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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

This blog has made it onto Debbie Laskey’s “top 10” list  of blogs. She writes: I have assembled my “Top 10” list with names, descriptions, blog links, and Twitter handles.   Tags: Leadership Leadership Development blogs leadership top 10.

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APRIL 13, 2012

External blog and news feeds (reading subscribed resources). Content curated from external sources (daily summaries of key articles, blog posts, etc). External personal and professional networks and communities (including online social networks like Facebook and Twitter).

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APRIL 6, 2016

I rarely post a guest blog, but in this case I couldn’t resist posting Bernard Donkerbrook’s reaction to my last blog post. Bernie wrote this in response to my last blog post: Steve, your 5As material is so good. Bernie is a long-time automotive company manager and experienced engineer. The logic and specifics are great.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

My blog is now featured on Tony Karrer’s collaborative blog, eLearningLearning. He describes his blog in   this way: eLearning Learning   is a collection of blog posts and articles all around eLearning. You can find the same “Browse My Stuff” search tool for my blog in the lower left column.

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MARCH 5, 2015

I have argued in previous blog posts that organizations need a learning culture because training is not sufficient to develop the necessary competencies of 21rst century workers. In a blog post titled, Job Training Funds Go to Workers Who Need It Least, Liz Suman cites a report by Anthony P. Mike Hyatt makes this case in a blog post.

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JULY 24, 2013

The following post first appeared on this blog in November 2010. . Kirsten Ellenbogen describes some of these methods on the American Evaluation Association blog. Informal learning in organizations is finally being recognized as a key aspect of employee development and performance improvement.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In a post that David Grebow and I wrote for the Association for Talent Development Management Blog, we present an abridged history of work and learning and how work and learning are, necessarily, much different in the 21rst century than they were in the past two centuries.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

[Note: I apologize to my readers for failing to post on this blog for the past two months. Dan Pontefract, in a blog post for Forbes , suggests ways in which people can find the time they need for learning. I have been dealing with a health challenge that diverted my attention from professional activities.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

As I wrote in a previous blog post titled, The Manager's Abridged History of Work and Learning : . In a blog post that David Grebow and I wrote for ATD titled, Changing the Way We Manage Learning in the Knowledge Economy, we said: In the 1920s, the average lifespan of leading U.S. companies was 67 years.

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JULY 2, 2015

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart ’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g.,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most frequently visited posts on this blog is “ What Gets Measured Gets Done…or Not.” A better way to talk about measurement in organizations is the way Terry Starbucker writes about it in his blog post titled, The Truth About “If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It” , a variation of the first axiom.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

Paul Matthews, in a blog post titled, “The future of training is not training,” argues that workplace training needs to be about building capability not delivering courses. He writes: Many people in training seldom stop to think why they are doing the training.

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APRIL 24, 2014

I want interested readers of this blog to easily find information about the 5As Framework. In part, this is because of an online course I am facilitating for ASTD titled, Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , and because of a presentation I gave in the ZingTrain Speaker Series. Therefore, I am summarizing information in this post.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Throughout 2013, I used this blog to illuminate important leadership and management issues. As a way of review, I’ve selected five blog posts from the past year that seem to have had the most interest for readers.

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MAY 31, 2013

As I explained in a post on ASTD ''s Workforce Development Blog, four trends are increasing the importance of a manager''s role as faciliator of learning: Technology has contributed to a DIY environment for learning. The Internet has become a tremendoous source of knowledge and skills.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Rajeev Peshawaria wrote about “The Great Training Robbery” in a Forbes blog post in 2011. Roberta Holland, in her summary of an interview of Michael Beer for Harvard Business School’s “Working Knowledge” blog , provides an answer: Too often CEOs turn to HR to create a training program when faced with a problem.

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DECEMBER 19, 2014

In a blog post titled, "Building a Productive Learning Culture", Thomas Handcock and Jean Martin say that businesses, because of need and demand, are increasing employee participation in training but failing to increase productivity.

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JANUARY 30, 2014

Leaders need tools (See: ASTD Workforce Development Blog ). Just as a carpenter wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint, saw, hammer, and screwdriver, a leader shouldn’t try to build an organization without the methods and processes that facilitate organizational learning and change.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

I agree and have blogged about this issue previously. See my blog post on this topic. Shawn Murphy, in his blog post, “ Bring Humanity Back to Work ” offers suggestions to CEOs regarding what they can do to quell the turnover storm. Times article. Retention will become a serious problem for any company seeking high performance.

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MAY 29, 2018

That blog post is repeated here: . Again, I commend Starbucks for attacking the problem but I continue to have my doubts about the long term effects of their approach. On April 19, 2018, I wrote about these concerns. Diversity and inclusion must be rooted in the processes and life of the organization.

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MAY 29, 2018

That blog post is repeated here: . Again, I commend Starbucks for attacking the problem but I continue to have my doubts about the long term effects of their approach. On April 19, 2018, I wrote about these concerns. Diversity and inclusion must be rooted in the processes and life of the organization.

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MARCH 6, 2014

Josh Bersin writes in a recent blog post titled, Why Companies Need a Chief Learning Architect , that the technology of learning (digital and otherwise) has become so disorganized, dis-integrated, and confusing in large companies that they need someone to have responsibility for managing all of the learning resources.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In a blog post titled, “ Why We Need Mutually Beneficial Relationships at Work ”, Shawn Murphy points out the importance of this learning relationship: First, we need a relationship between leaders and employees that hones in on expectations of everyone involved in the work relationship.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

In my February 10th blog post , I wrote about the importance of visioning and how Ari Weinzweig uses visioning with much success within Zingerman's, the company that he co-founded 25 years ago in Ann Arbor, Michigan. One commentor to my blog reminded me that some executives of large companies do not see the value of visioning.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Meghan Biro, in a blog post for Forbes titled "Your Employees Are Engaged.REALLY?", Examples of "how" are offered in Marla Gottschalk's blog post How to Develop a More Creative Workplace. makes a distinction between the "what" and "why" of workplace culture. She gives some excellent suggestions for how managers can promote creativity.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

It’s time to do a little year-end reflecting on my blog posts from 2012. Throughout last year I used this blog to illuminate important leadership and management issues. The blog post must have hit a nerve because it has broken the record for most comments to a single HBR Blog Network post. .

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

You might wonder why I have returned to this topic from time to time in a blog devoted to Improving management and leadership. Garr Reynolds also offers some excellent suggestions in his blog post, Top Ten Slide Tips. Their slides become a distraction rather than a tool in helping me draw meaning from what they are saying.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

Throughout 2014, I used this blog to illuminate important leadership and management issues. As a way of review, I’ve selected five blog posts from the past year that seem to have had the most interest for readers.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

He writes in his blog : The problem, then, is where do you come in? Aaron Silvers offers some very insightful comments to Quinn’s blog post. Given this blindspot, Clark Quinn asks the critical question that all trainers and learning specialists should be asking themselves. What is the fog-penetrating terminology that will help??

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JANUARY 13, 2012

In my last blog post , I wrote about the Harvard Business Review blogger Dan Pallotta and his post titled, “I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore.” He writes about business buzz words and how they get in the way of clear communication.

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JULY 12, 2016

[This post first appeared on the Learning to be Great Blog.]. Given the disruptive age in which we live, companies need “strategic leaders”. However, there is a shortage. A study by PwC found that only eight percent of senior executives can be considered strategic leaders, defined as “effective at leading transformations.”

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JULY 3, 2014

As I wrote in a previous blog post , Ford CEO Alan Mulally led Ford through a culture change that was critical to going from billions of dollars in losses each year to billions of dollars in profit. Will managers share information with each other without fear of losing control or losing power? Some might say, “GM is too big to change.”

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MAY 10, 2013

In his blog post , “Stop Evaluating Training!”, Amit Garg summarizes a presentation that Robert O. Brinkerhoff gave at the Australian Institute of Training and Development conference in April. Garg relates Brinkerhoff’s comments to the challenges of measuring the effectiveness of elearning programs.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

As I wrote in my last blog post titled, Temps Are People, Too , temporary and contract workers have become an essential segment of our economy, relied on heavily by business, government, and nonprofits to do work on an as-needed basis.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

ATD Science of Learning Blog, Tuesday, July 08, 2014. https://www.td.org/Publications/Blogs/Science-of-Learning-Blog/2014/07/70-20-10-Where-Is-the-Evidence. [3] ATD Science of Learning Blog. [4] 2] Andrew Jefferson, Roy Pollock.”70:20:10: 70:20:10: Where Is the Evidence?”,

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JUNE 20, 2016

John Boudreau, in an HBR blog post , writes that “five fundamental forces” are driving change in the workplace: Shift from traditional hierarchies and social contracts to more flexible work arrangements and more project-based and collaborative work agreements.

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APRIL 26, 2011

She describes her own tendency to pay attention to the number of blog hits, Twitter followers, Facebook friends, and book sales, as if these numbers are a measure of her selfworth. Alina Tugend writes in the New York Times about our society’s preoccupation with counting things as if assigning a number to something makes it valuable.

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