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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?

CLO Magazine

Mentoring and coaching strategies translate to better employee engagement and retention. But it pays to know the key differences between coaching and mentoring to implement an effective program. One of the major effects of the recession was a lack of investment in developing business skills for younger, midlevel workers.

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The next normal

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s only been a few months since lockdown, and everyone’s been scrambling to keep business continuity ticking over. There will never be a better opportunity for tapping social tools like Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Jive, etc to unlock the knowledge trapped in the LMS and other stores of information all through your organization.

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6 Steps To Creating Learning Ecosystems (And Why You Should Bother)

Learnnovators

More than a fixed environment, the word ‘ecosystem’ implies complex interactions and continued growth which might include: a range of people (managers, peers, mentors, coaches). social networks (yammer, chatter). just-in-time performance tools (checklists, quick reference guides). processes (six sigma, kaizen).

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My 15 favourite Australian e-learning bloggers

E-Learning Provocateur

Since then, she has joined Dachis Group where she and James Dellow write about social business on the Headshift blog. Stephen Colman – To be perfectly honest, I only stumbled upon Steve’s musings after his employer and mine merged and he started banging on about stuff on Yammer.

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To Incentivize or Not: Challenges in Implementation of Enterprise Social Networks

OpenSesame

Yesterday, Dan Pontefract published a thought-provoking post on the pros and cons of offering incentives to employees for participation in professional social networks like Yammer or SocialCast. and Test Driving Yammer.). Time is on Your Side. In my experience, however, the biggest obstacle to adoption is time. Making Time.

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Flexing Your Tools to Create Maximum-Impact Online Training

Mindflash

Integrate social networks, like Yammer , to allow your workforce to collaborate, communicate, socialize, and create informal learning spaces outside of (but connected to) formal learning spaces. Integration with social networks, like Yammer, allow for after-training conversations, mentoring, knowledge sharing and informal learning.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Imagine a senior executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company already told him brainpower has become the engine of innovation. and learning networks.