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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...
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The 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...
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Re-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...
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Managing 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...
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70:20:10 – 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...
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Building 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...
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Workplace 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...
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The 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,...
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Learning 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...
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What 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...
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Nothing 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...
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Learning 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...
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It’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...
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Development 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...
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Embedding 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...
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The 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...
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70:20:10 – 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...
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Autonomy 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...
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70:20:10 – 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....
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The #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...
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