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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing. More about me here. Properly d.

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Measuring The Effectiveness of Your Blended Learning Program

Obsidian Learning

We should consider how to measure the effectiveness of that investment. Training evaluation is usually easiest at the lowest level – the measurement of student reactions through simple surveys following a learning event. Learning does not necessarily equal improved performance. Level 1: Reaction. Level 3: Behavior.

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Future of elearning industry looks Bright!

Kapp Notes

This, in part, has led to ASTD reporting in their 2011 Learning Executive’s Confidence Index that 42% of learning executives surveyed indicated that they plan on increased expenditures on outsourced or external services to aid in the learning function and 81% anticipate resource availability to remain the same or improve in the next six months.

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Don't Dump Your L&D in a Downturn: Do These 3 Things Instead

The Training by Nelle Blog | Corporate Training and Consulting

In fact, in a CEB survey of 1,500 managers from across 50 organizations, 75% were dissatisfied with their company’s Learning & Development (L&D) function altogether. Keep costs low by investing in upskilling and retraining your current staff with cost-effective learning and training methods. 2005, January 15).

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Your 2021 Quick Guide for Employee Goal-Setting

The Training by Nelle Blog | Corporate Training and Consulting

According to Locke and Latham, setting goals are linked with higher motivation, self-esteem, self-confidence and autonomy (Locke and Latham 2006), and research has established a strong connection between goal-setting and success (Matthews 2005). Where is the employee performance-wise and where do they need to be?

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Research Shows Companies Should Encourage Social Learning

TOPYX LMS

Have a conversation with a coworker about how to perform a job task. This statistic is supported by a survey conducted by Jane Hart. The survey revealed that the average employee learns through the following methods, to the following percentages: Experience on the job – 45%. Peruse someone’s profile on a social media site.

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Training Must Swim to the Current to Survive

Living in Learning

Anything floating on the water moves most effectively when it remains aligned in the heart of the current. Using the definition above, I point to misalignment of training outcomes with mainstream business performance requirements as representing the variance with the main current. Granted it was 2005, but man!