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

CLO Magazine

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. Often, a mixture of both models can provide the most effective support for organizational talent.

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Bright Corporate Outlook for Employee Development Doesn’t Mean You Need a Bigger Budget

Mindflash

By being creative, you can increase the effectiveness of your development offerings without stretching the budget. Tap into social software apps. Need informal learning software? There are vendors selling very good software. We often think that to do more and to do better, we need to spend more money.

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

and the Social Social software phenomena, Saba has long held the point of view that these are meaningful technologies and philosophies that can and do drive real productivity. In short, social software tools & philosophies can be powerful enablers of true peer-to-peer learning and people productivity.

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Tony Karrer

Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. Kevin Oakes sounded the bell in Kevin Oakes on the Rise and Fall of the LMS as large LMS vendors began to move towards Talent Management. Mzinga is going a different direction focusing on collaboration and social media capabilities. This will increase adoption of Web 2.0

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

However, those vendors who rely solely on this argument are very likely to find themselves quickly marginalized. To stay relevant, George believes training vendors should do two things: Stop talking “learning” and start talking “capacity” and “execution” like the rest of the C-suite.

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

How to effectively architect information for your elearning course - Free as in Freedom , February 6, 2010 As Instructional Designers, its always a challenge to balance meaningful instruction with information. It’s a good reminder of the level of effort that is required to make online learning effective and valuable for our students!

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

The question you have to face is not whether or not the university needs to provide the social networks that can supplement our educational offering whille at the same time bringing us together to operate more effectively. Most students, faculty, and administraters use social networks extensively outside of school.