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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work. This informal learning is facilitated by coaching, mentoring, communities-of-practice, experiments, action-learning and any of a myriad of other methods including the various forms of social media.

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Roleplay – people (usually two or three) acting out roles to learn about themselves and others by putting themselves in somebody else’s shoes. Reflection-in-actionlearning from reflecting on an activity while doing it. Reflection-on-actionlearning from reflecting on an activity by looking back on what happened.

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Highlights From Day Two of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer Magazine Symposium

CLO Magazine

Day two of the Spring 2011 Chief Learning Officer magazine Symposium continued with more innovative learning strategies in Amelia Island, Fla. Bill Whitmore, CEO of AlliedBarton Security Services began the morning with a keynote on how to drive business performance through leadership branding.

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Are Managers Too Busy to Learn?

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of the barriers to creating and sustaining a learning culture in organizations is the no-time myth. Managers resist attending formal training events and participating in other kinds of learning activities (elearning, mentoring, coaching, action-learning, communities of practice, internal wikis, etc.)

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50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 (3)

Jay Cross

Communities of practice. A Community of Practice (CoP) is a social network of people who identify with one another professionally (e.g. Chefs and workers in the kitchen who aspire to be chefs are a community of practice. Newcomers learn the ropes from working alongside veterans.

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Revamping 70-20-10

CLO Magazine

It became a foundation for the work at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), which continues today and has been adopted by many global organizations — including IBM, SAP, General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Farmers Insurance and American Express. Further, 70-20-10 was established pre-Internet.

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Through the Workscape Looking Glass

Jay Cross

We hear that if “it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” yet most corporate learning and development is broken. 77% of the senior managers surveyed by the Corporate Leadership Council reported they were dissatisfied with L&D. Action learning. Personal Learning Network. Peer learning. Communities of Practice.

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