The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 27, 2014

Help work teams, groups and communities share their knowledge and experiences to learn from one another. She writes: Create and support on demand, self service content (courses, tutorials, guides, resources and job aids). Scaffold and guide social learning experiences (for the training room, online and continuously in learning flows).

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Culture Develop Information Overload Organizational Learning 231

The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 21, 2012

Learners are: 1) individual employees/members/volunteers; 2) work teams; 3) the enterprise as a whole (company, nonprofit, government agency); and 4) the communities in which the organization lives and interacts. Survey of team readiness for high-performance. Table of characteristics of high-performing teams.

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Organizational Learning Tools Performance Support Community 184

Clark Quinn

APRIL 2, 2013

For one, those work teams can be at any level. There will be work teams at the level that the work gets done, but there’ll also be work teams at the management and even executive levels. One is about how those layers actually are replicated at different levels.

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Communities of Practice Work Team Community Communication 172

Jane Hart

MAY 7, 2012

keeping up to date with what is happening inside the organisation – in your work team or organisation, as well as. Learning in the workplace is not just about taking courses or other training workshops to acquire new skills and knowledge, but is also about.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 4, 2013

During my recent presentation at WOLCE on embedding learning in the flow of work, I talked about how leading L&D departments are making use of Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) to support workplace learning in all its forms – both formal learning activities as well as helping work teams share their knowledge and experiences with one [.].

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Social Networks Social Network Enterprise Social Learning 183

Jigsaw Interactive

JANUARY 11, 2022

In this first article of a three-part series, we’re going to explore what a hybrid work team is along with some of the benefits of working in or with a hybrid team. What is a Hybrid Team? A hybrid team is a work structure where some employees work from home and others work from a central location such as an office.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 14, 2012

People who can seek new information, make sense of it, and share it with their colleagues, will be an asset to any work team. However, they need access to their learning networks while at work, and this is often a challenge. Reduce these barriers, and support PKM practices, and the organization will benefit.”

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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.

Social Networks 174

Social Networks Organization Communities of Practice Social Network 174

KnowledgeAnywhere

AUGUST 23, 2021

Do you work from a SaaS-powered remote workplace? Or is your work-from-home team just beginning to explore cloud software as you make the shift towards working fully remotely? Regardless of why you need to find the ideal SaaS app for your team, it’s clear that there are hundreds of different options to choose from.

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Teams Evalution Search Services 98

Jane Hart

JULY 2, 2012

Workplace learning is not (just) about creating content (aka courses), dumping them into a LMS and then just monitoring usage – but is also about helping people to make the most of how they learn naturally and continuously as they do their jobs – in the flow of work – in project or work teams.

Enterprise 199

Enterprise Community Roles Management 199

Torrance Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Doesn’t the project team think this is just incredibly controlling?”. The project team makes the plan. The project team includes the client, subject matter expert, team members and the project lead. The beautiful thing about this is that the entire process sets up what I like to call a “work-directed work team.”.

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Jigsaw Interactive

JANUARY 12, 2022

In the first article in this series about hybrid teams, we defined what a hybrid team is and why an increasing number of businesses are implementing that model. Who Uses Hybrid Teams? Okay, not everybody uses hybrid teams , but all sorts and sizes of businesses are either experimenting with, or have employed a hybrid team model.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Employees would be tightly coupled to their work teams, and more loosely coupled to their communities of practice. Teams would be diverse and flexible, and group work would be the norm. Similarly social would play a much more central role, arguably our first recourse. This is the vision of the Coherent Organization.

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Change Performance Support Diversity Training Communities of Practice 173

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. Hal, the Human Resources Director for a large telecommunications company, had no luck finding local applicants who met the job requirements for a team working on a new project.

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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. Some used it to track bugs.

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SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Con has also worked with Learning and Development teams to establish collaborative instructional development and maintenance processes to eliminate wasteful redundancies and focus on specialized skills and knowledge.

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Infopro Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

From frontline customer service agents to dedicated customer relations teams, every employee who engages in one-on-one interactions must consistently deliver an outstanding customer experience. Achieving this level of customer care necessitates a specific set of skills within your team.

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Wisetail

MARCH 17, 2022

Retail is a busy, often chaotic work environment, especially when high turnover contributes to confusion and fractured work teams. Support your retail employees with L&D opportunities to increase confidence and improve retention.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 22, 2013

I decided to take this on, thinking about an org that was already in operation, with it’s goals, processes, and practices, and what I might do if I were to come in and get it going (with the support of the executive team to do what I thought was right).

Cognitive 180

Cognitive Performance Support Screencast Communities of Practice 180

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 20, 2009

My primary interest here are the methods and tools that allow us to work better as part of remote work teams. In other words - How do we collaborate together in remote work teams to be as effective or even more effective than a team that works down the hall? You could see where people are working.

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NuggetHead

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

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. Efficient: achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Teams and groups encouraged and supported. Emerging interest in this type of work as a way of. Teams encouraged to curate and share their own content as a way of knowledge sharing. Supporting self-organized communities of practice, and developing new community skills of practice, is a key area of work. Content curation.

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Blended Learning Social Business Performance Support 198

eLearning Industry

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It helps co-workers build stronger relationships and learn to better work together while also offering them the perfect opportunity to de-stress and unwind. A golf corporate outing can have numerous benefits for a business, its owner, and employees, especially in the case of remote workers.

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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. Now everything you need to meet with your teams and plan, decide, assign and track is all in one place.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

How are they applying the information in teams and in collaborative settings? They will have to formulate answers and be prepared to defend their conclusions if other teams challenge the result. One team at time presents their question to one other random team. That team has 5 seconds to answer the stated question.

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Activities Brain Google Docs Lesson 179

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

The most popular technologies used are instant messaging (74%), wikis and team workspaces (67%), and blogs (51%). 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.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 24, 2016

Coordinating content and campaigns, but also small events for team discussion and innovation as well as large-scale cross-organisational learning and networking events. Is your L&D team moving toward coordination, facilitation and advisorial roles? Co-ordinating roles . Facilitating roles.

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Performance Learning Productivity

MAY 1, 2014

When other changes are implemented a change in name for the training department and in titles for the team is probably essential. There are some tremendous ones that I am sure many in the profession could share. That’s not to say that changing names should be avoided. But it needs to be part of a wider change process.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 17, 2008

Important to teach students collaborative skills to prepare for work. Teams are goal-directed. Wikis make it very clear who did what–always a problem with group work for grading. Collaboration Tools. Kaltura–collaborative video editing. Google Docs. Create a sharing community.

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Jane Hart

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Next public online workshop: 9 November – 4 December 2015 In the workplace, people learn continuously as a result of working in their teams.

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Consulting Collaboration Work Team Social 100

Jane Hart

APRIL 19, 2015

Next public online workshop runs: 4 – 29 May In the workplace, people learn continuously as a result of working in their teams. This is known as social […].

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Social Collaboration Online Work Team 100

Clark Quinn

MAY 20, 2015

Working backwards [], we should decide what portion should be handled by the computer, and what by the person (or team), and then design the resources and then training the humans to use the resources in context to achieve the goals. Just like a tire, interaction requires friction.

Cognitive 100

Cognitive Player Communities of Practice Organizational Learning 100

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 17, 2015

There are three layers: work teams composed of members from different communities of practice, that are connected outward to broader social networks. At the work team level, you want people to be able to communicate with one another effectively, and collaborate to find answers.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Communities of Practice Community Social Network 100

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. They are the ones who form teams. And they’ll work together in those teams, for short term needs or on an ongoing basis.

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Marcia Conner

DECEMBER 20, 2008

I just read a fascinating article in the magazine Step about design teams. While reading it I kept thinking about how the way design teams are assembled and lead should be considered for most all work teams in business today. Agile, frequently changing, without much hierarchy, purpose-driven. Perhaps this also.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 29, 2014

The impact of technology, globalization, ubiquitous connectivity, remote work and distributed work teams, and economy of individuals to name a few drivers have changed the face of workplace learning and performance dramatically. Refer to Ross Dawson’s The Future of Work for a detailed overview.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 29, 2015

In thinking a bit about the Future of Work, one of the issues is where to start. If we take the implications of the Coherent Organization to heart, we realize that the components include the work teams, the communities of practice (increasingly I think of it as a community of improvement ), and the broader network.

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