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

CLO Magazine

Mentoring and coaching strategies translate to better employee engagement and retention. But it pays to know the key differences between coaching and mentoring to implement an effective program. There is a difference between coaching and mentoring. Desired outcomes: What should program results be?

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Social Media vs. Social Learning

Integrated Learnings

Let’s say you have one group of learners in one region going through a four-week new hire program, but you also have another group going through the same four-week program in another region at the same time. 2-- Share “real world” learnings with each other after the training is complete. 3-- Create an Alumni group.

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Flexing Your Tools to Create Maximum-Impact Online Training

Mindflash

When designing and delivering online training programs, we often focus on the tools and the content independently. Content design is often tackled separately from administration and program management. The mentor doesn’t need to be physically co-located with the learner to offer advice and expertise. Supporting Performance.

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7 Strategies to Facilitate “Working Out Loud”

Learnnovators

S/he can be a coach and mentor helping people to get started with working out loud , keep the community space free of trolls, and connect individuals to each other and to relevant content/discussions/groups. In the online world, this ease can be created by a community space or platform that is easy to access, like Twitter or Yammer.

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Can Centralized and Decentralized Online Training Co-Exist?

Mindflash

Decentralizing the learning function can encourage self-directed learning, mentoring, social and informal collaboration, learning tailored to specific groups and locales, and on-the-job performance support. Provide spaces for mentoring relationships to develop, either formally (i.e., new hire mentorship programs) or informally (i.e.,

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Can Centralized and Decentralized Online Training Co-Exist?

Mindflash

Decentralizing the learning function can encourage self-directed learning, mentoring , social and informal collaboration, learning tailored to specific groups and locales , and on-the-job performance support. Provide spaces for mentoring relationships to develop, either formally (i.e., All of which are very important, too.).

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Front-running companies are installing social networks such as Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, SharePoint, Ideo and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. And they learn about twice as much from those conversations with others in classrooms and formal learning programs.