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JANUARY 20, 2022

This often includes taking extra steps to develop resources and programs that make learning and development an enjoyable, functional part of employees’ roles. As learning and development professionals, we often focus on going beyond learning programs to create an organization-wide learning culture.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

As talent development responsibilities extend beyond the Human Resources department, management and leadership teams express their needs for more support in developing their skills as well as their staff’s skills.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Fortunately, we have developed a resource to help solve this issue, saving your company money, time, and effort when adding members to your team. Given the state of work today, many of these organic integration opportunities are suddenly non-existent. Remote teams need to find new ways to onboard employees effectively.

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JULY 1, 2021

Mentorship gives new team members resources to guide, reassure, and orient them, as well as helping them become a member of the team culture and vision. New hires have a lot of information they need to focus on, and they will most likely be unsure of the best steps they need to take to succeed.

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MAY 25, 2011

In its place, we recommend that they create practice scenarios and problems, then provide well-structured information repositories where learners can find the resources they need to work through the exercises.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Once you’ve established a business connection, you’ve set the foundation for sharing a multitude of resources ranging from best practices to collaborating on joint ventures and projects. Your business networks can be your most valuable resources! So how do you build your network? Start meeting more people. Blog this!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A relatively novel idea, customer education focuses on ensuring clients have the resources they need to succeed when interacting with your corporation. Companies are beginning to understand the utility of an educated customer base and are developing training solutions to improve business outcomes.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Many companies have been forced to cut salary budgets, slim down their workforce, and make layoff decisions that impact business processes and resources. Now more than ever, employees and teams are overworked and understaffed.

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JUNE 19, 2019

While instructional design models are great for assessing needs, getting to the root of problems , and designing effective solutions, they cannot help you manage multimedia resources or juggle LMS administration tasks. But do you know what can?

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Many companies have been forced to cut salary budgets, slim down their workforce, and make layoff decisions that impact business processes and resources. Now more than ever, employees and teams are overworked and understaffed.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Maybe your high-level leaders support your compliance training program , but do you have the information and resources you need to implement a meaningful program?

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MAY 30, 2019

The challenge that organizations face is figuring out how to address their needs on the spot with the resources available. Waiting for the next scheduled online training session would not only diminish their productivity but also put customer satisfaction at risk.

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JULY 18, 2018

However, it can be cost-prohibitive and resource-intensive to obtain data needed to analyze the program’s impact. Measuring impact is important for those responsible for evaluating the success of their organization’s training programs. So, what can we do to identify metrics to help discover the training program ROI?

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 8, 2011

That eLearning you went through completely on your own 6 weeks ago didn’t stick long enough to be of real use and your only real resource is the help desk. Use the LMS or company intranet to set up a site with ask the expert discussion boards, opportunities for live chats, FAQs, and other online help resources.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

While there are a lot of resources being invested in these strategies, there aren’t many that are doing it particularly… Continue Reading The post Tapping into the Intangible: Qualifying the Psychology of Gamification appeared first on Social Learning Blog. It’s an industry poised to hit $5.5

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APRIL 19, 2017

And now networking has changed dramatically with online resources like LinkedIn and Facebook. It used to mean the power lunch, golfing with colleagues, or drinks after work. Then came the growth of associations, conferences, and trade shows. Networking” used to be a buzzword; today it’s almost cliché.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

It’s been the topic du jour of articles, webinars, conference break-out sessions, office meetings, and any other resource you can name. What else is new? At this point, that concept is exhausted. But increasing learning engagement is easier said than done, especially when your content isn’t exactly a page turner.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 8, 2011

Some things we can do to begin addressing on-demand learning needs during the development phase include: Creating a buzz in the audience base with social network/media tools Holding online or offline focus groups to get audience feedback on tool prototypes Providing the audience with a way to submit their on-demand ideas and incorporate the great ones (..)

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MARCH 24, 2016

It isn’t always easy asking for time, resources, or money. I know this first-hand. I asked my wife for permission to subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket.

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JULY 25, 2012

Should we allocate resources to solve it? (Do Environmental factors include information, resources, and incentives: Information is communicating clear expectations, providing the necessary guides to do the work, and giving timely, behaviorally specific feedback. Do we have a performance problem? What is the performance problem?

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APRIL 5, 2011

To avoid this problem, companies must build significant financial and human resources into ERP project plans for communications, training, and other organizational change management activities. And when employees are left wondering, resistance to change is a natural and predictable result.

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JUNE 17, 2011

It is an excellent resource. As noted on the site, there are a variety of ways you can participate in the eLearning Learning community, from subscribing to the “best of” or to a “full feed” to helping collect good content. Share your stuff. Participate!

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MARCH 15, 2011

The KEC includes: The purpose of the evaluation The evaluation methodology and why it was selected The program demographics and resources The criteria for determining the program quality. The KEC provides a roadmap for the design, implementation, and assessment of evaluations.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Wrike.com Wrike is a tool that I’ve only recently come across, but it strikes me as being a very flexible project management resource. With good user participation driven by a consistent company message, Vanilla Forums can work as a pretty decent substitute for a help desk, and as an even better compliment to instructor-led training.

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MAY 29, 2012

Kaufman’s model connects performance to expectation and includes analyses of available corporate resources, organizational payoffs, and a mega analysis of societal contributions. Dianne Rees’s post is an interesting take on the Instructional Design Evaluation. Does it improve on Kirkpatrick? You decide. [link].

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JANUARY 8, 2012

Communities of Practice and Expert Locator Networks – these on-line resources take forums and discussion groups to the next level, and are structured around specific topics. Learning Portals – act as hubs for all the resources listed above.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Wrike.com Wrike is a tool that I’ve only recently come across, but it strikes me as being a very flexible project management resource. With good user participation driven by a consistent company message, Vanilla Forums can work as a pretty decent substitute for a help desk, and as an even better compliment to instructor-led training.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 21, 2011

In her post, Dr. Weber asks this question: Why is change from traditional to innovative so hard for some to embrace, and how do resources shift from people who guard status quo – to innovative leaders who sustain communities of passion? Of course, when I saw this question, I had to try to answer it.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Once resources have been provided, the job of the instructor (itself a dirty word) is done, and anything more can only serve to taint the natural learning process. Central to these tenets of social learning is the importance of keeping things unfettered. The problem is that in some cases, this call has risen to the le vel of dogma.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 16, 2011

But if you’re training soft skills like leadership, or facilitating a group that needs to think through a scenario and find solutions, it’s better to give them autonomy , time and resources for practice to attain mastery , and a clear purpose for what they are learning. So there you have it; common sense is wrong.

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APRIL 17, 2011

You can draw on the “before-and-after” business and human resource metrics that are readily available in any company. He recommends developing the Level 4 evaluation in a way that top management would find meaningful. You need to determine what kind of evidence is most compelling for management and in what form they want it.

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MAY 27, 2011

I came across a couple of resources that have me thinking about it. I’ve been creating blended training solutions for years that look something like this: My model needs a face lift. Here’s the gist: Disruptive innovation (termed as such by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M.

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JUNE 30, 2011

How might the role of human resources or training & development professionals adapt to this new 21st century landscape? For example, if a federal counselor is helping a beneficiary, he or she can simply launch an EPSS on the desktop to ensure every task is covered and performed correctly as he or she is developing the case.

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JUNE 26, 2011

Technology should never be thought of as the master teacher and sole delivery system for learning but just one component in a whole suite of resources. Good learning programs should not over control the learning process but let the learner have time to explore and experiment. . Option-Rich. Activity based.

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JULY 4, 2011

Links to blog posts in the adult learning and training arena, studies, opinions, and back channel resources for a variety of conferences are shared on a daily basis…I just had to know how to find them. The first thing, hash tags, really helped me to finally find streams that I could follow that actually held value for me.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A human resource software company was implementing new software. Reconsidering the solution allowed the company to better address the users’ need for a “self-serve” solution with an on-demand EPSS. . Revisiting the needs assessment.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Organizations must leverage the most valuable resource – people and their performance – in every way that they can. If the basics don’t offer enough information, it allows you to go deeper – a lot deeper – until you gain the understanding needed to complete the task. Knowledge is very expensive to acquire.

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