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Go straight to the finish line
Two of my colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance, Jane Hart and Charles Jennings just returned from speaking at the Learning Technologies conference in London. The conference program would lead you...
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Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations
Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their...
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21st Century L&D Skills
I was recently involved in a discussion about 21st Century learning skills in one of the LinkedIn Groups. It got me thinking about a piece I’d written for TrainingZone a few months ago titled ‘What...
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Social Media + Learning = much more than Social Learning
This article was written for the E-Learning Council, and first appeared on 10 October 2011 Although we learn every day, in everything we do, whether it is in what we read, watch or listen to, or in the...
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Through the 70:20:10 Looking Glass
This is the second of three posts adapted from articles written for Inside Learning Technologies & Skills magazine. The original has been published here. The third article will be posted here a...
View ArticlePerformance Architecture
I’ve been using the tag ‘learning experience design strategy’ as a way to think about not taking the same old approaches of events über ales. The fact of the matter is that we’ve quite a lot of models...
View ArticleSharing Failure
I’ve earlier talked about the importance of failure in learning, and now it’s revealed that Apple’s leadership development program plays that up in a big way. There are risks in sharing, and rewards....
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Beyond Execution
In a recent post, Harold Jarche talks eloquently about moving into the networked era, and practices of workscaping. He points to this insightful model by Jane Hart, showing the bigger picture...
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Piecing together collaboration and cooperation
In an insightful piece, Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using...
View ArticleOrganizational Cognition
A recent post on organizational cognitive load got me thinking (I like this quote: “major learning and performance initiatives will likely fail to achieve the hoped-for outcomes if we don’t consider...
View ArticleOld -> New
My ITA Colleague Jay Cross had a hangout over the weekend and the conversation rolled around to the role of L&D in the new era (related to yesterday’s post). I’ve previously addressed how we can...
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Aligning coherency
In thinking about the coherent organization, a couple of realizations occurred to me. One is about how those layers actually are replicated at different levels. The other is how those levels need to...
View ArticleHire the ‘loud’?
In thinking about how organizations can ‘learn’, it strikes me that everyone needs to be simultaneously learning and teaching. How does that happen? I think it can be scaffolded, but it may also be...
View ArticleReshaping L&D
Jane Hart (one of my ITA colleagues) has laid out a proposal for the new services of the L&D department, and I think it resonates nicely with some thinking I’ve been having. The point is that...
View ArticleWhat does change(d) look like?
In an post this past spring, I opined that we do have to change. One obvious related question is what that change would look like. What would an effective L&D unit be doing, and what would the...
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