Living in Learning

MAY 12, 2019

Why L&D is so resistant to Change…Change specific to adopting an evolved paradigm that keys on enabling workforce performance solutions that actually render performance outcomes. The common lament seems to be “Why isn’t training in all it’s innovations not delivering the results?"

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Living in Learning

JANUARY 15, 2014

We have managed to become unconsciously competent in the "discipline" of Training – not to be confused with the "tactics" of Training. Perfect example; we do this by sampling different innovative approaches to Training and expecting results different from what Training and all its past and even most recent innovations can deliver.

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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

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

JULY 4, 2018

I’m sure you’ve heard some variation of the phrase, “If Training is a hammer, then every performance problem is a nail” at some point in the past. What if…after closer inspection…we had discovered a hammer was the wrong tool for the job…or maybe not the wrong tool…but certainly not the only tool? We never looked. We were paradigm-blinded.

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Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We decided that the problem was based upon not being able to get to the “next level” of training. 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

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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