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
This post continues the Ten Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work series. Last post I discussed communities of practice and social media, two strategies focused on collaboration and networks where learning and knowledge are a natural byproduct. This post shifts focus to how structured problem solving and Action Learning approaches can intimately wed learning...Continue Reading
In my last post I listed ten strategies for integrating learning with work. They are a combination of concepts and methods that build knowledge and bring learning into day to day activities and workflow. In this post I describe strategies 4 and 5. Both can improve informal learning without pulling people way from the job for...Continue Reading
The goal of learning in the workplace is performance–individual and organizational. If we’ve learned nothing else in recent years, we’ve learned that learning is most effective when it is integrated with real work. What we need are practical strategies that we can to use to make it happen. In a series of following posts I’ll...Continue Reading
In a blog post a while back I mentioned it might be nice to see the training function morph into something more akin to an organizational effectiveness unit in the next ten years. So I enjoyed a recent post (The Rise of the Chief Performance Officer) by knowledge management leader Tom Davenport where he suggests...Continue Reading
“Ba” is a Japanese concept meaning a shared space that serves as a foundation for the creation of individual and collective knowledge. Nonaka and Takeuchi built on the concept in their influential book, The Knowledge Creating Company a few years back. The SECI Cycle of Knowledge Creation In that book they advanced a “dynamic theory...Continue Reading
These early days of implementing web 2.0 for learning (or working, or both) is turning out to be a hit and miss affair. While social media has been embraced in the public sphere, attempts to implement in organizations have been met with mixed success. A recent survey by Mckinsey and Company showed as many survey...Continue Reading
In preparation for a presentation I’m doing on how the learning function can introduce more informal learning services to their repertoire, I’ve been exploring methods that build on the Natural Learning cycle that I mentioned in this post. Action Learning is one such method. It is essentially the process of reflective learning while solving real...Continue Reading
I came across another interesting web 2.0 app recently. It’s called Kindling and it allows users to submit an idea, discuss it and then vote on it. From the companies website… “Kindling makes it easy for your group to submit, discuss and vote on ideas. Good ideas naturally rise to the top helping your business...Continue Reading
Nothing like an economic crisis to get us thinking about our future. The Learning Circuits Blog big question for March is “What will Workplace Learning look like in ten years?” Harold Jarche and Jay Cross have questioned the value of the training department in their article “The Future of the Training Department”. Predicting the future...Continue Reading
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Here are some popular posts from Tom’s former blog, Performance X Design. Some older posts contain inactive links and unedited formatting while they wait impatiently for him to update them.
