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Learning is Behaviour Change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?

Performance Learning Productivity

A fascinating article recently published on the Fast Company blog should be required reading for all learning and talent professionals as well as for leaders and managers. He is sometimes seen at conferences and seminars with a human brain in a jar and a rich collection of shocking, but memorable, stories.

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How to Build an Online Learning Sponsorship Program

WBT Systems

They’re the thought leaders who share their wisdom and advice on their company blog, host webinars, speak at conferences, or participate in online communities. Be an online host for a livestreaming conference or other in-person educational event. But, think about the learner first. Moderate virtual roundtables.

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Performance Management Tools and Techniques to Motivate Employees

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For example, this could be great customer service by a sales team member, valuable sharable content on the company blog by a marketing team member or sales goals exceeded by the sales department. If you don’t check in with your employees periodically, this leads to problems. Is there a lack of training? Ask open-ended questions.

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Emerging Technologies for Online Learning 2015 Presenter Profile – Dr. Ulanda Forbess

TechSmith Camtasia

Because one of my former students came back to me after graduation asking for help on how to build a company blog. I still teach how to write instructions, emails, proposals, and memos, but now, I also have students create a blog and a web page because more and more companies are asking this of their employees.

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70-20-10 : No longer applicable to online learning – and here’s why

eLearning 24-7

I mention the conferences because invariably I will information from either a fellow speaker’s mouth, or a vendor or an attendee, that frankly is inaccurate on some level, when it comes to e-learning, WBT and lately LRS. Ask yourself, how many training sessions did you attend where the 70 component actually happened.

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6 Ways to Encourage Informal Learning in the Workplace

LearnDash

Informal learning refers to the kind of learning most of us engage in whenever we tackle a problem at work or indulge our curiosity. Blog about it. We’ve written before about some of the positive side effects of running a blog. Not everyone follows the same policy, but it’s certainly worth the experiment.