On Wed, June 20, at the Canadian Community of Corporate Educators June meeting, Rob Pearson (Director, Executive and Corporate Education Ted Rogers School of Management) and I will share our thoughts on the impact automation on jobs and workplace learning practices. Here’s a registration link some details on what we’ll be talking about. Hope you can...Continue Reading
If you’ve been in the learning business for a while you’ve likely seen a few examples where learning initiatives have simply missed the mark. They didn’t produce the anticipated return on investment. Planned performance improvement did not materialize. Learners didn’t develop the skills targeted by the program. Or if they did they certainly aren’t being...Continue Reading
Last Thursday (November 17), I presented a session on the use of deliberate practice in learning and performance at the CSTD national conference in Toronto. I promised participants that I would post the slide set on this blog. I’m a little slow getting to it but here you are. They are not fully explanatory, but...Continue Reading
About half of the formal training provided in organizations is custom developed (the other half are packaged “off-the-shelf” programs). That’s a lot of training. Every week internal learning design teams and their external partners are heads down at work developing learning programs of every description to help build skills and capability unique to their organizations. ...Continue Reading
The Learning Circuits Blog big question this month is: How do you respond to the “I want it now!” request from a demanding executive? They provide the scenario of a Type A executive with a website open on rapid instructional design prompting the “I want it now” request. (Hard to imagine i know, and if...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
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
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
In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?” ASTD Learning Circuits big question for July The Learning Circuits big question this month is an important one,...Continue Reading
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