Performance Learning Productivity

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Managing Learning?

Performance Learning Productivity

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. One of which is “if learning is managed by the learner, what will the technologies that support her look like in the next 3, 5, 10 years?” It is this. That’s down to you alone.

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MANAGERS AND MAD HATTERS: WORK THAT STRETCHES

Performance Learning Productivity

This is the third and final of three posts adapted from articles I’ve written for Inside Learning Technologies & Skills magazine. It was published and distributed in the magazine for the Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibition in London 25-26 January 2012.

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Embedding Learning in Work: The Benefits and Challenges

Performance Learning Productivity

A further 2010 study of manager development activities by Casebow and Ferguson at GoodPractice in Edinburgh, Scotland reported that informal chats with colleagues was both the most frequently used development activity and was also seen as the most effective by the majority of managers.

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Re-thinking Workplace Learning: extracting rather than adding

Performance Learning Productivity

A decade ago the Corporate Executive Board published a report detailing the findings of a study into the role managers can play in employee development. Managers need to be enabled and supported if it is to work. It can’t be managed and controlled in the way discrete training and learning injections into the workflow can be.

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Being Bold and Imagining the Different

Performance Learning Productivity

But the principal mindset and focus of the day was management and control of nature in the service of humans. It’s the natural fit for management and control. Structured learning is a relatively easy process to manage and control. So developing good L&D practices for developing managers and others should be the same.

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The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award 2020

Performance Learning Productivity

Can’t manage? Therefore, to be required, LnD shouldn’t help them learn Why do LnD still market a once and done approach to learning? Can’t sell? Learn this. Can’t comply? Learn this. Can’t coach? Learn this. Learn this. Can’t lead? Learn this.” Andrew will be presented with the award later this year in London.

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70:20:10 - A Framework for High Performance Development Practices

Performance Learning Productivity

It’s important because research over the past 40 years at least has indicated that learning that occurs outside of formal classes and courses is not only more frequent but also generally more effective than its structured and ‘managed’ counterpart. Performance support comes in many forms.