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February 8, 2011ByTom GramInBlog, Competency Models, informal learning, Instructional design, management development, social media

Management Development Redux

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...

June 30, 2009ByTom GramInBlog, Knowledge work, management development, Performance Design, process Improvement

10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 3)

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...

March 17, 2009ByTom GramInBlog, e-learning 2.0, Foundations, informal learning, Instructional design, Knowledge work, Learning Design, performance consulting

Learning in Action

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...