialplatform is going to be their knowledge sharing and collaboration hub, it isimportant to identify the key actions a user will perform on the platform.

Community 175

Community Management Design Search 175

ID Reflections

OCTOBER 27, 2009

The first few weeks here, I did not fully appreciate the depth of this message till I came across the following video by Nick Milton of Knoco.com discussing data, information and knowledge. Knowledge without understanding is like, well, information." is providing them with capability, with know-how." Who was wrong?

Informal 110

Informal KM Social Networks Skype 110

ID Reflections

MARCH 8, 2010

This information through discussions, brainstorming sessions, collective sharing of inputs become knowledge. This knowledge drives the decision-making process. As I mulled over the points, I realized how these parameters can impact all relationships. Effective communication enables information to be distributed to the right sources.

Communication 114

Communication Information Overload Picture Analysis 114

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

When fully realized and supported, emergent learning provides autonomy, mastery and purpose to learners and agility, adaptability and resilience to organizations. It empowers learners to build their personal learning networks (PLN) and personal knowledge management (PKM) by leveraging technology to connect a distributed and diverse workforce.

Emergent 100

Emergent Organization Diversity Training Community 100

ID Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2011

Focused feedback : Coaches/trainers are at hand to provide corrective feedback and help the learners model their behaviors. Now the question remains, how will this help knowledge workers deal with complex and chaotic challenges that are unprecedented? This is precisely the aim of Adaptive Thinking.

Cognitive 136

Cognitive Diversity Training Information Overload Behavior 136

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A very mundane event that HR usually organizes in all organizations in a bid to demonstrate their attempt at engaging employees, “providing” for fun at the workplace and other such piffling stuff that no one really takes seriously. Tags: creativity Human resources Knowledge Management Gary Hamel Innovation and Idea Management.

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Innovation Expertise Knowledge Management Ideas 110

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Only then can this knowledge flow become a part of the decision-making process and enable users to take the right decision quickly. This is the proverbial organizational hive mind but someone has to enable the enterprise to make sense of this stream, separate the wheat from the chaff, and connect the dots to reveal the key patterns below.

Community 194

Community Enterprise Roles Content 194

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Most often, these will also be a lot quicker and a hell of a lot cheaper in providing the information needed than a full-fledged training program. If an organization already has a platform where the end users contribute to share information, knowledge, updates 2. Training programs may go the Conde Nast way.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 100

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?" I have pasted the question here: "In a Learning 2.0 This is not a very new question and has been doing its rounds in different forums.

Skills 100

Skills Social Networks Big Question Theory 100

ID Reflections

JULY 15, 2009

What makes PS effective is the targeted learning that it provides and the “pull” approach inherent in its definition. PS, by definition, is access to information and knowledge as we need it, when we need it. That’s how we use Google and corporate wikis and instant messenger.” When is Performance Support needed?

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Performance Support Support Performance Wiki 100

ID Reflections

APRIL 10, 2015

Organizations are fairly adept at implementing training programs, providing LMS access and checking for completion. Knowledge hoarding became one of the means of accumulating power and staying in control. Sharing of knowledge is a discretionary effort; unappreciated employees will hold back on their DE.

Social Learning 100

Social Learning Social Integrate Off-shore 100

ID Reflections

JUNE 9, 2010

select custom-built courseware, provide post-training support, measure learning effectiveness, create mentoring/coaching frameworks, create frameworks that enable community-driven learning, and create and sustain Communities of Practice. Use him as an SME and supplement it with the contextual knowledge of the insider employee.

Consulting 141

Consulting Social Networks LinkedIn Discussion 141

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Here's an excerpt from the book to give you a feel: Sentence Stems One way to help learners manage the 140 - character limit is to provide them with sentence stems — they need only to complete the thought. Thanks for the book, Jane and for continuing to share your knowledge, experience and passion.

Social Media 166

Social Media Media Wiki Blogging 166

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

Summative evaluation "provides information on the product's efficacy ( it's ability to do what it was designed to do)." Individual learner's characteristics and perceptions: This is the need each person feels for that piece of knowledge delivered in the program. Now, evaluation happens at two levels: Formative and Summative.

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ID Reflections

MAY 18, 2010

Preamble Projects are how we change the world and introduce new knowledge into our organizations (when they are done well that is - also sometime how we remove obsolete knowledge and processes). Read the post for a more detailed explanation. I have erred on the side of caution and have not named the client.

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Project Change Storyboard ILT 104

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

So provide crystal clear direction. A complex table of data maybe what they need to understand, but converting that into meaningful and impactful knowledge is the training designer’s job. The Rider stands for the anlytical mind, the Elephant is representative of our emotions and the Path is the environment one operates in.

Change 124

Change Case Study Cognitive Performance Support 124

ID Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2009

Learner empowered = requires effective “self learners” and good knowledge networkers since it involves connecting with and finding expertise 9. Can we provide tools and systems (e.g. Subject Matter Expert Location Programs, Knowledge Repositories, etc. Personalized = “Outcome is what the learner desires” 8.

Informal Learning 110

Informal Learning Informal Blended Learning Social 110

ID Reflections

JULY 15, 2009

It is not about "simplification" but about providing only the required information. When instructional content is broken down into small chunks that are yet contextually meaningful and self standing, a good designer will automatically eliminate the redundant and retain the essential. Business impact. Benefit to clie nt. ~

Case Study 100

Case Study Performance Support Training Train 100

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Each area is critical today in building an organization and an organizational culture that will not only attract the best employees but will also provide them with the necessary platform to give their best. Knowledge and skills today have a diminishing shelf life and require constant rebuilding. Training is essentially past focused.

Roles 132

Roles Agile Cognitive Attitudes 132

ID Reflections

MAY 30, 2013

Although used in the context of knowledge work, I realized it applied very well to what Umesh did. This is far removed from my earlier world of corporate workplace learning and community management but that is the subject of another post. Someone who had the gumption and courage to follow through and turn his work into his passion.

Leadership 139

Leadership Skills Job Predictions 139

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

With organizations thinking of MOOCs as a scalable and cheaper way of providing training and professional development opportunities to the workers, it is important to keep in mind a few considerations before launching a MOOC.

Cognitive 100

Cognitive Diversity Training Forum Network 100