Performance Learning Productivity

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Managing Learning?

Performance Learning Productivity

Donald Taylor recently published an article titled ‘ What does ‘LMS’ mean today ?’. Learning can only be managed by the individual in whose head the learning is occurring. But they can’t manage the learning process for you. In it Donald posited something I’ve been advocating for years. It is this.

PKM 210
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Heading towards high performance

Performance Learning Productivity

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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The Need to Adapt to the Speed of Change or Die: lessons for L&D from the retail industry

Performance Learning Productivity

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.

Lesson 204
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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

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

ILT 174
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Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises

Performance Learning Productivity

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. LMS technology has provided a big step forward here.

Exercise 199