Internet Time Alliance Predictions for 2013
The Principals of the Internet Time Alliance decided to take a collective look ahead to the new year, and share our predictions. You’ll see overlap but also unique perspectives: Charles JenningsAn...
View ArticleThe Need to Adapt to the Speed of Change or Die: lessons for L&D from the...
Yesterday another great British institution slid into the history books. HMV opened its first retail shop in Oxford Street, London in 1921 with great brouhaha. Composer Edward Elgar took part in the...
View ArticleRe-thinking Workplace Learning: extracting rather than adding
A decade ago the Corporate Executive Board published a report detailing the findings of a study into the role managers can play in employee development. By almost any standards the sample in this study...
View ArticleManaging Learning?
Donald Taylor recently published an article titled ‘What does ‘LMS’ mean today?’. In it Donald posited something I’ve been advocating for years. It is this. Learning can only be managed by the...
View Article70:20:10 – A Framework for High Performance Development Practices
Over the past few years the 70:20:10 model for development has captured the imagination of organisations across the world. Some organisations apply 70:20:10 principles to targeted and specific...
View ArticleBuilding a Culture of Continuous Learning
Most people get it. Classes, courses and curricula – structured learning events – don’t provide all the tools in the toolkit. They’re bit-players in a much larger world of organisational learning and...
View ArticleWorkplace Learning: Adding, Embedding & Extracting
High performing individuals, teams and organisations focus on exploiting development opportunities in the workplace because that’s where most of the learning happens. Extending learning into the...
View ArticleThe Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light,...
View ArticleLearning is Behaviour Change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?
A fascinating article recently published on the Fast Company blog should be required reading for all learning and talent professionals as well as for leaders and managers. Alan Deutschman, the author...
View ArticleWhat Does the Training Department Do When Training Doesn’t Work?
The global training industry is large and in growth again post-2008. Data provided by the US membership organisation Training Industry suggests annual growth around 6% per year since 2009. Training...
View ArticleNothing Has Changed. Everything Has Changed.
A Revolution or a Slow Demise? I’ve recently read Clark Quinn’s excellent new ‘Revolutionize Learning & Development’ book. Clark always provides a thoughtful and enlightening perspective. There...
View ArticleLearning in the Collaboration Age
We may not have noticed it at the time, but the world of learning changed in 1990. In November of that year British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee together with his Belgian colleague Robert...
View ArticleIt’s Only 65% !
The results of yet another 70:20:10 survey were published recently. The researchers (possibly on work experience) declared that “50:26:24 is the average learning mix in most companies right now”. The...
View ArticleDevelopment Mindsets and 70:20:10
Professor Carol Dweck is a psychologist at Stanford University and the prime force behind mindset theory. Dweck’s research has led her to the conclusion that each individual will place themselves on a...
View ArticleEmbedding Learning in Work: The Benefits and Challenges
(a version of this article was originally written as background for an #OzLearn chat held on Twitter, 11th November 2014) The Power of Embedded Learning A common finding that has emerged from study...
View ArticleThe Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor
“The only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor. He takes new measurements every time he sees me. All the rest go on with their old measurements.” —George Bernard Shaw I’ve always enjoyed George...
View Article70:20:10 – Above All Else It’s a Change Agent
“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw Tom Spiglanin is a senior engineering specialist at the Aerospace...
View ArticleAutonomy and Value in Social and Workplace Learning
My colleague Jane Hart recently shared the diagram below on her blog. It shows the relationship between relative value and relative autonomy as they relate to different approaches for learning in the...
View Article70:20:10 – Beyond the Blend
The term ‘blended learning’ first appeared in the late-1990s when web-based learning solutions started to become more widely used and were integrated on one way or another with face-to-face methods....
View ArticleThe #Blimage Challenge
For a bit of fun this afternoon my colleague Jane Hart set a few of us a #Blimage challenge. I hadn’t come across this particular game before but having subjected myself to an iced water dunking along...
View Article2015 Top Tools for Learning
Jane Hart’s 9th Annual ‘Top Tools for Learning’ Survey closes on Friday 19th September 2015 and will be published the following Monday. If you haven’t already voted, please take a visit here and do so...
View Article70:20:10 Primer
I have often been asked to explain the fundamentals of 70:20:10 as a strategic framework quickly and simply. I wrote the one-page ‘primer’ below to serve that immediate purpose. Please feel free to use...
View ArticleJAY CROSS – Pushing the Envelope to the End
“It all boils down to learning, but not the sort of learning you experienced at school. No, this is learning as a life skill. You’re learning all the time, taking in new information and making...
View ArticleStart with the 70. Plan for the 100.
This article draws on ideas and supporting material from a new book published for the first time in English last week. 702010 towards 100% performanceby Jos Arets, Charles Jennings & Vivian...
View ArticleFrom Courses to Campaigns : using the 70:20:10 approach
One of the major strategic objectives for many HR and L&D departments in 2016 and beyond will be to extend their focus and services beyond courses and out into the workplace. There are many reasons...
View ArticleThe Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?
The first chapter of ‘70:20:10 towards 100% performance’ (the recent book by Arets, Jennings & Heijnen) is titled ‘the training bubble’. It takes a quick look at the history, the lure, and some...
View ArticleLanguage Learning – an Exemplar of the 70:20:10 Approach?
Humans are an incredibly inquisitive and extremely social species. The characteristics that helped us reach our dominant position on planet earth are intimately linked with our search for...
View ArticleThe Power of Reflection in an Ever-Changing World
(I wrote the original article this is based on for Training Industry Quarterly in Winter, 2012 but feel it still speaks to a key issue for building high performance that has barely been touched by many...
View Article70-20-10: Origin, Research, Purpose
This is a re-post of an article by Cal Wick of Fort Hill. The original is on the 70-20 Blog site. There are a few observations from me at the bottom. Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and...
View ArticleBeing Bold and Imagining the Different
Last Thursday 25th August marked the centenary of the US National Parks Service. The natural beauty of these places across the North American continent is unquestionable. They are amongst some of the...
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