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What Does the Training Department Do When Training Doesn’t Work?

Performance Learning Productivity

ASTD data suggests US companies spent $164billion on employee learning and development in 2012 saying that ‘ despite a continuously changing economic environment, organizations remain committed to training and development’. Training as a panacea Most learning and training professionals now understand that training is not a universal panacea.

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Identifying Employee Strengths with your LMS

Ed App

Keep scrolling to learn more. . After a decade-long of studying thousands of work teams, Gallup discovered that leveraging the strengths and skills of a team offers higher potential and growth opportunities compared to fixing what they lack or forcing them to master new skills. 10 Personnel Training Software.

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Tool Set 2009

Tony Karrer

I thought I'd kick off this year by posting a series of posts on topics related to tools and methods for work and learning. I'm hoping to address questions such as: How do you create a personal tool set or Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for yourself? What should be in your tool set?

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Thinking, Instructional Design, PWLE, Manufacturing, & Google

Big Dog, Little Dog

Also see, Does Internet democracy work? Technology Skills for Instructional Designers - Experiencing E-Learning. More than any specific set of applications, though, is the desire and motivation to learn new technology, especially to learn it independently. Rhythm - Basic Principles of Design - About.com.

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How to Find the Right SaaS for Work-From-Home Teams

KnowledgeAnywhere

If you want to find an effective LMS program, include terms like ‘learning’ and ‘remote education’ in your searches for relevant results. If you already have a tool in mind, use comparison sites to find cost-effective alternatives. Your remote team should be able to access the service 24/7 from any location. The Takeaway.

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Determinism, Best Practice, and the ‘Training Solution’

Performance Learning Productivity

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with seeing how other organisations achieve their results and trying to learn from them. When we’re dealing with human and organisational learning and performance we’re dealing with highly complicated and complex systems. What’s wrong with that, then?” you may ask. That is simply bowing to determinism.

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Learning in the Collaboration Age

Performance Learning Productivity

We may not have noticed it at the time, but the world of learning changed in 1990. And for Organisational Learning? The Web has allowed us to totally redefine our traditional learning models. It has allowed us to reach beyond content-rich learning approaches and focus on experience-rich learning.