ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

L&D definitely has a role to play in this metamorphosis albeit in a different avatar. This requires a holistic L&D strategy and a set of new L&D roles and skills. Right now, we do not have a defined roadmap to reinvent ourselves to re-imagine the future of workplace learning.

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Network Diversity Training PKM Communities of Practice 202

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

This requires anyone playing the role to wear multiple hats. In my post, I want to explore some of the "hats" a community manager needs to wear to execute her role. Providing generic, platform related information is not too useful. Reaching out to users proactively to find out if they need help makes adoption easier.

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Community Roles Management Screencast 172

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The approach taken is still that of “the organization will provide the training I need”. While the organizational culture plays a huge role, the embedded collective social psyche/unconscious is also responsible to some extent for employee behaviour. If possible, asking someone to provide feedback and coaching would be helpful.

Skills 132

Skills PKM Diversity Training Social Media 132

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

With organizations thinking of MOOCs as a scalable and cheaper way of providing training and professional development opportunities to the workers, it is important to keep in mind a few considerations before launching a MOOC. Can we take this framework -- the three roles of facilitators -- and extrapolate into a MOOC environment?

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 18, 2011

This is anexcellent thumb rule for designers--and as I got into my role of a communitymanager--I learned the value of this rule for community managers as well. They willsegregate and form smaller communities around functional areas, roles,projects, perhaps locations and regional offices, capability areas, and evenhobbies and interests.

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Community Management Design Search 175

ID Reflections

MAY 25, 2015

Inspirational role models - There are always a few early adopters and trend setters. The latter need strong role models whose behaviour they can emulate, whose successes and failures are out there for all to see. It is about providing the context to the information, the exceptions to the processes, the failed attempts and successes.

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ID Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Leaders have the propensity and are often expected to provide answers in times of great uncertainty and upheaval. Apart from the technology and the roles of community facilitators, this shift requires re-imagining and reinventing the structures, processes, and the culture as well as the underlying narratives of an organization.

Community 110

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Can we always depend on the experts to provide the best solution? Adaptive experts , on the other hand, are able to take on the role of inquiring novices when required and are thus able to view a problem from different perspectives. The curse of the expert! They tend to see everything through the lenses of their domain.

Diversity Training 123

Diversity Training Learner Cognitive Expertise 123

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

They will expect and demand to learn differently -- social, mobile and cloud will play a big role. This post, as the title says, is about Corporate Universities (CU) and the role of MOOCs therein. MOOC-providers like Coursera have also started Specialization tracks where a targeted sequence of courses lead to certifications.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

As an enterprise community manager and a proponent of collaboration, knowledge sharing and dialogue as a means and tool for learning, I found that this model provide substantial insight into the communication style and preferences of individuals.

Diversity Training 166

Diversity Training Community Management Culture 166

ID Reflections

JULY 15, 2009

What makes PS effective is the targeted learning that it provides and the “pull” approach inherent in its definition. That’s how we use Google and corporate wikis and instant messenger.” PS, by definition, is access to information and knowledge as we need it, when we need it. When is Performance Support needed?

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ID Reflections

JULY 28, 2009

The application is large, complex, and will be used by users of multiple roles performing varied tasks for very different business reasons. This mean, the technical team developing the application cannot always provide business reasons behind all the tasks. Different user profiles (Roles) b. Business need for each task d.

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Instructional Design Authoring Tools Program Rapid eLearning 100

ID Reflections

JUNE 25, 2014

Hence, the role of an enterprise community (learning) manager could become even more imperative in the success of a MOOC. Most organizations (hopefully) have accepted that learning is crucial to their strategy for growth and performance, and if done right, has a direct impact on the bottom line.

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PKM OER Diversity Training Trust 157

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

This is leading to a shift in the role of the L&D department – from managers and disseminators of formally designed programs to facilitators and enablers of collaboration and communities. Having said that, a major percentage of organizations today are striving to put in place one or more of the above-mentioned modes and tools of learning.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Most importantly, from the perspective of trainers who have been immersed in classroom training for years, Jane adds the “comforting and promising possibilities” of technology use without the alarm of having to throw away all the time-tested methods of training like role plays, debates, post a question, etc.

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Social Media Media Wiki Blogging 166

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Most often, these will also be a lot quicker and a hell of a lot cheaper in providing the information needed than a full-fledged training program. This does mean re-thinking the ID role in many cases. Training programs may go the Conde Nast way. User-generated content is going to be on the rise and should be encouraged.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 100

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

More importantly, are those the kind of work that will provide us with the indispensable competitive edge? Adaptive experts , on the other hand, are able to take on the role of inquiring novices when required and are thus able to view a problem from different perspectives. They tend to see everything through the lenses of their domain.

Learner 177

Learner Diversity Training Expertise Cognitive 177

ID Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2014

Thus, micro-learning can play a crucial role in both formally designed performance support as well as in informal learning, with the latter focusing on user-generated content. That information is provided based on their requests. In addition, all the learning processes are recorded continuously everyday.

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Micro-Learning Informal Roles Wikipedia 222

ID Reflections

JULY 30, 2014

It’s rapidly becoming evident that training will increasingly have a tiny role to play in workplace learning and performance. Recognizing those with a fixed mindset and providing them with the necessary support and coaching could lead to better performance. Training wasn’t necessarily leading to the desired performance outcome anymore.

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Performance Support Performance Knowing Doing Gap Coaching 167

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

Summative evaluation "provides information on the product's efficacy ( it's ability to do what it was designed to do)." Does the organization provide learners with some amount of free time that can be utilized as "learning time" so that learners can go through the course within work hours? So, what's the big deal you may ask."

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ID Reflections

MAY 30, 2013

In your role as group leader, what is the most critical aspect of your work," I asked, expecting him to say planning, prioritizing tasks, allocation and so on. This is far removed from my earlier world of corporate workplace learning and community management but that is the subject of another post.

Leadership 139

Leadership Skills Job Predictions 139

ID Reflections

JANUARY 10, 2010

However, increasingly in my role as an Instructional Designer (ID), I have run up against the necessity to not only multi-task but also to think beyond training solution, learning needs and design. At the outset, let me admit that this is a somewhat unusual book for me to read.

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Project Management Analysis Consulting 104

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

We also have a fair idea why this question is cropping up in various forms.Today, the role of learning professionals have undergone and are undergoing a paradigm shift. My colleague and I had begun a similar discussion on our " explore learning solutions " forum as well.

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Skills Social Networks Big Question Theory 100

ID Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2009

Constructivism plays a large role coupled with Cognitivsim in catering to this aspect. Point 2 Once this connection has been established, the learner will very likely exert himself/herself to acquire the new skill. All learners (I am not talking of compulsory schooling) come to any course with a “What’s In It For Me” approach.

Theory 124

Theory Learner Social Networks Learning Theory 124

ID Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2009

Hence I believe Homophily plays such an important role in our interactions, especially in informal social learning. ? Can we provide tools and systems (e.g. Whether we are conscious of it or not, our learning and what we seek to learn and from whom (especially, if it’s informal learning) is driven by our instinct of co-existence.

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Informal Learning Informal Blended Learning Social 110

ID Reflections

MAY 18, 2010

How it all started The client, based out of the USA, is one of the key players in providing trading technology and connectivity solutions to financial market participants. But before I fast forward to the learning, here's a brief overview and background to set what I learned in context. They have been around for almost 4 decades.

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Project Change Storyboard ILT 104

ID Reflections

JULY 31, 2014

HR might take the “number of hours of training provided to employees” attitude in the interest of employee engagement and Gallup polls. This approach should help both L&D and business recognize where training can play an important role and show visible business benefits, and where other interventions (beyond training) are required.

Performance Support 163

Performance Support Performance Business ROI 163

ID Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2016

Uber taps into existing resources providing people – both the suppliers and the buyers – with a platform to connect. And what role does L&D play in the process? L&D and the organization’s role will be to provide a highly-efficient sharing system and encourage participation. Learning is no exception.

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Organizational Learning Course Scanning Community 100

ID Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

Jobs and roles are rapidly evolving with new ones emerging, and old ones getting automated or vanishing altogether. The technological affordances of social and mobile add to the ability to provide an ecosystem of continuous and pervasive learning. In the context of this need for continuous learning, MOOCs can play a critical role.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Design Micro-Learning Theory 100

ID Reflections

JULY 17, 2014

He emphasizes the importance of re-thinking the role of HR and defines some of the aspects that make for a high-impact HR team. And one of the important points he raises is the need to consider HR as a talent function , moving beyond some of the typical administrative tasks that are typically seen as defining parameters of HR roles.

Diversity Training 141

Diversity Training Specialist Performance Support Write Blog 141

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Sahana Chattopadhyay looks at this changing world -- and defines the new roles required by L&D departments everywhere. This calls for the acquisition of new skills and roles in the team to meet the changing needs of a demographically diverse workforce.

PKM 100

PKM Diversity Training Community Communities of Practice 100

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2014

I have written/pondered on the role of L&D in the 21c workplace in my last two posts here and here. As I revisited my posts in the light of the article mentioned above, I realized I had neglected to mention quite a few significant aspects of L&D’s role in the 21C workplace.

Skills 145

Skills Cognitive Performance Support Culture 145

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Whether we depend on others to provide us with curated content or wedecide to become curators in our area(s) of expertise or interest, the need forcuration as a sense making and PKM activity is undeniable. Who are likely to be playing the role of key curators in anorganization? Real-time curators need to add participationwidgets.

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PKM Mashups Pattern Community 218

ID Reflections

JANUARY 21, 2014

With the intention to write regularly again… Wicked problems and their role in organizational learning have always fascinated me…so here are some more thoughts on the same topic. Back after a long break! Organizations are increasingly facing wicked problems in a complex and, often, a chaotic world.

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Outsource Expertise Learning Policies 176

ID Reflections

JULY 3, 2014

I recently wrote a post on the Role of L&D in the 21C Workplace which made me a part of a discussion happening half-way around the world and of which I had been so far unaware. Provide different ways to acquire the skills – short courses, job aids, reference resources, links to external content, connect with experts, and so on.

Compliance Training 132

Compliance Training Slideshare Conversation Twitter 132

ID Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2015

This way, those who may not have been a part of the meeting but has relevant knowledge and inputs, can pitch in and provide valuable insights. Standard job descriptions will give way to role descriptions – the tasks and outcome someone holding the role will have to perform. Idealistic notion?

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Agile Social Networks Expertise Collaboration 100

ID Reflections

JULY 9, 2015

This thought was triggered by David Kelly's presentation - Social Media, Social Learning, and Curation where he highlights the role each of the social tools/platform can play in our sharing and learning. that provides a practitioners' take on the topic. Here is a Pinterest board on using Pinterest effectively.

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Social Networks Slideshare Tools Cognitive 100