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Convergence of Learning with Work – Now What?

Living in Learning

An initiative to evolve L&D strategy, tactics, and technology represents an entry point for optimizing the convergence already on the table. This “new information” represents different conversations within L&D, from leadership to individual contributor roles, as well as operational stakeholders.

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Chief Capability Officer (CCO) Seeks a New Home

Living in Learning

Having been in L&D for many years in virtually every role from road warrior sales trainer to multiple leadership positions, I have been an advocate of the premise that Training Drives Performance. And why not, it’s promoted in both scope and charter of the typical L&D mission?

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Chief Capability Officer (CCO) Seeks a New Home

Living in Learning

Having been in L&D for many years in virtually every role from road warrior sales trainer to multiple leadership positions, I have been an advocate of the premise that Training Drives Performance. And why not, it’s promoted in both scope and charter of the typical L&D mission?

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Myths, Monsters & Performer Support

Living in Learning

Training as a profession has always sort of been in a “sales” role. Selling the shift from classroom training to on-line e-learning, and then back again as a compromise to protect a draft pick and a player to be named later. We sold sexy flash-based on-line courses. We sold the need for a big honking LMS.

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The False Promise of Training as a Driver of Performance

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The strategy of skating at night, mind you, was intentional to reduce the chances of anyone seeing me dressed in all this unnecessary safety gear. Shortly after enacting the hunker down strategy, I realized I had just become more aerodynamic. Good strategy. In so doing, I turned into five and a half feet of speeding fat man.

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Change Leadership: When Change Management Is Not Enough

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CM works well with the tactical aspects of changes, but let Change engage people to pursue new strategy and embrace new thinking and the key CL principles of inspire and influence become invaluable in generating critical mass. CM does nothing to address motivation or leadership requirements of the people involved.

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The Future of Learning is Not Now!

Living in Learning

While there were strategies in place to attack the future as it unfolded, I saw little consensus as to specific destinations. In the context of a learning continuum though, classroom training plays a radically different role where emphasis is on job emulation and demonstrating proficiency using performer support tools.