Which training approach is best?

March 31, 2010

IT DEPENDS ON THE LEARNING NEED In my most recent report, I discuss the occasional differences of opinion on how to conduct training. Differences of opinion are a very good thing, normally. It is when they become dogma that we have a problem. Then, instead of allowing healthy intellectual tensions from different viewpoints drive us [...]

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Constructive Learning: The Path to Business Excellence

March 24, 2010

LET ME BE THE BEST I CAN BE If knowing that something is good for us should entice us to learn it, or learn more about it, then why don’t all employees get on board and acquire the skills to make the business successful?  There are the usual red herrings—arguments that divert attention from the [...]

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Cognitive Learning: The ‘Obvious’ Path to Skills and Business Growth

March 19, 2010

IT HAS VALUE, IT MUST BE GOOD That statement above is the simple implication that lies at the heart of what we describe as cognitive learning.  Everyone has a somewhat different perspective but we generally converge on some common themes.  When those themes are about skills, we say those are good skills.  When they are [...]

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The Business Hazards of Behavioral Learning

February 24, 2010

WHAT LESSONS IN PERFORMANCE ARE BEING TAUGHT ALL AROUND YOU? Just as Hypertension can lurk unseen, beneath the surface, and will undermine a person’s health by slowly weakening the organs, so too organizations can suffer from habits and practices that compromise organizational health. That damage can sometimes be extremely hard to undo when it establishes [...]

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What Does The Environment Tell Us About Learning?

February 22, 2010

LOOK, LISTEN AND LEARN One of my memorable learning encounters, in a previous phase of my career as a telecommunications Systems (Sales) Engineer, was a demonstration by an equipment vendor of their new turret systems. I worked with account executives in two-person teams and we served financial institutions and departments that conducted brokerage activities. Turret [...]

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The More things Change, The More Things Change.

February 8, 2010

GEEKINESS, WOMEN, POWER, AND CHANGE, ALL MIXED IN Here is an interesting excerpt from a recent computing event keynote speech. In this segment of the speech, reported by Barr (2010), the speaker was addressing the interconnectedness of data. “People at Google have been generating real-time information about the spread of flu. They have used search [...]

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What’s Old is New Again

February 1, 2010

T+D MAGAZINE (01/2010)  LOOKS AT THE STATE OF ELEARNING The ‘learning’ hype of the late 90s that was fueled by the dot com craze subsided when the money dried up.  ELearning companies too went through the catharsis of change and consolidation.  Many people who had talked down the value of technology-based learning, partly as a [...]

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