Living in Learning

JULY 3, 2013

Humor Learning About Living family LinkedIn moving Road trip U-Haul' This is another true story about the truth that can only be taught from the hearts of family when a dash of duress gets mixed into what turned out to be a learning moment. </Humor </Humor Alert> When my in-laws […].

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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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Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Tags: Continuous Learning Rants & Ramblings Video Learning LinkedIn Video in learning video readiness.

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Living in Learning

MAY 23, 2010

Sunday morning I stumbled over a post in one of the community groups I follow on LinkedIn. The question put to the community asked about the use of performance support. I had to agree, and I believe there is a purely business reason for that – it is called protecting competitive business advantage.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 8, 2010

What set me off this morning was someone whining on one of the LinkedIn groups I frequent. I hope you do not confuse passionate posturing of an idea with a radical rant, though what you read has earmarks of both. You will have to be the judge.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 8, 2009

Several of the professional groups I have joined through LinkedIn yield consistent discussion themes that register concern for the future of training. Chances are good that I have contributed to those rumors, though not with an inkling of anything resembling malicious intent.

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Living in Learning

MARCH 13, 2013

We were eating lunch on a Wednesday when the elevator music was disrupted with an urgent announcement, “This is a code yellow alert – Repeat – This is a code yellow alert!”

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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?”

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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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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Where better than Waffle House can one expect to experience humanity in all its splendor? To get the full impact, make sure you plan your visit around two in the morning or so; that way the experience is flavored appropriately with the salt of the earth.among other spices.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Training as a profession has always sort of been in a “sales” role. Selling the shift from classroom training to on-line e-learning, and then back again as a compromise to protect a draft pick and a player to be named later. We sold sexy flash-based on-line courses. We sold the need for a big honking LMS.

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Living in Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Training was never intended to support a Performer in their work context. Training is not designed to be agile enough, or flexible enough to adapt to diverse needs, or accessible enough at the moment of need to support a workforce trying to be resilient and responsive in the pursuit of flawless performance.

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Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We began to blend training with some on-line content. It was good stuff. It was sexy. It was Flash-based; top drawer content, and we wound up perpetuating performance impact shortfalls with much greater efficiency. We were deploying learning. We were not implementing learning, and there is a significant difference between the two.

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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.

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Living in Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We’ve been touting Training as a viable solution to virtually any performance problem for years. Our clients bought in. They’ve been buying in for as long as we’ve been selling it. We’ve done it well, and we’ve even started believing it ourselves to the extent that we wrap up a training event and move to the next.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 27, 2012

Moments of need are either triggered by an issue or challenge where the knowledge worker is confronted with either remembering what/how to do something and then are forced to rely upon recall knowledge. Where we would like to be is giving them an efficient resource where reference knowledge is readily accessible.

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Living in Learning

JANUARY 22, 2012

Deployment gets you to the end-of-training celebration party and the three-bite shrimp, the balloons, the creepy clowns, and the face painting.

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Living in Learning

MARCH 18, 2012

<God Alert:>This piece is not my usual rant about some aspect about corporate learning. It still is about learning, but is tagged for the Learning About Living side of the Living in Learning blog. Some might ask, “Why combine something like this in a corporate learning blog?” I in turn would ask, “How can God [.].

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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?"

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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.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2012

When Einstein defined insanity as “Continuing to do what we’ve always done and expecting different results”, he was on the money. We continue to train with hopes that some form it…some technology enhanced venue of it…some exotic blend of it…is going to produce sustained capability that produces tangible business outcomes.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 19, 2012

With all the recent press performance support is getting…make that positive press…I’m noticing that we could easily slip into a best practice of admiring the problem of what to do about it. To be a bit less sarcastic, I must clarify that admiration of the problem is NOT a best practice, but it often seems like we manage to do it best.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Performance Support is a lot more complex than a job aid. I would add that when properly integrated as an inclusive bridge between training and actual work performance there exists an inherent strategic value that up until recently was rarely considered.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Trolling through my networking groups on LinkedIn yesterday, a post caught my eye where an individual was lamenting how the disjointedness of running disparate systems compromised effective and efficient operations. The suggested solution was a desire for the creation of a unified enterprise platform to eliminate the disparity.

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Living in Learning

JULY 3, 2012

In a campaign to introduce electronic performance support system (EPSS) technology, an innovative and evolved approach to learning, chances are great that you are going to have “SELL” somebody on the idea. You might be surprised WHO will be the first to dig in their heels. Even more surprising…well maybe not…is the reason for the resistance.

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Living in Learning

JULY 1, 2012

It seems like we are always looking for something to improve training outcomes, a noble and well-intended search. In the many years I have been in this profession I confess to being part of that search.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 10, 2012

Plucking is good. It’s happening at an ever-increasing pace. A technology savvy user population is asking for it by their actions. Isn’t that reason enough to shift our content design, development, and delivery models to match the need for the population that pays the rent on our training cost center?

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 21, 2012

Two-thirds of all new job in the U.S. require post-high school education. With the rise in high school and college drop outs, the United States is scrambling to keep the attention of its students and develop a positive way to keep them involved.

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Living in Learning

MARCH 8, 2011

As I reflect on this title, I can imagine some rather extreme images springing forth in the minds of long-time training purists. I say this with confidence because the topic of facilitating learning at the edges of the ecosystem has freaked out both platform trainers and instructional design professionals before.

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Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This is an interview by Bloomfire I participated in almost two years ago that just resurfaced on their blog. I think the relevance is timely and worth sharing again for those who missed it.

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Living in Learning

APRIL 6, 2012

Upon engagement to my wife, she gave me a gift of a beautiful gold bracelet. Jewelry had never really been important to me, though that bracelet quickly became a favorite. Shortly after we were married, I remember making a comment about not owning any other jewelry beyond my wedding band, and a signet ring on my right hand.

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Social Networks LinkedIn Learning 173

Living in Learning

JULY 12, 2012

A few years ago, I am quite certain, I would have been fighting this “cloud” concept tooth and nail. There was something about having my own staff running my own servers behind my own firewall that provided a sense of security and control.

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Firewalls LMS Server Security 165

Living in Learning

MAY 3, 2012

The discovery of fire sparked [.sorry] sorry] the first social learning moment and the true application of learning. Two knuckleheads, Igg Nyte and Puut Emowt, made the discovery on a Thursday many years ago. What mattered about learning was reduced to its simplest form - what could you DO with whatever you learned.

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Living in Learning

JUNE 28, 2012

I fear the L&D function.or Training.if you choose by another name, are locked into a paralysis of tradition. Tradition yields comfort and familiarity. Comfort and familiarity yield resistance to change…and in some cases even recognition that there could actually be a “change” that offers a viable alternative.

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Living in Learning

MARCH 23, 2012

Okay…so my trigger got tripped this morning on a white paper put out by HR.Com…which, by the way, was very well done. What tripped my trigger was not what was included in the article, “An Overview of HCM Technology Deployment and Factors Influencing the Strategy, but what was left out.

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Living in Learning

JULY 9, 2012

We [Training] have been hugely successful selling the idea that improvements in performance can be driven by training. I know there are colleagues who bristle when I discount training’s impact, but my point of emphasis lays well beyond the scope of even the most excellent training product we might deliver.

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Living in Learning

JUNE 20, 2012

So.you just bought a new LMS. The sales dude/dudette left days ago with promises still echoing in your head. Your Help Desk phone rings alomost immediately after GoLive, and some knucklehead wants a report that does not come standard on the LMS. Imagine that.

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