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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. These are the things that help create an environment where change will happen. 702010forum.com #itashare'

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What Businesses Can Learn From Nonprofits

The Performance Improvement Blog

All are companies that could have benefited from following the practices of well-run nonprofits. Business tends to rely on money to solve problems and achieve goals. Alice Korngold, writing about Lublin’s book for a Fast Company blog , puts it this way: Think about how the employees of BP feel: Ashamed?

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Why companies should consider the gamification of work

Matrix

In order to solve a problem, one needs to understand what causes it. The problem is that people job-hop now more than companies were used to a few years ago. Employees can test even the wildest ideas in a gamified learning environment. Next time, he could try writing a few posts on the company blog for a change.

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How your brand affects your learning solution

Growth Engineering

When it’s put like that, you can understand that your company’s brand is a largely unappreciated feature of the environment, like a wall. Your Brand condenses the company’s values. The problem with facts is that facts are easily forgotten and their potential to make a real difference is greatly reduced.

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Performance Management Tools and Techniques to Motivate Employees

Continu

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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How to Perform a Training Needs Analysis Remotely

The Training by Nelle Blog | Corporate Training and Consulting

Getting a pulse on your environment in a remote or hybrid setting can be a challenge. Keep in Mind : After you’ve assessed your environment and conducted your gap analysis, you may discover the answer is not training. You will be working with many constraints and that’s just something you have to accept. Consider using bit.ai

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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.