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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. In other words, to alter response, performance or whatever aspect of human behaviour we are focused on, and for that alteration to be for the better.

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What Businesses Can Learn From Nonprofits

The Performance Improvement Blog

But after watching giant for-profit companies pull out the begging bowl, I know there are also plenty of lessons my sector can offer. 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.

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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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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. Many of us don’t think of this as learning, because it doesn’t match the kinds of formal learning we recognize from the classroom—lectures, seminars, and organized lessons. Blog about it.