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No Time to Learn

The Performance Improvement Blog

And short, weekly conversations between managers and their direct reports would be far more than is typical in organizations today and could go a long way to support learning. They need the cooperation and collaboration of everyone in the organization. HR and Training departments can’t do it alone.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Employees are hearing in a timely way from their bosses about what they need to learn and why they need to learn it. Functional units collaborate by sharing learning and best practices with each other. More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work.

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This Is What I Believe About Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Consider the alternatives: just-in-time e-learning (desktop and mobile), coaching, mentoring, simulations, on-demand video, and experiential-learning. And in some situations people might learn best from the workflow, through action-learning conversations, through self-directed experiences, or from apprentice and internship assignments.

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Active and Passive Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Working collaboratively within their team (sharing resources, ideas and experiences). Otherwise, I fear they will continue to be overlooked even though for many individuals, teams, and organizations they are more powerful learning methods and more likely to result in organizational improvement than the “passive” methods.

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A Manager's View of Employee Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

This is especially true for those organizations with a culture of hierarchy, command-and-control, departmental/functional silos, active and sometimes manipulative competition between managers for recognition and promotion, and less-than-excellent history of departmental collaboration. .

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The Essential Guide to Learning Analytics in the Age of Big Data

Lambda Solutions

If we could understand learners’ behaviours and activities, and find correlations to their learning success or failure, we could help people become more successful in their online courses. This use of big data to improve online learning is called learning analytics. Actionable Learning Analytics. Course progress.

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