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Manager's Role in Learning and Performance Improvement

The Performance Improvement Blog

Google did a study of its employees and found that managers are successful in Google, not because of their technical expertise, although that’s important, but because of what they do to help team members learn and develop and achieve success. Four trends are making continuous learning an essential part of doing business today.

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Being clear on collaboration

Clark Quinn

Google Docs), but it’s central. And it can happen asynchronously as well, with people adding, elaborating, editing whenever they have time, and the information evolves. However, what was on offer wasn’t this capability. It’s not new, it’s been the basis of wikis (e.g. Anything else is, well, something else.

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The Six Hats Of A Community Manager

Learnnovators

Employees, who have been using emails and, perhaps, mailing lists and google groups till then as their mode of communication and collaboration, are now expected to use the collaboration platform for their day to day business. And to be honest, email is the most frictionless, asynchronous mode of communication today.

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MOOCs In Workplace Learning – Part 1: Some Points To Consider

Learnnovators

They can probably learn via more informal and social means—both synchronous and asynchronous. What is the value proposition of a MOOC in workplace learning? Why should an organization go the MOOC way? Distributed organizations with dispersed employees working across different time zones face unique training challenges.

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MOOCS IN WORKPLACE LEARNING – PART 1: SOME POINTS TO CONSIDER

Learnnovators

They can probably learn via more informal and social means—both synchronous and asynchronous. What is the value proposition of a MOOC in workplace learning? Why should an organization go the MOOC way? Distributed organizations with dispersed employees working across different time zones face unique training challenges.