Clark Quinn

AUGUST 31, 2021

On a call, our local organizer mentioned that she was leading a section of the train-the-trainers upcoming event, and was dreading trying to make it interesting. I had personal experience; last summer our neighbor was spreading the rumor that we were going to have to evacuate owing to a fire over the ridge.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2021

Whether personality, or behavior, or any other criteria, most of these are methodologically and psychometrically flawed. Hopefully you’re resistant to new technologies unless you know what they truly will do for your organization. They’re as prone to lust after VR and AR and AI as the rest of the organization.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 18, 2021

On Twitter today was a question from an organization that, frankly, puzzled me. Maybe the most important is to ensure your social media marketing person has enough knowledge of learning not to do such silly things, but I can’t assume that’s the locus of the problem. So here let me unpack several illustrative problems.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The most important thing was that there were activities underway, and people were contributing in an open, constructive, non-personal way. There’s a focus on reinventing the organization, and an important activity underway was using the Business Model Canvas as a framework to explore opportunities. It develops authentically.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 31, 2023

I’m using Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery framework for learning here. His categories of seek (search and feed), sense (interpret) and share (closely or broadly) seems like an interesting and relevant way to organize my tools. So here’s my (belated) list of top 10 tools for learning 2023.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 15, 2022

I argue that making better decisions will be more important to organizations than the ability to recite knowledge. There are other elements you want from SMEs, such as their personal interest. All are helpful information for different parts of the learning. Another trick I use is to focus on decisions.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Jane talked about how you had to walk the walk: working out loud, personal learning, coaching, etc. The learnings here move the organization forward. Experimentation is the bedrock of a learning organization, if you consolidate the learnings. First, of course, is sharing within the organization. That builds the culture.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2020

Eileen’s husband was doing research on ‘extremophiles’, organisms that survive in extreme conditions, and we were looking at biomimetic inspiration from those mechanisms. Organizations are struggling. Times were tough, and organizations were wondering how to cope. That’s what a learning organization is all about.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The intent is that the basic track has the core knowledge an L&D person should know. I’ve been on conference program committees, and know conference organizers as well. I laud that, actually, because we can’t know if a new approach or person is worthwhile without experimentation.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Apparently, an acquaintance challenged my colleague Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) model. Ideally, you’d find an organization that implements it, and documents the increase in learning. However, learning in that sense is hard to measure, because it’s personal. These are worth considering.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Not just because it’s personally empowering, but because it can and should be organizationally empowering. Nor do our organizations. And if indeed innovation is the only sustainable differentiator, this is the best investment you can make for the organization. The problem is, little is talked about how to develop it.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 2, 2023

I also take time to organize my thoughts. These are my personal processing mechanisms. Basically, it looks like I’m spending a lot of time not working. Yet, this is critical to coming up with new ideas! Diagramming things is one way I understand them. I blog (like this), for the same reason.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2016

Seriously, this is important, as the tools we use and provide through the organization impact the effectiveness with which people can work. What we’re talking about here, starting at the bottom, are the tools you personally use for learning. I woke up this morning thinking about the tools we use at various levels. Maybe OneNote?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 8, 2014

As I stated in Revolutionize Learning & Development , I believe that the necessary direction for organizations is to couple optimal performance with continual innovation. That is, using performance support when it makes sense should be part of the unit’s responsibility, even when it doesn’t develop the person.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

What you’d like is the person who comes and says “I have this problem: performance should be <desired measurement> but instead it’s only <current measurement> What steps can we take to see if you can help? ” And, of course, you should be this person too. I related this (of course ;), to L&D.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 22, 2018

I was talking with my friend and colleague Harold Jarche about how he’s expanding his valuable Personal Knowledge Mastery to teams and at the organizational level. Senge, in The Learning Organization talked about mental models as one of his 5 disciplines. Models are our value to our field and organizations.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 25, 2021

So what’s a person to do? This may seem like more competencies to add on, but the goal is to reduce the emphasis (and workload) on courses, and build an organization that continues to learn. In work with IBSTPI , where we’re defining competencies, we’re recognizing that different folks cut up roles differently.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It’s certainly been an interesting year, and a good one personally. Hey, if the CIA can deal with it, your organization can. With the ITA in particular we have been successful in getting some traction in this area, and hope to help more organizations come to grips in the coming year. The opportunities are big.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 22, 2014

I like what Harold Jarche did about tagging his list with the steps of his Seek-Sense-Share model for Personal Knowledge Mastery , so I’m adding that as well. Keynote: creating presentations is another way I organize my thoughts to share. OmniOutliner: another way of organizing my thoughts. In no particular order: 1.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 26, 2021

Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) , for instance, is a brand for a framework. I use it as the organizing framework when I talk about mobile (really, the performance ecosystem): Augmenting formal learning. Adaptive and neuro- are two examples of buzzphrases that are open to interpretation but sound intriguing.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 21, 2019

I’ve argued strongly that we need to do deeper learning design before we worry about tarting it up with personalization/adaptation, VR/AR, AI, etc. For one, you need the foundational knowledge, and it really needs to be shared and agreed in the organization. And we’ve converging evidence about what it is.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2016

In the interests of understanding where the market is, I’m looking to benchmark where organizations are. Please feel free to respond and circulate to those you know in other organizations (but try to only have one person from your org fill it out).

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Personally, documenting what you’re doing serves as a reminder to yourself and awareness for others. In a Miranda organization , no one is going to share. Instead, you need the elements of a learning organization : the environment has to value diversity, be open to new ideas, provide time for reflection, and most of all be safe.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 22, 2018

So, I’m wrestling with how to characterize useful changes in an organization. implement coaching, show-your-work, support curation, etc), and want to map them to the changes you’ll get in the organization. That is, tactics that move organizations into directions that create learning organizations.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2021

As has become all too common, someone decided to point me to some posts for their organization. That’s personalization, no? Apparently, interest was sparked by a previous post of mine where I’d complained about microlearning. So here’s yet another post about more marketing malarkey.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 24, 2016

In it, we work through the elements of the Performance Ecosystem and not only make the case for, but workshop a personalized roadmap for your organization. As things move forward, there’s an opportunity for L&D to lead the charge to the adaptive organization!

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 19, 2016

I’m a fan of Harold Jarche’s Seek-Sense-Share (SSS) model for Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM). Now, the model of self-regulated learning I was reading about talks about personal goals, learning actions, and evaluation. Similarly, the results of personal sensing and the feedback from sharing inform the evaluation.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 24, 2016

In it, we work through the elements of the Performance Ecosystem and not only make the case for, but workshop a personalized roadmap for your organization. As things move forward, there’s an opportunity for L&D to lead the charge to the adaptive organization!

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Clark Quinn

MAY 5, 2020

It’s one person who gets it. And , I think it changes for each organization depending on their context in so many factors. I haven’t seen a systematic move towards a more enlightened L&D. You see one inspired individual either hired in, or promoted to have the opportunity. And it can be in any industry, anywhere.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 20, 2019

As a person, on principle you’re not supposed to compare yourself to others, but to your own progress. The same is true for organizations. This instrument is fully elaborated in the Revolutionize L&D book , and goes into detail on each of the twelve rows. And that was my response to the query. How to set your benchmarks?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Coupled with tools that support learning streams, personal learning could be boosted. They’re pull as well, but for one definition of microlearning (that of streaming small bits over time to develop, e.g. slow learning), they could be a valuable part of personal development. And I think this could become an interesting area.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If an organization is on social media, and increasingly they should be, it needs to be interactive. This is accomplished in several ways: point to what the organization is doing. point to interesting things outside of the organization. These require resources, essentially a person or persons who handle these duties.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 6, 2013

At lunch last week with my colleague Jay Cross, we riffed on the most important word was for learning in the organization. I chose ‘meaningful’, he went with ‘experiential’ They’re both important, but I thought I’d tease them out a bit.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the Coherent Organization model that we (the ITA ) came up with, it talks about how work teams are fed by and feed up to communities as they too feed up to and are fed from social networks. So, at the center are people, the individuals who constitute the organization. And while this is all good, it may not be completely clear.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

If we adapt Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery (or PKM ), which is about Seek-Sense-Share as a mechanism to grow our own abilities, to organizations, we can see a different model. It’s about flows of information, which can’t happen if you’re in a Miranda Organization. Perhaps an OKM?

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Another is how it might play out in the organization. I do hope we can take the opportunity to include a sufficient level of challenge, and the opportunity to personalize it, rather than keep it generic. For instance, we should be asking personalization questions afterward (whether via system or person).

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 25, 2011

Increasingly, organizations and providers are creating APIs to their environments, which allow other organizations to add value in ways that expand their ecosystem. And, from the personal efficacy department, being able to find and use these extensions is a new skill.

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