Performance Learning Productivity

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What Does the Training Department Do When Training Doesn’t Work?

Performance Learning Productivity

The global training industry is large and in growth again post-2008. Data provided by the US membership organisation Training Industry suggests annual growth around 6% per year since 2009. And it’s not only efficiencies in the training process itself that we need to look for. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

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Who Needs Training, Again?

Performance Learning Productivity

Spending money, time and effort providing face-to-face training or eLearning courses for workers in an attempt to equip them to use new processes and systems as they’re rolled out across our organisations is one of these cases.

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The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

Performance Learning Productivity

The first chapter of ‘ 70:20:10 towards 100% performance’ (the recent book by Arets, Jennings & Heijnen) is titled ‘the training bubble’. It takes a quick look at the history, the lure, and some of the problems that have been brought about by thinking only in the formal training paradigm rather than in the performance paradigm.

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Building a Culture of Continuous Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

Classes, courses and curricula – structured learning events – don’t provide all the tools in the toolkit. In a recent webinar I discussed some very interesting data from the Corporate Leadership Council’s ‘Training Effectiveness Dashboard’ study with participants. Most people get it. What got us here won’t get us there’.

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70:20:10 - A Framework for High Performance Development Practices

Performance Learning Productivity

Of course structured and directed ‘formal’ learning can help, but it rarely, if ever, provides the complete answer. It also provides a coherent framework to strategise workplace, social and structured learning activities. Performance support comes in many forms. I would encourage to explore it. [1] 1] [link]'

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70-20-10: Origin, Research, Purpose

Performance Learning Productivity

He has been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010). In other words, we learn more from working and interacting with fellow workers than we do from away-from-work training.

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It’s Only 65% !

Performance Learning Productivity

Training Although the terms convey basic concepts, there seems still to be some confusion between the meaning of the words learning and training. Learning’ covers a much wider range of activities than training. However the words training and learning are not interchangeable. Learning is a process not an event.