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 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
Last week I worked on two organizational design related proposals. In both, I used the Organization-as-System (OAS) Map as an important analytical tool and it started me thinking about how useful a conceptual approach it has been over the years. Originally created by Geary Rummler as tool to envision an organization as a flow of...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
Formal learning (structured and designed classroom or e-learning programs) has been taking a beating these days. The informal learning movement, powered by constructivist concepts of learning and web 2.0 applications is well underway. Carl Sauliner almost got his virtual head lopped off in the blogosphere for suggesting that predictions of the death of classroom...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
I’ve been reading an interesting book by Mathew May, a senior advisor to the University of Toyota: The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation. The Toyota Production System (TPS) and Lean Production are legendary of course (and becoming more so in light of the self-destruction of the North American car industry) but the book...Continue Reading
I received a few e-mails on my last post on performance feedback as informal learning. The questions concerned how to implement a performance feedback system of the type I described, so I thought I’d follow up with some implementation steps and alternatives. Performance feedback is frequent, specific and objective information to individuals (or teams) regarding...Continue Reading
My recent posts on web/learning 2.0 technologies got me thinking about other technology waves that have rippled through learning and performance over the years. Since my first mainframe based e-learning project (ouch, that dates me), technologies from videodisk though PC-based, CD-ROM, client/server, and early web-based learning (web 1.0) have each had their day with associated...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.
