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
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
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
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
“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
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