Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 2, 2017

It could be argued that it came into existence the day we separated training from the workplace. Talent development specialist Boudewijn Overduin says the solution to this problem is simple: ‘If you don’t train, you don’t have a transfer problem’.” 2007) Training Transfer: An Integrative Literature Review Zitter, I.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 12, 2013

The part that formal, directed learning plays in overall organisational capability may be important at times, but organisations aspiring towards Peter Senge’s ‘learning organization’ – in other words, creating a culture of continuous learning - need to reach beyond simply improving structured training. What got us here won’t get us there’.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 31, 2016

Training became a huge industry. The inertia is strong - effective L&D professional development is critical The formal training industry is huge and is well embedded in HR practices. HR, L&D and OD development is still predominantly based around training to deliver ‘faster horses’. It fits with the industrial mindset.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

For example a study of 829 companies over 31 years showed diversity training had "no positive effects in the average workplace." " The study reported that mandatory training sometimes has a positive effect, but overall has a negative effect. There are two caveats about training.

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Performance Learning Productivity

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Adding Learning to Work Many learning professionals and training companies have taken the lesson about the criticality of context to heart and are designing courses and programmes that link learning with work more closely than was done in the past. Jane Hart has observed a very similar trend with her study of the uptake of social learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This approach has value but, by adding activities that are explicitly focused on assisting learning, these activities are often seen by the target group as ‘extended training’. As such the development, although taking place in the workflow, is to a large extent ‘directed’ by the HR or Learning/Training department.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 5, 2016

Helen started her career within the Royal Australian Navy across two branches (Training Development and Public Relations) as well as working within Service and external to Service (with Air Force and Army and Defence civilians), then with the Reserves. It’s wider than that.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 7, 2013

You’ll see overlap but also unique perspectives: Charles Jennings An increasing number of organisations, independent of size, nature or location, will acknowledge that their traditional training and development models and processes are failing to live up to the expectations of their leaders and workforce in a dynamic and global marketplace.

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Performance Learning Productivity

APRIL 1, 2013

In the past that strategy provided a more robust defence than it does now (see an earlier article about compliance training for a discussion on that issue). A Tool for (a fading) Industrial Society In his article, Donald also gave a pen-sketch of the origins of the Learning Management System (LMS) as training administration systems.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 10, 2016

(this article first appeared in the Spring 2016 Edition of Training Industry Quarterly) Classroom education emerged in a world of information paucity. Yet much of today’s education and training in the world of work remains fixed to an era long gone. Exactly the same could be said of adult training and development as of child education.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Full explanations of how the 70:20:10 approach can be used to help overcome the ‘training bubble’ Descriptions of five new performance-focused roles to support the use of 70:2010 The detailed tasks that need to be executed in each of these roles. BUY THE BOOK: www.702010institute.com Just eight of these sections are devoted to the problems.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 28, 2010

Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. If we train our dog , or our goldfish , we can observe learning by the fact that the animal can do something it couldn’t do before the training started. I pass with flying colours.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2016

That’s why there is such huge investment in immersive simulators for training by the military, the aviation industry, the nuclear industry, for space programmes, and an increasing number of other industries. Another term for ‘workplace training’ is adding learning to work. In the course mindset we then carry out course design.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 24, 2013

If you acknowledge that high performers usually build their capabilities through experience, through practice and through utilising a rich network of support rather than exclusively (or even mainly) through structured training and development away from the workplace, then you will immediately grasp the 70:20:10 concept.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 10, 2017

He 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). Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 3, 2013

The ‘Best Practice’ Conundrum However, it seems that the majority of training and development approaches and processes are based on deterministic models. “ In other words, we can design, develop and deliver training to help people address future situations with the confidence that similar actions will produce similar results.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 18, 2009

Training/L&D is a big business. And conversely, the time L&D staff spend ‘delivering courses/time in a training facility’ is still a staggering 46% – down just 3% from the previous year. This means that many Training/L&D staff only plan, develop and deliver ILT training and have no time to do anything else.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 5, 2017

As a Senior Manager at Microsoft, she developed new training practices and wrote an accessible white paper on the deeper aspects of learning design. The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award for 2017 is presented to Marcia Conner. Marcia was an early leader in the movement for individual and social learning, and an innovator.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 27, 2016

It isn’t a new interface for traditional training, nor a new learning theory. Of course some structured learning (the ‘10’) is extremely helpful to get started and also to provide some guidance along the way, but structured training in language learning, or in any other domain, will not alone produce high performance.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 6, 2009

In early 1939 McGraw-Hill published a profound little book that should be on the reading list of everyone involved in learning and training today. Below I’ve recounted (and adapted) some of Professor Peddiwell’s lecture because I think we can learn from it when we reflect what’s happening in the training and development world.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 30, 2009

The further up the hierarchy we go – from K12 to college through University and into training and learning in our working lives – we notice the majority of the structured learning we’re offered contains lots of content for us to ‘know’ but very little opportunity for us build capability to ‘do’. This is a naïve view of the learning process.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 9, 2010

Implication for L&D: Less is more So what are the implications of this tsunami of information on the way we go about training and development? The implication of this trend for the current content-rich model of training and development that's used so widely today is really profound.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 13, 2016

He 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). Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 16, 2013

Information dissemination (often the bulk of many training courses) doesn’t constitute the best use of time for specialists in building workforce knowledge and capability, nor for the intended recipients. This may, or may not, involve designing, developing and delivering physical or virtual training, eLearning or some other intervention.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JUNE 19, 2009

Below I’ve listed five basic actions that every L&D and HR leader should take if they want to raise both the impact and profile of their Training/Learning & Development operations. Managers need to be involved in this ‘post-training reinforcement’ as well as in any course or programme planning. They can’t.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 24, 2017

Face-to-face teaching is expensive, and it’s impossible to ‘process’ large numbers of people through physical training. They were filing and scheduling systems for training, with no real support for any flexible learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 7, 2009

It’s generally accepted that most of the learning that occurs within our organisations takes place outside formal training and learning events. The Toolwire live labs and interactive virtual worlds system offers access to suites of (real) servers and routers for technical training.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The Research A 2009 study by the Learning & Development Roundtable, a division of the Corporate Executive Board, reported that on-the-job learning had three times the impact on performance improvement over formal training programs.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 28, 2016

(I wrote the original piece this article is based on for Training Industry Quarterly in Winter, 2012. I feel it still speaks to a key issue for building high performance that has barely been touched by many L&D professionals).

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 23, 2015

Perhaps this is why social learning is being resisted or put into a formal training box in many organizations. If not, that means that organizations need to understand and implement something like a human performance technology model for L&D before they can move on to social learning. It’s too much of a leap for organizations in Stage 2.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 7, 2014

An inclination or a habit … a way of life Development Mindsets and the 70:20:10 Model 70:20:10 provides a clear and simple approach to extending the support of learning and development for all workers - from individual contributors to senior leaders - beyond the services traditionally delivered by the HR and Training/L&D departments.

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Performance Learning Productivity

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The submissions are published as an overall listing, and Jane also sub-divides the data into categories for different contexts: Top 100 Tools for Education – tools for use in schools, colleges, universities, adult education Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning – tools for use in training, for performance support, social collaboration, and other workplace (..)

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Performance Learning Productivity

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Old-fashioned content-centric training models away from the workplace simply don’t help terribly much. 702010forum.com #itashare'

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Performance Learning Productivity

APRIL 7, 2010

The Five Barriers: Barrier 1: Efficiency Barrier 2: Inertia Barrier 3: Convenience Barrier 4: Training Mindset Barrier 5: Manager Engagement Barrier 1: Efficiency No machine can work at 100% efficiency without breaking the first and second laws of thermodynamics. These questions are all about performance, not about training or learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Trust and ‘A Seat at the Table’ Like HR, many training and learning departments have been trying for years to gain a seat at the top table in their organisation. Without a high level of trust anyL&D manager will find it almost impossible to embed a culture of learning in their organisation.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 29, 2009

Many organisations are still living with [1] and don’t really know how to move away from having a gaggle of un-coordinated L&D/Training groups who are all doing their own ‘thing’ and often competing internally. The ‘C curve model is a mechanism for making that move.

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 7, 2014

At the same time the study found that simply improving existing practices in the delivery of classroom training will yield only limited gains. Data from CLC Learning and Development High Performance Survey: CLC Training Effectiveness Dashboard. Training was seen as the only solution to performance problems. Used with permission.

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