The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Much of evaluation in organizations is focused on making incremental change in programs when what is needed might be redesign of the program and the organization as a whole. The current economic crisis presents an opportunity for all organizations to re-examine what they are doing and how they do it. Schambra.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 27, 2015

E-Learning 2.0 Reinventing Organizational Learning. Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations. Convergence in Learning. Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why? Learning Communities. E-Learning Communities. Wikis that Work: Effective Wiki Practices for Virtual Learning Communities.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

For years we’ve been hearing the term “learning organization” used to describe a company or other entity. It is usually used as a compliment: being such an organization is a good thing. Learning organizations and the people in them learn constantly from everything they do. And, in fact, many do.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 17, 2010

They answer our questions with the implicit understanding that their answers will be used to make the organization more successful and a better place to work. make the manager will look bad), what employees will say about the data, and how people outside of the organization will interpret the findings.

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Thinkdom

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By planning and budgeting effectively, you can ensure that your custom eLearning initiatives are not only cost-effective but also high in quality and engagement, addressing the specific needs of your organization. A report by the Brandon Hall Group highlights that organizations employing custom eLearning observe a 60% higher engagement rate.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 3, 2010

As we come out of the recession and companies prepare for hiring and growth, the level of trust in a company’s culture will have a lot to say about whether that organization will be successful or not. Without trust, employees become what Judy Bardwick, in her article titled "The High Cost of Mistrust," calls actively disengaged.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

So too with training and learning in organizations. . . Tags: Organizational Learning Training Training Impact alignment blindspot c-suite learning training. When driving down the freeway, you can't depend on the driver of the car next to you to see you as you approach on the side.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 9, 2010

The best run nonprofits have multiple sources of income so that the loss of one of these streams does not prevent the organization from achieving its mission. This creates trust in the organization and makes it much less likely that money can be used in unscrupulous ways. Transparency is vital.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Measurement is not the problem per se (although I agree that there is much room for improvement in how we measure learning and performance in organizations). Tags: Evaluation Organizational Learning Training Impact Larry O'Donnell. If you watched the new reality TV show “Undercover Boss”. They measure everything.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

He describes his blog in   this way: eLearning Learning   is a collection of blog posts and articles all around eLearning.   It uses the Browse My Stuff technology to create this topic hub. You can find the same “Browse My Stuff” search tool for my blog in the lower left column.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 10, 2010

Most organization change efforts fail because they lack clarity of focus, leadership, a sense of urgency, a solid plan, preparation, the right people, the right resources, execution and follow-through, measurement and feedback, and organizational learning. This was the message that I heard from Clinton O.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 20, 2010

Complacency will set in if the organization is not vigilant, especially, as in the case of Toyota, where the accolades and awards were flowing to them for several decades. Tags: Leadership Organization Culture Organizational Learning lean manufacturing quality The Toyota Way Toyota.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 16, 2010

The authors say that in many organizations it’s not the problems that get them into trouble, it’s the paradoxes. Partner with another organization? Paradoxes, on the other hand, are the hard core contradictions in organization life that cannot be resolved—they must be vigilantly balanced. Extend our current product line?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

But there is another question just as vexing for nonprofits (and all organizations, for that matter). Which should they do first: improve the way the organization is managed, or clarify the goals and intended outcomes of the organization? It’s Chris Argyris’ and Donald Schon's “double-loop learning”.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

This learning "alliance" between manager and employee is fundamental to ensuring that learning makes a difference for the organization. The other organizational factors that ensure business results from learning are alignment, anticipation, application, and accountability.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Hagel, Brown, and Davison propose the development of “creation spaces” that help people interact around major performance problems of an organization. As Hagel, Brown, and Davison suggest, and I have written previously , KM alone will not have much impact on an organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

In an article for BusinessWeek titled, “Ten Management Practices to Axe,” Liz Ryan identifies ten popular practices of organizations that they should stop doing. Organizations should strive for a culture in which employees are receiving feedback regularly and frequently and are not dependent on an annual or semi-annual survey.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

In order to align training efforts with the strategic goals of an enterprise and create effective instruction, organizations need to link strategic goals with training delivery goals and methods. What do the learners need to know to support the goals of the organization? Tags: industry.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most organizations have many different customers but resources should be dedicated to the most important customer. . Organizations often track too many measures which dilutes the value of the process. Employees need to know when their initiatives are aligned with the strategic direction of the organization and when they are not.

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Google Wave - Social Media Resources - Best of eLearning Learning , November 10, 2009. DevLearn 2009: Catch the WAVE: Google WAVE and e-Learning Applications , November 12, 2009. Organizational Learning (9). Put your learners on a diet - consider a pull-based learning approach , November 6, 2009.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Management of any organization, large, medium, or small, has a critical role to play in the training and development of employees. Small companies, especially food retailers like Zingerman’s, need employees to be constantly learning, but, at the same time, cannot afford to waste training dollars.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Are we measuring what really matters in organizations? ROI, market share, profit margin, cost savings, EPS, P/E ratio, EBITDA, and employee job satisfaction are common measures in business organizations today. While these are relatively easy to measure, the question we should be asking ourselves is, “Is this what we want to know?”

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

So why are organizations resistant to involving senior leaders in supporting learning? Tags: Leadership Development Organizational Learning Training Impact 5As Framework business results McKinsey. Do these companies enjoy wasting 75% to 80% of their investment in employees? .

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Docebo

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The following is part two of an excerpt from a knowledge brief by Aberdeen Group : the brief discusses the role that technology plays in the knowledge creation process and the ways in which Learning 3.0 concepts can help accelerate the “spiral” of knowledge creation in your organization. Socialization: Tacit-to-Tacit. vs. 10.1%).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The problem seems to be culture and leadership of the organization. If some people in the organization know of a problem but management doesn’t do anything about it, there must be systemic barriers to communication and problem solving. Organizational effectiveness is more than a consistently high quality product.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

I referred to supporting the activities that we find in natural learning, for both formal and informal learning. The goal is to align our organized support with our learners to optimize the outcome. However, real learning involves research, design, problem-solving, creativity, innovation, experimentation, etc.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 5, 2010

They expect that the results will be interpreted competently and will influence decisions in the organization. If an organization cannot provide an opportunity for feedback and reflection and does not intend to use the data for decision-making, management should not conduct the survey. It’s not a job for amateurs! 

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 19, 2010

By “story”, I mean the narrative of how the organization, other people, and events influenced a change in attitudes and behavior and how that change affected business results.     Tags: Evaluation Organizational Learning evaluation learning measurement research.

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Appsembler

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Choosing the Right System : Decisions should be based on organizational learning needs, with LMS for content delivery and LRS for detailed data tracking. Emerging Trends : Trends in both LMS and LRS technologies include AI integration, personalized learning, and immersive technologies like VR/AR.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 11, 2014

Is it Google Glass – will your organization use it? Learners will need new literacies: Social networking Privacy maintenance Identity management Creating and organizing content Reusing and repurposing Filtering and selecting Self presentation Transliteracy (Working and communicating across many platforms, twitter/fb/email/etc.)

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 6, 2010

With my colleagues in the Internet Time Alliance , we’re looking for organizations that know they want to leverage the power of social media to develop a collective intelligence infrastructure, but need assistance. Tags: strategy. Naturally, I welcome your participation and assistance in any of the above!

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2018

We make many assumptions about organizational learning. On the surface we seem to know what organizational learning is: People attend programs or complete e-learning modules, they learn something new and they somehow become better. Most of them are wrong. The reality is that content is now a commodity.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 22, 2010

Today, I met some wonderful folks at at Learning Tree International's Learning Leader's Forum. Here are some ideas for selling social media for learning. Here is a link to the Facebook page of Learning in 3D. Tags: Out and About. What is one technique you can borrow from another industry to add to your toolkit?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

In the Internet Time Alliance chat, yesterday, we were discussing the apparently difficultly some are seeming to have with the necessary mind shifts to comprehend the benefits of social media for organizational learning. Tags: social strategy. It seems to me that there are 3 roles and each has an associated shift.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Organizational learning, however, seems to have done almost the opposite. This is the perspective that drives the vision of moving the learning organization role from ‘training’ to learning facilitator. The outcome should be better learning for all.

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Paradiso Solutions

DECEMBER 22, 2022

However, the cost is always a key factor for anything else that has a price tag. This is particularly valid for significant things in life, such business technology solutions like learning management systems. Depending on the learning requirements of your organization, Paradiso LMS can be modified. 1 800 513 5902.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2016

Co-creating organizational culture can reinvigorate organizations by fully engaging employees, improving performance and increasing productivity. Healthy organizational culture often has clear guiding principles or values, which help employees thrive in today’s ever-changing world. And what are our team’s guiding principles?

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