Clark Quinn

AUGUST 12, 2020

My initial reaction is to provide, as a palliative, tips to avoid millennials marketing hype. We’re not quite done with the pitch: “how to level up your existing learning strategy to meaningfully engage your Millennial and Gen Z learners.” And, as you might imagine, it tweaked my sensibilities for the worse.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Which is why I tout LXD Strategy ! Leveraging what we know about cognitive science can provide us with structures and approaches that accommodate these factors. There are good prescriptions (that we often ignore, for reasons above) about what to do and how. So, we should follow them. However, we need more. We need to do better.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

What can you do that will provide just the amount of help you need to make progress? Tags: strategy. You want to bring in top thinking in a lightweight way, rather than ending up with a bunch of interns trying to tie themselves to you at the wrist and ankles. You need to be strategic, so be strategic about it!

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Strategy Cognitive Outsource Performance Support 100

Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2022

The book is grounded in his early experience writing learning games, then researching cognition and engagement, and ongoing exploration and application of learning, technology, and design to creating solutions and strategies. Then, the rigor of academic training in writing and reading should provide a reasonable expectation of quality.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 14, 2020

Charles Jennings does as well, personally, but a lot of his work currently is more on design methodologies and corporate strategy. The Community Maturity Model also can provide guidance about building effective work relationships. Both have worked with organizations to improve outcomes. Harold uses it a lot too.)

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 5, 2014

Now, underpinning this trilogy is another trilogy, those factors that provide a foundation. Here I’m talking about: Strategy. Strategy is systematically aligning what the L&D group is doing with the business needs, measuring what’s happening, and providing a growth path. strategy' Infrastructure.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 13, 2021

It’s under their professional education series, called Effective Learning Strategies. It’s about courses, performance support, informal and social learning, contextual opportunities, and strategy, in six weeks of online sessions, with a tiny bit of reading, and interim assignments. You can earn a certificate.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

His takeaways provided valuable lessons for individuals, schools, organizations, and society. design social strategy' Howard Rheingold gave a fast-paced and inspiring talk on social network skills. With great examples and deep insight, he brought home powerful lessons on the power of people.

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Social Networks Social Network Lesson Network 186

Clark Quinn

JUNE 16, 2020

And, two recent articles provide a little insight about getting wiser. That alternative is to aim to be ‘content’ In other words, instead of the ‘more’ strategy (acquiring more = happiness), the alternative is the ‘enough’ strategy. And I receive their newsletter. Not all’s perfect.

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Alternatives Newsletter Strategy Culture 202

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Here’s a video that provides the qualifications, and five trends for 2021 that I’d expect, or like, to see. And the script: Hi, I’m Clark Quinn, of Quinnovation (a boutique learning experience design strategy consultancy). As frequently happens, I get asked for my predictions. And, of course, I have reservations.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 22, 2014

In a wide ranging and inspiring talk, Neil covered how new technologies, models, and methods provide opportunities to transcend our problems and create a world worth living in. strategy technology' Neil Jacobstein gave the keynote for the special Future of Talent event sponsored by SAP and hosted by the Churchill Club.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the former case, we have a legal responsibility to provide guidance. In the latter case, we provide the best guidance, but of course the organization isn’t obliged to comply. A small offering of a particular course might benefit from an independent advisory board, which provides some oversight.

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Pedagogy Quality Forum Social Networks 242

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

I have to admit I’ve been a bit surprised to see that movements towards improving elearning and learning strategy haven’t had more impact. And similarly with learning strategy, so despite the Revolution , it doesn’t appear that there’s any big move in L&D to take a bigger perspective.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 21, 2019

Strategy Session : here the goal is to determine the path to change. Coaching : here we provide the lightest weight support that will keep momentum. the assessment, a strategy session for improvements, and a termed coaching engagement to support success.

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Change eLearning Guild DevLearn Coaching 158

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What she did, however, is provide a rich suite of potential barriers, along with solutions, and suggest that you may need to address more than one. You might address learning, provide job aids, ensure incentives are aligned, prepare supervisors, and more. She was more focused on making the learning design succeed.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 30, 2014

The point, of course, is that all these reasons not to change provide a significant barrier to success. If you’re doing what your strategy says, are you looking out for disruptive forces, and creating your own? strategy' We decided that we’d line up and start a blog carnival with each of us addressing one.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 2, 2014

My latest tome, Revolutionize Learning & Development: Performance and Innovation Strategy for the Information Age is out. What I’ve tried to do is make the case for dragging L&D into the 21st Century, and then provide an onramp. I have done my best to provide a short and cogent kickstart to moving forward. .

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 3, 2021

This was good practice, but how to provide feedback? This is on top of providing the ability to respond in richer ways that picking an option out of those provided. Ultimately, we allowed learners to record their answers, then listen to their answers and a model answer.

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CD-ROM Case Study Evalution Asynchronous 283

Clark Quinn

MARCH 19, 2019

As part of a good learning design strategy. And, if you write good descriptions within those elements, you really provide a foundation that makes it difficult to do bad design. And that’s not true. Investment in, say, sims makes sense if you’re using it to implement good design (e.g. deep practice).

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Clark Quinn

JULY 26, 2016

My fall schedule is coalescing, so I thought I’d provide pointers to when and where I’ll be for the rest of this year: I’m doing two webinars for a government agency, one at the end of August, and one at the end of September. The week after I’ll be keynoting a private event in Connecticut.

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DevLearn eLearning Strategy Conference Mobile Learning 100

Clark Quinn

MAY 26, 2020

Another possibility is that we’re not providing the right support. We’re not providing useful models and examples instead of a content dump with what’s to hand. We might fail to do the proper performance consulting. Thus, we’d be developing learning solutions that aren’t going to meet the need.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 30, 2023

They’ve provided content and access to SMEs. I’m muddling my metaphor…:) It may not be that in practice, of course. There is a ‘faith’ that “if we build it, it is good” So, biz units can ask for a course, and get one. It’s like they think the job can be done with information.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 20, 2015

And it occurs to me that getting our processes structured to align with how we work is part of a bigger picture of how our strategies have to similarly be informed. The argument for informal and social learning similarly comes from our natural approaches, and similarly needs to provide facilitation for where things can and do go wrong.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2023

That is, a belief that if we’re provided with the appropriate information, we can crank out a solution. In conversations, I’ve begun to suspect that one of the biggest, if not the biggest, problem facing designers wishing to do truly good, deep, design, is client expectations.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

context-sensing: reading the environment for cues to change strategies. The reflection was that the mechanisms we were suggesting then, to make companies more resilient, were actually strategies making companies more flexible and adaptive. heat-shock proteins: released under extreme conditions to repair structure.

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Organization Mentoring Diversity Training Network 178

Clark Quinn

JULY 21, 2022

It’s worth breaking down the problems, both to sensitize you to the potential problems, and provide some guidance about what’s right. Along with a definition were nine strategies for promoting this desirable feature. Please, please, provide the rationale for any such collection! So here’s a cautionary tale.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 6, 2013

Taking something relatively abstract like coaching, you could be providing support for developing a coaching model (rather than using an existing one), or you could be figuring out how to help a person separate out person from behavior (commenting on the latter is to be preferred). design strategy'

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Coaching Behavior Strategy Personal 169

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In elearning, we create introductions and concept presentations, we portray examples, and we make interactivities that provide practice. There’s now an Experience API that provides some infrastructure for creating such an experience management system, but there’re still some intermediate steps needed. design strategy'

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Content Mentoring eLearning Strategy Alternatives 179

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

I reckon that anyone capable of developing and delivering on this model provides a model that others can only emulate, not improve upon. design strategy' We’re working on the first two initially at the Foundation, and hopefully we’ll get to the latter soon. Here’s hoping!

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I was pleased to have the biggest turnout yet for a workshop, and take the interest in elearning strategy as an indicator that the revolution is taking hold. design meta-learning mobile social strategy' The informal feedback was that, while daunted by the scope, they were excited by the potential and recognizing the need to begin.

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DevLearn eLearning Guild Cognitive eLearning Strategy 182

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

I’ve heard of nice things like buying someone else’s coffee, or providing extra change. meta-learning strategy' What I am looking for is more ideas of how we can be quietly adding value to what’s going on, instead of detracting. Are there other ideas we can be using? I welcome hearing yours!

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Photo Picture Learning Strategy Ideas 154

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 31, 2014

For Inside Learning & Technologies 50th edition, a number of us were asked to provide reflections on what has changed over the past 15 years. A strategy to get there is a companion effort. strategy technology' The path forward is not easy but it is systematic and doable. Here’s to change for the better.

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Performance Support Wiki Metrics Social Media 192

Clark Quinn

MAY 31, 2022

We don’t think everyone will be appropriate for every thing we’re providing. This, to me, suggests that the intro either explicitly making it clear who we think is the audience, or provides an initial statement of what the outcomes are so that individuals can self-select.

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Alternatives Suite Communication Issue 194

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

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. meta-learning social strategy' In a Miranda organization , no one is going to share. Note that this is not something you manage or control.

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Behavior Attitudes Diversity Training Benefits 184

Clark Quinn

JULY 17, 2013

So, as Jane concludes: “how ready are you to provide these new services?” design social strategy' Our goal should be to have a business impact, and a one-trick pony isn’t going to meet the rich complexity and rate of change we’re increasingly going to face. ” #itashare.

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Performance Support Social Services Suite 183

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Getting the models is hard when the resources provided don’t include that information. design strategy' I’m trying hard to avoid arbitrary categorizations, and find the principles that drove those categorizations. Note that all this is not easy. Avoiding presenting just knowledge and definitions is hard work.

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Classes Learning Coaching Activities 186

Clark Quinn

JUNE 15, 2021

So providing a safe sandbox for exploration is a support for learning. We learn to minimize surprise , but we also act to generate surprise. I stipulate that we do so when the costs of getting it wrong are low. That is, making learning safe. Similarly, have low consequences for mistakes generated through informal learning.

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