Jay Cross

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Google+ Learning in Organizations Community is up to 240 members. Last month, I asked “What books would you recommend to someone who’s new to organizational learning and wants a feel for what’s going on?” Michael: 9780917917080: Amazon.com: Books. One of my many seminal books.

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eLearning Cyclops

AUGUST 29, 2010

Last Thursday, #lrnchat's topic was "book talk" and question five was great fun. The question posed was "What are book titles you hope never to see?" Quinnovator : “Investing in Organizational Learning: The Cost Center Approach” Dave_Ferguson : Take It to the River: How Hammurabi the CEO Dealt with Naysayers and Nitpickers.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2021

This is actually the ‘cover story’ myth of my recent book on myths! A second one emerges when there’s an (unjustified) claim that learning should have 3E’s: Entertaining, Enlightening, and Engaging. I do agree with Engaging (per the title of my first book), however, there’s a problem with it.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I don’t know if John Baldoni intended his latest leadership book to be about learning, but that’s exactly what it is about. Through other leaders’ stories and through his own experiences, Baldoni describes what outstanding leaders learn in order to be effective. He has an acronym for it: MOXIE.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

> If you have read any of the following books I will highly appreciate if you share your opinion with the e-Learning community. => If you have read any of the following books I will highly appreciate if you share your opinion with the e-Learning community. =>

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 9, 2014

Smith (author of The Wisdom of Teams ) writes in the Forward to the book, Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practice : Today, you cannot avoid human questions like these: What must I learn next? What do I need to be learning in order to be more productive? How can we learn best?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

However, they do have to believe that people can learn and change, they have to care about their own learning, and they have to value the development of the people they supervise. If they have these beliefs and values, then managers can contribute significantly to learning in their organizations.

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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.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In a podcast produced for ATD, I explain why organizations need to change from this “training culture” to a “learning culture”. And in the online workshop that I facilitate for ATD titled, Essentials of Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , we talk about what you can do to develop a learning culture in your organization.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2014

In this environment, people need to be continually figuring out different ways to learn, whether that be individually using new technology, or in teams that are trying to become more effective, or as the whole organization learning how to communicate, how to use resources more efficiently, or how to make better decisions.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2013

a new book by Richard Sheridan, Co-Founder and CEO of Menlo, we read how his company makes joy the center of its business model. . One of the things I like about the book is that Sheridan lets the reader in on things they did with employees, with processes, and with clients that didn’t go well. In Joy, Inc. ,

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

The culture of traditional, hierarchical organizations does not allow for the scope and speed of learning, adaptation, and innovation that is needed to compete and be successful in today’s environment. Only then can you determine what needs to change in order to create a culture that supports learning, adaptation, and innovation. .

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In a new book titled, Getting Unstuck ( Download a free chapter.), Leadership Management Organization Culture Organizational Learning Teamwork Getting Unstuck learning Ralph Jacobson' The statements are paradoxes that confront every leader in organizations today.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

One is personalization of learning. Courses, books, articles, videos, and online practice groups can be accessed according to the learning needs of each employee. What other major trends do you see that will shape the future of employee learning? Tools of a Learning Organization. Related articles.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

But people who don't see their actions as experiments, and those who don't know how to reason carefully from data, will continue to learn less well from their own experiences than those who do. To me, experimentation is an essential aspect of organizational learning. It’s action learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

These changes are having an enormous impact on what and how people need to learn. In a book by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson titled, “The Second Machine Age,” the authors describe the situation this way: …as computers get more powerful, companies have less need for some kinds of workers.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 11, 2014

Transfer of learning to the workplace continues to be a vexing problem for organizations. Twenty-two years ago Mary Broad and John Newstrom published their landmark book, Transfer of Training , in which they argued that not much training gets applied in the workplace. Sadly, not much has changed since then.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 6, 2011

However, it is the process of creating a dashboard that is the most powerful evaluation and learning experience for an organization. The [dashboard] is just the locus of energy for a process of evaluation and organizational learning that involves critical decisions about what is important to measure and what should be done about the results.”

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 21, 2014

Clawson in their chapter in the book, Creating a Learning Culture , write this about competition and learning: Today it seems that organizations need to be able to do more than just adapt: they must become agile in the face of constantly changing conditions. New competitors in every sector are cropping up daily.

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There Is No Chalk

JUNE 6, 2011

June's Big Question over at LCB asks how WLP professionals might break down organizational walls to learning. I want to borrow that theme.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I have been thinking for a long time about what we, as L&D, need to and can do to foster a culture of sharing and collaborative learning to meet the challenges of a distributed workplace with dispersed expertise and complex work situations. In my mind, working out loud can be one of the means to strengthen organizational learning.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 15, 2015

In their recently published book, titled Leading Innovation and Change , Larry Smith and Al Blixt write: The forces of change are multidirectional and inescapable, especially if you are in a leadership position. They know how to teach but they don’t necessarily know how to learn as organizations.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 13, 2010

Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll have launched the age of virtual worlds in organizational learning by providing a thorough overview in their new book Learning in 3D. This is a comprehensive and eloquent book, covering the emerging opportunity in virtual worlds. Recommended.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Maybe Apple allowed smart people to act smart, but most companies set up cultural barriers that prevent people from learning and applying that learning to improving organizational performance. Chris Argyris referred to these “stupid” behaviors as “organizational defenses”. This is what Grebow and I call "managing minds."

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I expect they’re seeing more info dump/knowledge test, more and more ‘ click to learn more ‘, more tarted-up drill-and-kill. What is the most significant change technology has made to organizational learning in the past decade? What are the most significant challenges facing organizational learning today?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 16, 2014

For example: Menlo Innovations - In the Menlo culture the message to employees, both implicitly and explicitly, is that everyone is learning together how to best serve clients while creating a work environment of joy and meaning. CEO Richard Sheridan describes this culture in his new book Joy, Inc.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s time for me to formally announce that the site for my forthcoming mobile learning book, Designing mLearning , is now live and ready to visit. On it, you’ll find the ‘about the book’ info, the gracious endorsements from some truly great and kind people, and more. So, get going! And I do keep track.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 31, 2014

They know that learning is critical to success, whether it’s a technician who needs to know how to install an armrest on a state of the art, ergonomic office chair, or an executive leadership team that needs to know how to do strategic planning. And people realize that facilitating learning doesn’t necessarily take much time.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 3, 2016

When I ask the training and development leaders who participate in my ATD Essentials of Developing an Organizational Learning Culture workshop to say what percentage of employees who attend training programs actually apply what they’ve learned on the job, the answers range from about 10% to about 50%, with most at the lower end of that range.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 5, 2018

I’ve used this quip quite a bit, as it’s essentially the rationale for the Revolution book. It’s about the state of Learning & Development, and sums up one perspective fairly succinctly: L&D isn’t doing near what it could and should be, and what it is doing it’s doing badly.

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Paradiso

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This Online Training management software in 2023 provides an ecosystem of features and modules customized to meet organizational learning goals. All initiatives related to learning, including blended, social, and mobile learning, are supported by the feature-rich and highly secure online-only system.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 16, 2009

If you want to see and hear about the potential of virtual worlds for corporate learning, work and collaboration, check out this video created by Ron Burns the CEO of ProtonMedia , the creators of ProtoSphere. The video does a good job of positioning virtual worlds in the context of organizational learning, collaboration and innovation.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

They are as much a part of me as all things learning. In the future too, I see this blog being intermittently peppered with posts unrelated to organizational learning but delineating experiences that are of personal import. Building Expertise deals with learning and training as it needs to be.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 22, 2010

Today, I met some wonderful folks at at Learning Tree International's Learning Leader's Forum. Web site for the book Learning in 3D. If you would like to purchase the book, you can receive a 20% discount directly from the publisher. You can read Chapter One of the book to get a sense of what the book is about.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In 1994, The Learning Alliance was published. This book, by Rob Brinkerhoff and myself, made the case that HRD (human resource development) was changing dramatically and that the key to employee learning had shifted from the training department to the relationship (i.e.,

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 9, 2010

In my last post I wrote about Nancy Lublin’s new book, Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business , and her notion that for-profit companies have much to learn from well-managed nonprofits. She says in that post that businesses should learn three major financial lessons from nonprofits: 1.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 18, 2014

After an academic career, Dr. Quinn served as an executive in online and elearning initiatives and has an international reputation as a speaker and scholar, with four books and numerous articles and chapters to his credit. Learnnovators: What are the latest trends in organizational learning & development, and performance support?

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