Kapp Notes

MARCH 22, 2013

Had a great time last night with the wonder folks from the ASTD DC Metro chapter, a full house with lots of great questions and interactions. I had a great time and congratulations to Team B, the “winner” of Fact or Fishy. A well played game by both teams. Here I am with Erik. A study by Ersner-Hershfield et al.

ASTD 119

ASTD Simulations Authoring Tools Comparison 119

Learning Visions

JANUARY 28, 2010

This are my liveblogged notes from Thursday, January 28 Keynote at ASTD TechKnowledge 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. Complications: The market you see in the focus group isn’t exactly what you get More than one team can win a square and robots don’t play nice. Now have bigger teams – so higher costs – lower margins.

ASTD 133

ASTD Metrics Simulations Google Docs 133

Origin Learning

APRIL 16, 2015

Our team from Origin Learning will be exhibiting at ATD 2015 to showcase some of our award winning solutions in e-learning , m-learning and social learning. Visit us in Booth #102 and let us show you how we can help you make learning fun, engaging and effective.

Conference 100

Conference ASTD Specialist Global 100

Integrated Learnings

MARCH 14, 2012

One dusty cover that caught my eye was the January 2004 issue of Training + Development Magazine from ASTD, with this headline: 8 Trends You Need to Know NOW. Employees are focusing more on corporate responsibility and scrutinizing the integrity of management and leadership teams. 8-- A higher ethical bar. Show them the value.

Trends 123

Trends Blended Learning Diversity Training Off-shore 123

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. I am an avid film goer, music lover, bridge walker, and supporter of the Dashe & Thomson running team. It was an opportunity I couldn’t miss.

Kirkpatrick 168

Kirkpatrick Social Learning Social Networks Blogging 168

Learning Visions

MAY 7, 2014

These are my live blogged notes from a concurrent session (W104) at the ASTD International Conference & Expo, this week in Washington, D.C. Execs need to see training effectiveness -- maximizing organizational results (that''s level 3). Training effectiveness = maximizing organizational results and demonstrating program value.

Evalution 157

Evalution Effectiveness Case Study Kirkpatrick 157

Unboxed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Alternatively, eLearning provides a variety of training modalities that are both cost effective and mobile. What makes it effective?”. Mark Van Buren, director of research for ASTD, tells HR Magazine : “ It is clear that a firm’s commitment to workplace learning is directly linked to its bottom line. ” What is eLearning?

Blended Learning 52

Blended Learning Benefits Brandon Hall Corporate eLearning 52

OpenSesame

JANUARY 18, 2013

While this may mean small businesses are missing the opportunity to reduce costs by leveraging online training tools, it’s a great reminder for training managers and large businesses to make sure they’re taking advantage of all the opportunities to use their budget more effectively. Take a look at your budget.

ASTD 52

ASTD Report Social Networks Industry 52

Mindflash

APRIL 11, 2012

It isn’t often that an industry conference comes along at just a time when an organization can send its entire team. But this year, the stars aligned, and we were fortunate enough to be able to send our entire learning and development team to Denver for the ASTD International Conference and Expo. Opportunity to develop.

Conference 74

Conference Teams ASTD vendor 74

Take an e-Learning Break

AUGUST 25, 2010

I'm speaking at the Working Today - Preparing for Tomorrow - Houston ASTD Conference. The Keynote speaker is Chester Elton, co-author of The Carrot Principle, who will shares his knowledge, experience on reward, recognition and empowering organizational teams to greatness. I hope to see you there!

ASTD 53

ASTD Conference Learning Environment Authoring 53

The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 30, 2014

Leaders need tools (See: ASTD Workforce Development Blog ). A useful strategic leadership tool could be an assessment instrument, a visioning process, a strategic planning map, decision-making steps, a feedback structure, or any aid that helps a leader facilitate improvement of individual, team, and organizational performance.

Leadership 190

Leadership Benefits Tools Organizational Learning 190

Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 1, 2014

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’. Sometimes it’s more efficient and more effective not to train at all.

Diversity Training 225

Diversity Training Compliance Training Training Train 225

Kapp Notes

MAY 20, 2014

What team should I be on? The teams were chosen by favorite color or at least a color the person liked. Sneak Peak of ASTD ICE Presentation. Continuing my Work on ASTD ICE Presentation. 8 Types of Stories to Effect Change. The participants think about transferring the content as soon as the session begins.

Resources 140

Resources ASTD Gamification Poll 140

Challenge to Learn

MAY 3, 2013

In the third chapter they have a look at what ‘good’ eLearning should be, I quote: “Concise, effective learning events, whether delivered through e-Learning or not, are meaningful, memorable, and motivational. Daily stand ups, user stories, a back log, agile estimations, setting priorities, an agile team, demo’s to involve your clients.

Instructional Design 233

Instructional Design ADDIE Agile eLearning Developer 233

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Within a span of 7 months, since its launch, Upside2Go has won appreciation from some of the biggest corporates for its innovativeness and effectiveness, specifically in addressing needs of the mobile workforce. It has also been recognized as ‘Best New Product Debut’ at ASTD TechKnowledge 2011 by an independent ex-Brandon Hall consultant.

Brandon Hall 211

Brandon Hall iPhone TechKnowledge ASTD 211

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is a solution that will not only help your training department reach out to your mobile workforce easily, but would also enable a mobile-based approach to real-time sharing and collaborating, within and outside a team. Upside2Go will be formally unveiled at ASTD TechKnowledge 2011, on 3rd February at 1.00 504 throughout the event.

Change 229

Change Games LMS TechKnowledge 229

Rapid eLearning

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

How we view effective elearning is somewhat subjective. If it’s not, then how can it be effective? Following are some keys to effective elearning. Once they were made aware of this, the teams started meeting their production goals. Obviously there’s a lot more to building effective elearning than these four questions.

Effectiveness 81

Effectiveness ASTD Case Study Wiki 81

Kapp Notes

JULY 26, 2007

Around the same time, the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog had the July "Big Question" which was "Choosing Tools" which is actually a series of questions: How does the eLearning design process need to change to accommodate such a wide variety of tools? It is a great entry outlining 3 elements of good design.

Big Question 100

Big Question ASTD Wiki Design 100

Making Change

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

They could more effectively apply what they’ve learned to their jobs and to new situations. It’s a one-hour online workshop you can request for your team or ASTD chapter. If you’d like to be notified when the online course is available, please sign up here and you’ll be among the first to hear about it.

Cognitive 274

Cognitive ASTD Asynchronous Instructional 274

The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In the online course that I teach for ASTD on Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , one of the questions I hear most often is, “How can I change the culture in my company when there is little support from management and our unions resist any change that might affect the work rules?” This question has no easy answer.

Culture 196

Culture Organization Change Organizational Learning 196

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

These are my live blogged notes from Thursday’s keynote at ASTD TK11 with Karen Wickre (Global Communications Team) and Ann Farmer from Google. In a digital world, things don’t have to taxonimized in that same way… Identifying where metadata is a side-effect of behavior. In the physical world, things have a place.

FAQ 200

FAQ Write Blog ASTD Social Media 200

ID Reflections

MAY 11, 2010

We should! ~@ dwilkinsnh #ISPI #ASTD GenY has a tribe. Could SoMe help remote Sales Teams respond better to RFPs? Could SoMe help Field Marketing Teams do their work? Could SoMe help a Global Team do their work? The " Cluetrain " effect is here to stay. SoMe is largely driven by groups other than L&D.

ISPI 168

ISPI Skype Social Learning Social 168

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

This post specifically talks about how a Mobile Learning Platform can be used as an effective Performance Support System. We unveiled our mobile learning solution – Upside2Go – at ASTD TechKnowledge 2011. In an earlier blog post, I had written about how Microlearning is changing the face of learning at the workplace.

Performance Support 252

Performance Support Mobile Learning Mobile Support 252

The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

This is the question I will be answering in an ASTD-sponsored webcast on September 24, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. Individual, team, and enterprise performance can’t improve without learning. By “learning” I mean acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that help individuals, teams, and whole organizations improve performance.

Roles 207

Roles Performance Support Performance Management 207

Tony Karrer

JUNE 7, 2008

Through the post on Conference Balance an in thinking about the keynotes at ASTD that I attended ( ASTD Keynote - Malcolm Gladwell , Dysfunctional Teams ), I realized that one of the reasons that I like going to conferences is it forces me (sometimes slowly and painfully) to get exposed to a diversity of topics.

PWLE 142

PWLE ASTD Conference Tagging 142

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 1, 2012

He is the author of seven book including a best-seller on creating effective e-learning and in has received ASTD’s Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award in 2011. Michael Allen and I sit down and discuss the Zebra program at ASTD conference way back in 2011. I felt I was sharing the best process.

Instructional Design 254

Instructional Design ADDIE Authoring Tools Conversation 254

Mindflash

APRIL 10, 2012

But now, by being closer to the team, I get to catch employees doing great things, and I post them on our “Brag Board.” By being more immediately available, I can help handle training issues right away, or I can record it and go over it during our weekly team meeting. Meetings became more effective. Workers … work.

Effectiveness 68

Effectiveness Creative Commons ASTD Privacy 68

Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Effective Metrics for Learning and Development I wonder what Shaw would think if he saw the way learning and development is predominantly measured in organisations today. The same applies to taking part in a difficult workplace task or participating in a team activity. Raelin’s work is something every L&D professional should read.

Metrics 186

Metrics Personal Personalization Diversity Training 186

Upside Learning

APRIL 16, 2013

Create a list of all stakeholders who will be a part of your blended learning program, right from the management personnel, the technical team, and instructors to the end users (learners). ASTD ICE 2013 | May 19 – 22 | Dallas, TX, USA | Stand #839. Stakeholders. Learning Resources. Upcoming Events. FREE eBook.

Blended Learning 244

Blended Learning Blended LMS Virtual Classroom 244

Marcia Conner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

From the ASTD 2012 State of the Industry (full report available to ASTD members, non-members for a fee): More than $156 billion was spent by U.S. ASTD estimates that U.S. Organizations described by ASTD as BEST excel at weaving learning into the corporate culture. organizations on [formal] employee learning in 2012. .

Blended Learning 103

Blended Learning ASTD Budget PeopleSoft 103

Clark Quinn

JUNE 7, 2008

Through the post on Conference Balance an in thinking about the keynotes at ASTD that I attended ( ASTD Keynote - Malcolm Gladwell , Dysfunctional Teams ), I realized that one of the reasons that I like going to conferences is it forces me (sometimes slowly and painfully) to get exposed to a diversity of topics.

PWLE 114

PWLE ASTD Conference Tagging 114

Knowledge Guru

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Mathias learned about Knowledge Guru when we launched the Game Creation Wizard at ASTD International, and he was an early adopter of the tool. And where is the Sales Retail team, as the Out-of-home team takes the charge in this battle. They can still beat the mysterious Royvalle. Are they afraid? Who can beat them?

Knowledge 220

Knowledge Player Games ASTD 220

The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

ASTD reports an increase in spending on L&D in 2010 (latest year for which data is available); they estimate companies spent about $171.5 Keep employee satisfaction high – Involving employees in opportunities to learn is an effective way to increase engagement. in 2011 – the largest gain in three years.

Simulations 157

Simulations Training Train ASTD 157

Upside Learning

APRIL 17, 2013

The advantages to having an experienced (read ageing) staff in your team are manifold. While this one-to-one help is great, your LMS could effectively make it one-to-many by capturing the knowledge for easy access by future generations. ASTD ICE 2013 | May 19 – 22 | Dallas, TX, USA | Stand #839. Upcoming Events.

Knowledge 229

Knowledge Wiki LMS Blended Learning 229

Learning Visions

JANUARY 27, 2014

These are my live blogged notes from a session on the final day of ASTD Tech Knowledge with Phillip Neal, VP of Business Need at Maestro. Through the application, people can rate the content and give feedback to T&D group about how effective. Mobile is different. Users could now search for the BEST content.

Phillips 161

Phillips CD-ROM Case Study Mobile 161

Enyota Learning

MAY 22, 2019

They are the key point of contact – are they promoting the principal message of your brand effectively? People aren’t necessarily born team players. Training topics that add to effective collaboration include conflict resolution, change management, goal-setting, etc. Training Promotes Teamwork. Training Ensures Sustainability.

Training 60

Training Train ASTD Companies 60

Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 16, 2011

5 PowerPoint tips essential for effective rapid elearning. From the PowerPoint Team Blog. Templates from the PowerPoint team. If you’re at the ASTD event check out one of the sessions or swing by the Articulate booth. September 15 : Lincoln, NE (ASTD)— Become a Rapid E-Learning Pro. $80 A Picture + 1000 Words….

PowerPoint 84

PowerPoint Rapid eLearning Tips ASTD 84