This year the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) and the International Federation of Training and Development Organisations (IFTDO) are combining for a single conference event in Toronto that I’m looking forward to, both as a participant and presenter. Here are some highlights and the dates for my own presentations. I hope some of...Continue Reading
You’ll notice I’ve stripped my web site down to only the blog entries this week. This is because I’ve decided to take a full time position and close out Gram Consulting as a business. I have enjoyed my work over the last few years with clients and associates, so the decision was not an easy...Continue Reading
In an earlier post (For Web 2.0 What’s in the Workflow is What Gets Used), I refered to some ongoing research McKinsey&Company is doing in web 2.0 adoption in the workplace– how and where it is being used and the impact it is having on business. The research is based an an annual survey of...Continue Reading
Here’s an article written in 1944 by Stephan M. Cory (University of Chicago January 1944 edition of Childhood Education). It is a classic satire written in the first person of a seventh grade student discussing his experiences in elementary school. I think it’s a great example of the contrast of learning in rigid formal environments...Continue Reading
I’m at risk of flogging a very dead horse here, but some recent posts from Ellen Wagner (What is it about ADDIE that makes people so cranky?) and Donald Clark (The evolving dynamics of ISD) got me thinking about instructional design process and ADDIE in particular (please don’t run away!). Much of my career has been...Continue Reading
Here’s a nice example I stumbled on this week that illustrates the transition that training needs to make. A few years ago the UPS driver training unit had a mini-revolt on its hands from younger drivers who were unhappy with the long traditional classroom-based training program required for new drivers. The program was experiencing increasingly...Continue Reading
I’m back from some vacation where I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. Even if you haven’t read Outliers yet you probably know that it sets out to dispel myths that intelligence or innate ability are the primary predictors of success. Instead, Gladwell summarizes research and provides examples to show that it is hours and hours of...Continue Reading
This is the fifth and final post in the 10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work series. I appreciate the comments and e-mails in response to previous posts. This last post focuses on the job (or role). First, how jobs can be designed to optimize natural learning (strategy #9) and second, how elements of the...Continue Reading
Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge Are you ready for Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge (B.O.O.K)? Apparently “thousands of content creators have committed to the platform and investors are reported flocking to the medium” I learned about the new device through this B.O.O.K MARK while browsing a local supplier of B.O.O.K on the weekend.Continue Reading
This is the fourth post in the 10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work series. Organizational Learning Practices (Strategy #8) offers opportunities to build learning into day to day work. The methods can help individuals, teams and entire organizations surface and understand patterns of behaviour that lead to sub par performance and to adopt...Continue Reading
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