Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.”

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 6, 2011

Check out these links for more insight on the topic: [link] [link] [link] And in case you read through this entire article in the hopes of hearing the song by Simon & Garfunkel, and are now really upset, here you go: Blog this! Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 27, 2011

Train Your Client On Training → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Thanks for a thoughtful post!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 25, 2011

An excellent article from Cross Pollination Media, titled “ Are ‘Digital Natives’ Better Suited for Mobile Learning? When Im not busy helping to change the face of corporate learning, I like to train with the Dashe & Thomson company bike team, travel and read. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

Or you can challenge yourself and your client, allow them to see past what they’re used to and consider an approach that would produce results more in line with their business objectives. This article by Tom Kuhlman provides some great tips on helping your client see training differently. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Degreed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The financial hardships rooted in Covid-19 — now compounded by threat of recession — can devastate your company’s revenue and obliterate any business unit. If you want L&D to remain essential, now’s the time to closely align your learning with the most critical goals of your overall business. Show impact and ROI.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 21, 2011

From a recent article at Knowledge@Wharton called Technology and Teaching: Flipping the Model : Khan stumbled upon the idea for his free web-based academy while trying to teach math to cousins in New Orleans. Quickly, the videos gained an online following, grew like wildfire, and today Khan Academy has delivered more than 42 million lessons.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 11, 2011

These dynamics have been around for thousands of years, and have been written about extensively for decades – like in this 1973 article by Mark Granvotter in the American Journal of Sociology, The Strength of Weak Ties. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 1, 2011

Matt Blum at GeekDad wrote an article this week called Why Watson’s Jeopardy Win is Mostly Meaningless saying: IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! The fact that a computer can win a trivia contest that relies on fast reflexes and fast information retrieval doesn’t seem much like news to me.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 7, 2011

In an aptly named article, “ Why Charlie Sheen Should be Your Social Media Manager ,” Osas Obaiza at iMedia Connection brings up an interesting example of how this plays in the external marketing world: Take a look at the McDonald’s Twitter account, it boasts at paltry 90,925 following. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Docebo

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If possible, make the employee-to-mentor ratio as small as possible, so that every staff member gets a chance to communicate with their mentor on a consistent basis. Send employees weekly emails with links to articles, online videos, quizzes, or presentations they may find useful. Provide optional online learning materials.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Before you commit to delivering a project based on these ratios (or buying services from someone based on them), it is useful to keep a few things in mind about eLearning Development Ratios: 1. More often than not, however, these guidelines can be dangerously misleading. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Thank you so much.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 27, 2010

According to an article released by mlive.com , more than a quarter of new jobs created this past year were temporary jobs. Business confidence is still extremely low. Businesses are increasingly organizing around shorter-term projects. And according to another story from the New York Times , that trend is expected to continue.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

In his recent Wired article (March 2011) “Better Living Through Games,” Clive Thompson describes how editors at UK’s Guardian newspaper created a web app videogame to involve the public in analyzing millions of pounds’ worth of bogus personal expenses filed by British politicians. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. IOL is facilitated through the use of tools like Yammer that connect coworkers across the globe. ASL, by definition, can happen anytime, anywhere. Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did.

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Tesseract Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Such lack of knowledge retention can harm the business of your organization. Research studies also indicate that social learning methods deliver a better ROI (almost 75:1 ratio) when compared to traditional classroom training. I hope you find this article insightful and that it helps you enhance your virtual learning sessions.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Before you commit to delivering a project based on these ratios (or buying services from someone based on them), it is useful to keep a few things in mind about eLearning Development Ratios: 1. More often than not, however, these guidelines can be dangerously misleading. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Thank you so much.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

The number one most asked question by social media marketers was, “How do I measure the effect of social media marketing on my business?” I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it. Instead of getting answers, by the time it was over I found myself asking more questions. They both do great work.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

Look for businesses you love, people you know, or news sources you read. TweetDeck – I recently read an article stating that if you aren’t salaried by a big company to generate brand new ideas, it’s a waste of your time to do so. Well if that’s the case, I expect to see TweetDeck start to make some noise in the business community.

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WhatFix

MARCH 31, 2023

With the growing importance of L&D departments in digital transformation initiatives, there is a need for L&D teams to demonstrate how effective each training program is and how it contributes to business outcomes and objectives. Results that the learner’s performance has on the business.

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Disprz

JUNE 18, 2021

How can you justify the ROI for training and development with a high attrition rate? Mr. Kuljit Chadha, Co-founder, and COO of Disprz answers key questions related to enterprise learning and skilling in an insightful podcast hosted by Mr. Another key trend that we have seen is around the completion ratios. What’s your opinion on that?

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

The number one most asked question by social media marketers was, “How do I measure the effect of social media marketing on my business?” I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it. Instead of getting answers, by the time it was over I found myself asking more questions. They both do great work.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

That’s why this article from Terrence Wing is so intriguing. Tweets Follow @dashethomson on Twitter Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

That’s why this article from Terrence Wing is so intriguing. Tweets Follow @dashethomson on Twitter Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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Disprz

JUNE 4, 2021

Renowned names of the industry like Amazon, Starbucks, Coca-Cola have used analytics to derive critical behavioral insights to enhance business operations and improve customer satisfaction. Learning programs are often implemented by a company to help employees produce certain business outputs. What can you do with skill analytics?

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 14, 2009

There's been a lot of research on this, and answers vary anywhere from 20% to 80% of the original length, but there's general agreement that an average compression ratio is typically about 50% , or a four hour course in the classroom should take the student 2 hours to complete online. Brandon Hall reports it is a 2:1 ratio.

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Acorn Labs

JULY 31, 2023

In this article, we'll discuss how to design a women's leadership program to enable effective leadership development for women despite the challenges they face in the workplace. In terms of business, potential candidates tend to look towards the overall gender diversity of companies before making a decision about where to work.

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Acorn Labs

JULY 31, 2023

In this article, we'll discuss how to design a women's leadership program to enable effective leadership development for women despite the challenges they face in the workplace. In terms of business, potential candidates tend to look towards the overall gender diversity of companies before making a decision about where to work.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2013

The longtime University of Wisconsin at Madison professor wrote a series of articles in 1959 for the American Society for Training and Development that outlined what became known as the four levels of evaluation — reaction, learning, behavior and results. Jack Phillips, chairman of ROI Institute Inc.,

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Disprz

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For the stakes are just too high, and more than a one-time ROI, videos have to score high on repeat value. Here are 9 smart tips to help you create top-notch learning & training videos: #1 Align all business stakeholders and get the purpose agreed upon. Does this article solve all your questions related to training video content?

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EI Design

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this article, I share the benefits of social learning and show you how you can use microlearning videos as an effective social learning tool. Do take a look at the following facts and you will change your mind: Social learning approaches have a 75:1 ROI ratio over web-based training (Association for Talent Development).

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EI Design

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This article outlines how you can use social learning effectively to engage your learners. You can refer to my article Why You Should Adopt Social Learning to know more about how these theories establish the need to integrate social learning components in corporate training and how social learning can benefit learners and organizations alike.

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