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

CLO Magazine

Coaching and mentoring programs are proven to increase productivity, morale and leadership. Talent management software vendors can provide some tracking capability, but do not provide in-depth coaching and mentoring program workflows optimized to help guide these programs. But managing these programs can be a challenge.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Social software facilitates conversation. Chatter, Jive, Socialcast, Yammer, Podio, and other social networking systems simplify listening in and joining purposeful conversations. We learn more from our co-workers, our bosses, our customers, our partners, and our friends than from our teachers and books.

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

We rely on colleagues and social networks to separate the signal from the noise; their advice makes our experiential learning productive. McKinsey & Company reports that implementing social business creates: Improved business performance (profit, productivity, margins, etc). Increased operational efficiency.

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

Augment their systems with components that provide opportunities for people to interact in social systems for informal learning. This is a list of roughly the top 35 or so social media vendors providing a broad core set of social media capabilities. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.

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Meet the Team Part 3: Simon Birt, VP of Global Business Development

eFront

This is for a few key reasons: the ability to deeply integrate and embed learning into workplace software such as IBM Connections, SAP Jam, Jive-n and Yammer; the need to ensure complete data integrity and security; and the need for a great user experience around learning content delivery, management and reporting.

Global 40
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Meet the Team Part 3: Simon Birt, VP of Global Business Development

eFront

This is for a few key reasons: the ability to deeply integrate and embed learning into workplace software such as IBM Connections, SAP Jam, Jive-n and Yammer; the need to ensure complete data integrity and security; and the need for a great user experience around learning content delivery, management and reporting.

Global 40