Through her Action Mapping process Cathy Moore has demystified, and put a friendly face on an analysis process that produces lean and effective learning programs with an emphasis on practice and application. The four step analysis process of identifying business goals (1), desired actions/behaviours (2) and practice activities (3) before identifying content (4) is much...Continue Reading
I came across this interesting resource recently–The 30 second MBA. It’s a venture of Fast Company Magazine. Leaders and entrepreneurs from a variety of industries are asked to describe their approach to various leadership problems and topics in 30 seconds or less (ticking clock and all). The site describes their mission like this: The great...Continue Reading
In my last post I mentioned that I prefer the Success Case Method for evaluating learning (and other) interventions to the Kirkpatrick approach. A few readers contacted me asking for information on the method and why I prefer it. Here’s a bit of both. About the Success Case Method The method was developed by Robert...Continue Reading
In a recent article in CLO magazine Dan Pontefract questioned the value of traditional training evaluation and the Kirkpatrick approach in particular (article re-posted here). The article raised the ire of the Kirkpatrick organization and Dan responded in a follow-up post . Others had observations on the post (see Don Clark and Harold Jarche.) I’ve...Continue Reading
My last few posts have been about management and leadership development. In this post, I thought I would bring some of those ideas together in the form of a process or heuristic for a management development system built around defined business challenges, informal learning approaches with less reliance (or no reliance at all!) on classroom...Continue Reading
For years we have dragged managers into training programs then do it again in a year or two to “renew” their skills or expose them to the “next thing” sparked by the newest management trend. But take the time to ask managers how they prefer to hone their skills, they invariably offer informal approaches like...Continue Reading
At the session I described in my last post, table groups did a short brainstorming session on how web 2.0 tools could be used in a Management Community of Practice to facilitate learning. Each table recorded their ideas and left them for me. I promised the group I would post them here. So here...Continue Reading
Last week I presented a session titled Leadership Development in a Learning 2.0 World at the CSTD 2010 National Symposium. Here is the description of the session from the conference program: Leadership Development in a Learning 2.0 World Developing effective leaders and managers is an increasingly important task for the learning function. Leadership development has...Continue Reading
Henry Mintzberg sees management as a balancing act between science, art and craft. His argument is that effective management requires all three and an overemphasis on any one results in dysfunction. This offers some insight for Instructional Design. The debate about ADDIE (see my own view here) seem to revolve around the prescriptive, process based...Continue Reading
e-Learning: What’s hot, what’s not I received a request from a colleague last week who is helping a company put together a learning strategy, part of which will focus on e-learning. Her question was this: what’s hot and what’s not in e-learning these days ? I gave it a bit of thought and came up...Continue Reading
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