Clive on Learning

MAY 21, 2013

In this case, we''ll use an extract from The New Learning Architect : It is nothing new to be told that training should be aligned to the needs of the business, but that doesn''t mean that it ''goes without saying'' or is ''common sense''. Performance is influenced by a lot more than skill and knowledge. transformation'

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

With the economic downturn in full swing (assuming, that is, that downturns can swing) and training budgets as ever looking vulnerable as the first candidate for cuts, I'm beginning to hear once more that well-honed argument that training should be regarded as an investment and not an expense. As if that was all there was to it!

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Having spent the past 25 years advocating the greater use of online tools and resources for education and training (not to mention many other aspects of our lives), I've met my fair share of opposition and have to admit that I've been frustrated at how slowly we have responded to the opportunity. I needn't have worried! Ask yourself.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2012

If your manager shows little or no interest in the training you are doing, then probably so will you. The data was collected from an online survey issued three months after the completion of training, and focuses on the degree to which the transfer of learning has taken place and the effect this has had on performance.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It also puts a smile on the face of the finance director, because it’s so cheap, at least when there are lots of people who require training. As we’ve seen, they must deliver in terms of performance. But blends have to be effective as well as cheap and flexible.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 26, 2010

In a rare training-related article in People Management magazine, Evaluating Performance Gain from Training , my attention was drawn to an interesting study conducted by training outsourcing specialists KnowledgePool , with input from more than 10,000 learners and their managers over a three year period.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2013

Budgets for training are flat or reducing. Managers are finding it harder to release their staff for days at a time to attend training programmes. Travel budgets are under pressure making it harder for participants to travel to central training locations. We start by exploring the need for transformation. transformation'

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Clive on Learning

JULY 16, 2013

Last week I reported on Towards Maturity''s latest study, Reinvigorating Compliance Training. The study showed clearly what a hole we have got ourselves into with e-learning compliance training. Over and above knowledge and skills, what else needs to be in place in the work environment if performance is going to change?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2012

In some respects m-learning is no big deal, because mobile devices are already ubiquitous and essential performance aids. Up until now it has been very hard to provide performance support to these people. The end result of all this won’t always be learning, but it will be enhanced performance and surely that’s what really matters.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Charles describes how the regional training operations were run as “fiefdoms, all in competition with each other. A drive for volume rather than value – essentially they were running a training fulfilment service. Charles knew that this body needed to be populated primarily by key stakeholders in l&d, not by HR and training people.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 6, 2013

In July, the Learning and Performance Institute published an initial report summarising the results of some 983 self-assessments carried out in the previous six months against their Capability Map. It doesn''t help that much of the training that is available for trainers only reinforces the old model and slows up change.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2013

Top-down learning Top-down learning occurs because organisations want their employees to perform effectively and efficiently and they appreciate that this depends, at least in part, on them possessing the appropriate knowledge and skills. Bottom-up learning Bottom-up learning occurs because employees also want to perform.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2011

Training is not education. In most cases the end goal is for the learner to be able to perform a task effectively and efficiently, rather than to acquire knowledge. It captures the idea perfectly in plain language. So what are the implications?Training Knowledge is useful, but only so far as it supports this goal.As

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In this profile, we look at how on-demand learning can be integrated with formal training to provide the basis for a highly-successful software launch. He ultimately became the training lead for the launch of the system. The problem was how to get 1600 employees trained in eight weeks.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

There has been a realisation, I believe, that courses have failed to deliver in terms of real performance change and that there's much more to learning at work than sitting in a classroom. Pretty well all employers need to know for sure that certain learning has taken place (or at least training, which is not the same thing of course).

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

He leads a small team responsible for designing and developing highly-technical training programmes for IT professionals among both Oracle’s employees and their customers. Such long courses might seem a distant memory for many l&d departments but, as Bill says, “These are the folks that have to be trained.”

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 14, 2013

The most obvious examples are classroom courses and on-the-job training sessions, but also in this category we must place the use of the telephone and live online tools, such as instant messaging, Skype and virtual classrooms. It allows a learner to get speedy answers to questions and to obtain quick feedback on their performance.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 23, 2011

My client was primarily engaged in soft skills training (or 'hard skills' as they jokingly call it) for which the style was likely to be relaxed, informal and non-directive. As training shifts from face-to-face to online, from formal to informal, the opportunities for a break from the routine undoubtedly diminish. It may as well be us."

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Hanif was also a keen supporter of the eLearning Network , a voluntary body of which I am currently chair, and a sponsor for both the E-Learning Awards and the IT Training Awards. You’re looking for improvements in performance and changes in behaviour. This is how I will remember him.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Surely when money is tight, the first priority should be to prune the training that is not relevant, not to rework it in a new format. The second as just as likely reason is that the training is being conducted for compliance purposes and that competency is the last thing on anyone's mind. The e-learning is not relevant?

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2015

but I will say it was a compulsory piece of training, completion of which was required if I was to be able to go ahead with some work with a client. Compliance is such an ugly word All this has got me thinking again about the whole nature of compliance training and what an ugly word 'compliance' is.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2011

The three weeks of residential classroom training are interspersed with assignments and conference calls. Performance support is not extensive but necessary information is available on the company’s intranet. The leadership development programme : This takes place over an 8-month period and is provided by an external contractor.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

The three weeks of residential classroom training are interspersed with assignments and conference calls. Performance support is not extensive but necessary information is available on the company’s intranet. The leadership development programme : This takes place over an 8-month period and is provided by an external contractor.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Not so much performance support, because you need that to hand every minute of the day and a smart phone is the obvious vehicle. A tablet is portable enough to use on a train or a plane, or when you're hanging about waiting somewhere. I'm convinced that the future of e-learning will be on tablet devices.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

In my post last week, I identified four elements that I felt needed to be in place if an organisation was to make a success of in-house e-learning development: tools, talent, training and, above all, time - the four Ts.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 6, 2010

In post ID, Why Managers Mater , I shared the results of an evaluation study carried out by KnowledgePool, in which 10,000 employees and their managers were asked to assess the degree to which they had been able to apply what they had learned on a course completed three months earlier and the impact this had had on their performance.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Not quite so often (because it takes a lot of concentration), but still regularly, I do brain training using Peak. Peak may not be making me cleverer but is definitely improving my ability to do brain training exercises. Absolutely every day (I’m on a 360-day streak), I practise my French using the Duolingo app.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2010

55% claim that l&d are failing to deliver necessary training. I'd be inclined to point the finger of blame (not a nice thing to do but hey) at the key decision-makers themselves: What on earth are you doing tolerating such poor performance (at least as you perceive it)? 40% see a risk of employee skills being obsolete.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 12, 2010

Organisations like rapid e-learning because it’s easier to maintain and update content / they can design and deliver training content more quickly: As you would expect here, the arguments are ones of efficiency rather than effectiveness.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 24, 2013

It makes no difference whether you regard training as a cost or an investment. Senior managers no longer take the l&d budget as a given; it has to be justified from the bottom-up as just one of a number of means for influencing performance and competitiveness. L&D is no different. Conserving cash is the name of the game.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

An immersive and highly-realistic training tool, such as a flight simulator, has no meaningful traditional equivalent other than practice in the real world. None of these really indicate the effectiveness of the approach in terms of impact on individual performance, when compared to alternative approaches. Is e-learning effective?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Not quite so often (because it takes a lot of concentration), but still regularly, I do brain training using Peak. Peak may not be making me cleverer but is definitely improving my ability to do brain training exercises. Absolutely every day (I’m on a 360-day streak), I practise my French using the Duolingo app.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Could I re-train as - what did you call it - a learning architect? But if you only really feel alive when you're performing in front of an audience, then this may not be for you. Or should I re-train as a learning technologist? Will anyone still do formal training in a future in which all learning is informal and on-the-job?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2011

One area of our lives over which we have much less control is the training we receive. Although training works best when the practical activities match the tasks we carry out in the course of our jobs, this principle is rarely applied. Competition is an integral element in our lives and can motivate us to higher levels of performance.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I'm going to share with you what I believe were the most important findings: "Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction. It was published by the US Department of Education in May. The report can be downloaded here.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Pecha Kucha is a performance art Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – discuss Survey on the use of media elements in e-learning June The triumph of the airheads (review) Chief Job Title Creation Officer How people really watch television The Big Question: What tools should we learn? Want a cushy little number?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2010

So, we are supposed to believe that formal learning is always wrong and informal learning always right; similarly for face-to-face v online, top-down v bottom-up, discovery learning v structured instruction, training v performance support, passive v interactive content, 2D v 3D, static v animated and so on.

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