The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Maybe there was a time when you could learn a set of skills in your youth and then build a career around those abilities. The pace of change is too fast and no occupation is insulated from disruptive innovation. The only way to keep pace and maybe even get ahead of the curve is to keep learning. Not anymore.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2017

Part of the learning leader’s job is to develop organizational learning strategies. For one thing, organizations aren’t reviewing their learning and development strategies very often. But, the aforementioned Brandon Hall study reports that strategic leveraging of learning resources must be done consistently.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This is a future in which workers are smarter, more agile, and more innovative. To survive and thrive today, industries need innovation which is essentially about learning. Innovation is how to use products and services in new ways that rapidly respond to changing market demands and create new products and services.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Managers don’t recognize and reward employees for learning new skills. Creativity and innovation are discouraged; leaders cling to the status quo. Given the times we live in, managers must make ongoing learning and performance improvement part of what they do on a day-to-day basis for themselves and for the people they supervise.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

Encourage risk-taking – Organizations that seek new solutions to old problems, creativity and innovation in their operations and products, employees who “think outside the box” and “walk the talk”, need to allow managers to make mistakes and learn from those experiences. This learning cannot be left to chance.

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Learning Pool

JANUARY 11, 2022

Now some might think that switching from e-courses to e-resources might be the way to solve the problem but I think they are missing the underlying problem of how we harness the energy of others to power learning. We need more humane learning design and more humane learning journeys. Skills, Skills, Skills.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Department meetings – often a lost opportunity for learning, these gatherings can be designed so that participants learn about processes such as planning, project management, innovation, and evaluation. Testing knowledge – using results of knowledge tests to facilitate more learning.

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