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Does Your Organization Need a Learning Culture?

The Performance Improvement Blog

The learning cognoscenti know there are no shortcuts to effective learning. If sales managers want their inside sales team to conduct powerful discovery, they’ve got to teach an approach, listen to tapes, let reps self-evaluate, give feedback, listen to more tapes, give more feedback, and so on. Team projects are late and over-budget.

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Conversation on Conversations

Tony Karrer

Yet there is no doubt that discernment forms a large part of selecting efficient and effective means for knowledge transfer. There are very specific limits to using codified knowledge and that Conversation Learning is essential. While this is complex, it's very important.

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

How to work with mobile devices and keep them in sync? How to effectively filter? Of course, if you are reading this post (and it's still roughly Oct/Nov 2008), then likely you are a bit ahead of the average knowledge worker. Well consider the following: I effectively use the Google filetype operator?

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Online Coaching

Tony Karrer

In prior posts she identifies the following elements as being needed for informal learning strategy to be effective in the workplace: Motivation for learning. I most often think about informal learning in the context of work objectives. As I've said many times, for concept workers work and learning are inseparable.

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Determinism, Best Practice, and the ‘Training Solution’

Performance Learning Productivity

The key point for HR, Talent and L&D professionals is that training is only appropriate in Simple and Complicated systems where cause and effect relationships exist, are discoverable, predictable and repeatable. Best practice exists only in simple working environments. They may represent extremes. However I think Myatt is right.

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