The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog
Dashe & Thomson
FEBRUARY 9, 2011
Networking comes naturally for some people, but not-so-much for others. So big deal, you say. Why is networking so important anyway?
Steps to Developing a Learning Culture
The Performance Improvement Blog
AUGUST 27, 2014
I’m reluctant to make specific suggestions at the risk of over-simplifying the work that needs to be done. On the other hand, some experts have offered ideas about actions that can be taken relatively quickly to enhance organizational learning. For example, Jane Hart has a five-point plan for increasing social learning.
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Work, culture and COVID-19
CLO Magazine
AUGUST 25, 2020
COVID-19 has forced unique challenges on American managers tasked with leading multicultural work teams: Its impact on how we do work, where we do work and how we define work gets deeper every week. After all, these teams worked together virtually long before COVID came along. centric workforce.
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Detailing the Coherent Organization
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
I had, as Harold’s original model provided the basis for, separate groups for Work Teams, Communities of Practice, and Social Networks. As a start, I wanted to go back and look at these elements and see if I could be more systematic about it. Within each were separate elements.
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20 ways to prepare yourself for modern workplace learning
Jane Hart
APRIL 20, 2016
You subscribe to a number of blog and website feeds to keep up to date with new ideas, thinking and resources in the field. L&D can help individuals to locate useful sources to keep up to date in their industry and profession and/or provide a trusted feed of new ideas and resources. ARE PART OF A SOCIAL WORK TEAM.
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A bit more detail
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 20, 2016
In the Coherent Organization model that we (the ITA ) came up with, it talks about how work teams are fed by and feed up to communities as they too feed up to and are fed from social networks. And while this is all good, it may not be completely clear. So I tried to take a pass at representing it another way.
Learning Activities that Matter
Learning Rebels
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
They will have to formulate answers and be prepared to defend their conclusions if other teams challenge the result. “Make Your Case” In short: This activity allows for participants to debate course materials, concepts and ideas. In short: Have participants conduct group research on lessons or key ideas.
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How to Use Group-Based Online Courses to Build Organisational Capability
Acorn Labs
OCTOBER 27, 2022
While most cohorts are designed to mirror the size of real working teams, they shouldn’t be homogenous in design. This can lead to a poor learning culture; the idea that certain development pathways are competitive may turn employees off exploring individual opportunities.
How to Use Group-Based Online Courses to Build Organisational Capability
Acorn Labs
OCTOBER 26, 2022
While most cohorts are designed to mirror the size of real working teams, they shouldn’t be homogenous in design. This can lead to a poor learning culture; the idea that certain development pathways are competitive may turn employees off exploring individual opportunities.
Curated Insights: The Continued Evolution of Social Learning
Axonify
AUGUST 17, 2016
Because we had new, high-tech ways to share, people also assumed “social learning” was a new idea. Not only must we enable employees to share on their own terms, but we must reinforce the importance of storytelling as a way to collaborate on new thoughts and unfinished ideas. That about sums it up.
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Curated Insights: The Continued Evolution of Social Learning
Axonify
AUGUST 17, 2016
Because we had new, high-tech ways to share, people also assumed “social learning” was a new idea. Not only must we enable employees to share on their own terms, but we must reinforce the importance of storytelling as a way to collaborate on new thoughts and unfinished ideas. That about sums it up.
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Maximize Your Potential as an Influential Leader
KnowledgeCity
OCTOBER 30, 2019
Being an influential leader is about getting results out of your work team and being able to effectively stimulate change when needed. An emotionally mature leader is not volatile or antisocial, but rather works with people with an element of patience and understanding. What it Means to Be an Influential Leader. Micromanaging.
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Two years
Technology Enhanced Learning Blog
MARCH 14, 2022
It was scary, and something no one had any idea how it would affect us. Friends and family, co-workers, neighbours, everyone had to get used to isolation, anxiety, fear, and so many more emotions you can only describe it for yourself. We all had different perspectives of what this would mean.
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Storyboard Workbook for Elearning: Documenting the Workflow
NuggetHead
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
I can’t answer that for you other than being proficient is a matter of time and practice while exploring, testing and learning new ideas. Being efficient also takes time and experience to learn all those little nuances and processes in your organization, your work team, your own workflow, and evaluating your own level of skill.
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10 Core Competencies Examples
Ed App
APRIL 28, 2022
By generating ideas for improvement, taking advantage of opportunities, and suggesting innovations, individuals and teams can make impactful changes to organizations. When it comes to thinking outside the box or developing new strategies, you’re going to need some creative thinkers on your team.
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Free learning & development webinars for February 2024
Limestone Learning
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
This month’s array of free webinars can spark your creativity, build your business savvy or just give you an hour to relax and absorb some new ideas. You’ll learn to employ prompts for idea generation, course outlining and drafting learning materials, significantly cutting down on development time. Thursday, February 1, 2024, 10 a.m.–11
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Why your Enterprise Social Network is your most valuable social learning platform
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
It means that an individual’s personal activity stream will consist of all their subscribed activity streams – from all their formal learning initiatives as well as from their work teams and communities too. In other words, GSLEs provide just enough structure, without constraining personal and social learning.
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Discussion with Lucid Meetings
Kapp Notes
MARCH 22, 2012
We offer a solution for working teams to help improve the quality and effectiveness of their meetings. Now everything you need to meet with your teams and plan, decide, assign and track is all in one place. 2) How did you develop the idea for the product? 1) So tell me about Lucid Meetings, what does it do?
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The Pros and Cons of Having your Employees Continue to Work from Home
KnowledgeCity
AUGUST 17, 2020
Additionally, 41 percent of global businesses surveyed say they are currently offering some amount of remote working, while 60 percent provide flexible working opportunities. Upwork, an online platform for freelance workers, predicts that 73 percent of all work teams will have remote employees by the year 2028.
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Your Employees Want You to Show Your Appreciation for Them
KnowledgeCity
OCTOBER 16, 2019
This type of thankfulness is important both in your personal life, and in your work life. For this reason, you should be sure to include your employees and work team on this year’s Thanksgiving gratitude list, as they contribute immeasurably to the success of your company. Why it is Important to Keep Your Employees Happy.
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Why developing an agile mindset is crucial for business success
Matrix
JULY 9, 2020
This the honest belief that there are always areas that need improvement and anyone can freely come up with ideas for change. Even if not all ideas are deemed feasible, it’s important that they keep pitching them, as one never knows when the winning one will pop up.
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Using SharePoint
Tony Karrer
DECEMBER 16, 2008
The reality is that what we did on the Work Literacy course or what I did for my Collaborative Learning Course could easily be supported by the various types of web parts within SharePoint. But in discussions there were often distinctions based on what the work team or CoP expected. A lot of what eLearning 2.0
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Tips for Leaders of Virtual Teams
Coreaxis
JUNE 4, 2018
One illustration of that efficiency in action is the use of virtual work teams. Here are just a few examples of the benefits of virtual teams. Introduce your team members to one another. Encourage them to brainstorm ideas and methods. Encourage Collaboration. Remote does not mean isolated!
Social Software Adoption
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 10, 2009
Tools Adoption Ideas Webinar Software - Adoption Advice Enterprise 2.0 - What's the PU? Once a work team agrees that will be how they collaborate on a given piece of content, it becomes very inefficient for an individual within the team to not adopt the same technology. and eLearning 2.0
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How to revamp your sexual harassment training for the hybrid workplace
TalentLMS
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Training looks a little different for hybrid work teams. A little exploration will give you a good idea of what you should include in your upgraded training. Getting an off-the-shelf training course on sexual harassment at work is a good first step. Adjust the delivery methods. Do tailor content to your workplace.
Subject Matter Experts: The Key to Knowledge Transfer
gomo learning
AUGUST 6, 2019
While some experts have advanced degrees, others may have acquired their knowledge through years of work and hands-on experience. Another might have a knack for distilling complicated ideas or functions so they’re easier for others to understand. Great Resources, Great Learning Content.
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Donald Clark - Dumbness of Crowds - Hmmmm
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 26, 2007
I generally agree with what Donald has to say, but on this post, I think he's right about collaboration vs. independent work, but draws a bad conclusion: Donald Clark Plan B: Dumbness of Crowds. activities are more independent actions of individuals than true collaborative work (team work) on a work product.
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Free learning & development webinars for October 2021
Limestone Learning
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Join TED’s Director of Speaker Coaching, Briar Goldberg, in conversation with Sara Venjohn, from the TED@Work team, as they examine what it means to live by your values. Learn why clear and human leadership communication is the crucial starting point and the role learning teams can play in what happens next.
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136 5 Tips for Setting Up an Employee Training and Development Plan
eFront
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
New ideas, products, techniques and strategies are constantly appearing. There’s nothing like new ideas to freshen up your approach to your tasks. A good training program will address the individual employee’s needs in relation to their work , helping them to feel more confident in the importance and value of what they produce.
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Subject Matter Experts: The Key to Knowledge Transfer
Instilled
JULY 24, 2019
While some experts have advanced degrees, others may have acquired their knowledge through years of work and hands-on experience. Another might have a knack for distilling complicated ideas or functions so they’re easier for others to understand. Great Resources, Great Learning Content.
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?ot just cat videos: 5 Social Learning Myths
TalentLMS
JUNE 1, 2016
At its most basic, it is the idea that people learn through observing and interacting with others in a social context. Again, where do people get those ideas? Because they solve the very real problems of communication, collaboration and knowledge exchange within today’s dynamic work teams. Conclusion.
The science of teamwork and true leadership
Matrix
AUGUST 17, 2017
Children weren’t keen on following those who jumped straight in with new ideas. Oxytocin, a hormone that activates itself when young mothers nurse in order to help them connect with the infant, has also been documented to occur in couples and other well established groups – this includes work teams.
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Building a Performance Ecosystem
CLO Magazine
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Social knowledge management consultant Harold Jarche suggests there are multiple layers, from collaborating in work teams, to collective learning in communities of practice, to cooperative learning with peers and friends in our networks (Figure 1). Learning leaders should facilitate this learning to optimize outcomes.
Global digital tribe
Learning with e's
MAY 29, 2013
We now regularly find ourselves gathered around digital totems, where we tell our stories, give our warnings, share our ideas. The most familiar social space, particularly for distributed work teams, is the social network. We have, it seems come full circle, and ''community'' has once again been redefined.
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CLO Magazine
JULY 28, 2011
While we still have companies and corporations such as the two mentioned above, many are becoming virtualized in this digital age, with online work teams handing off assignments to each other around the world. He had the idea to apply the same concept to digital media to legalize piracy.
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Abhijit Bhaduri: An Unconventional Leader
CLO Magazine
JULY 22, 2013
“I was trying to look at concepts that were there, that I had read about, and take those concepts and create my own version of each of these ideas — take the principle and see if it held up in what we were trying to do,” he said. So instead of giving them a lecture on learning agility, they actually practice some of this.
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54 Thinking, Instructional Design, PWLE, Manufacturing, & Google
Big Dog, Little Dog
JUNE 4, 2007
The idea that content on the web is "free" is mistaken: the hidden cost may be the demise of old media and entire art forms on which the free content depends. Thinking is so over - Times Online. Rhythm - Basic Principles of Design - About.com. Rhythm in design is also called repetition.
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The Learning Circuits
SEPTEMBER 21, 2006
This would include work teams, affinity groups, professional practice networks, expertise databases, collaboration tools, techniques to enhance interpersonal communication. This also includes the idea of walking the talk. Training should be clearly aligned with enterprise and personal expectations.
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Training and Development
WalkMe Training Station
APRIL 26, 2017
However, it’s easy to lose sight of what you have, what works effectively and how to improve on that, where the employee strengths are and how they could be developed further. This will give you a general idea of how well employee training has affected your organization’s overall profitability.
Why Content Curation Should be in Your Skillset
Jay Cross
APRIL 29, 2015
IDEA: Entering new markets? Recruit someone to curate news to share with everyone on the team. IDEA: Entire team researching a subject? IDEA: New person joining the team? We used to be inthralled with the idea that everyone now had a personal printing press. That’s all there is to it. Just Do It.
Can This Marriage Be Saved?
CLO Magazine
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Because the same scheme can predict the likelihood a work team will thrive or languish. The CLO’s role is to ensure that individuals, teams and their entire organization are productive. Most real work and learning these days takes place in close-knit teams. Most marriages rate a 5.
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You are here!
Technology Enhanced Learning Blog
MARCH 19, 2020
Just as important as the self and team aspects of a prolonged remote working, is the social and informal side of how we all work together. A few idea on keeping the team spirit alive. Somehow you need to keep the office chatter and small talk going, without it impeding the working day. Small talk.
Determinism, Best Practice, and the ‘Training Solution’
Performance Learning Productivity
JANUARY 3, 2013
Determinism is the philosophical idea that every event, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable result of preceding actions and that, given certain conditions, there is only one outcome. Nothing else can happen.
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