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POINT-of-WORK: Is It a Destination or a Discipline?

September 8, 2019
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| Categories: Change Leadership, Digital Adoption Solutions, Digital Performance Support, Discovery & Consulting, EPSS, Insight Curation, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Point of Work Assessment, Transformational Change
Point-of-Work Dynamics

The short answer is YES! Arriving at a destination has a connotation of finality or completion, but what happens when the characteristics of the “destination” are dynamic and influenced by continuous change? Welcome to the world of Learning & Development (L&D); a world where we struggle to optimize workforce performance outcomes with static solutions and technology in a Dynamic Learning Performance Ecosystem. We (L&D) see it. Our operational stakeholders see it…and are asking for different solutions that show measurable impact to the bottom-line. The question becomes one of are we…

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POINT-of-WORK ASSESSMENT:   Workflows & Processes

May 5, 2019
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| Categories: Accelerated Productivity, Discovery & Consulting, Five Moments of Need, Intentional Design, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Point of Work Assessment

This snippet from the Point-of-Work Assessment (PWA) Workshop is unique because the attributes associated with WORKFLOWS & PROCESSES follow two parallel tracks. The first track relates to understanding relevant task-centric, role-specific work attributes that either drive or restrain productivity and performance at multiple Points-of-Work from the Knowledge Worker’s experiences and perspectives. The second track relates to restraining impacts to productivity and performance that surface at Moments of Need and within workflows at Points-of-Work that call for five additional Performance Outcomes owned and implemented by L&D. These Outcomes are similar yet…

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Treat Point-of-Work Like Point-of-Impact…Because It’s the Same Place

March 11, 2019
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| Categories: Accelerated Productivity, Discovery & Consulting, Intentional Design, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability, Workforce Capability

March 11, 2019 - by Gary G. Wise Saturday evening a thought crossed my mind and I posed it as a question on LinkedIn. As of this Monday morning, over 2,700 views indicate that maybe I’m not alone with this same thought. Here is the post from Saturday – “What if we broke tradition and L&D became Learning & Performance...L&P... where the focus was zeroed in on performance results at Point-of-Work where real results matter?” Comments and dialogue threads are all positive and encouraging enough to convince me a strategic…

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Why Adopt Point-of-Work Assessment Methodology?

December 17, 2018
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| Categories: 70:20:10, Accelerated Productivity, AGILE, Change Leadership, Continuous Learning, Data Analytics, Digital Transformation, Discovery & Consulting, Five Moments of Need, Intentional Design, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Moment of Need, Performance Insights, Performance Support, Point of Work Assessment

At conferences where I speak I always begin by asking, “How many of your organizations have a dynamic learning performance ecosystem in place today?” Rarely does a single hand go up. Some participants don’t know. Some are unsure. Some don’t want to embarrass themselves. And others simply think its BS jargon and suspect it’s a trick question. They would be correct…that it’s a trick question…not that it’s BS HR/L&D jargon. And then I share the following fact: (more…)

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POINT-of-WORK: Optimizing the Wasteland of Lost Wisdom and Insights

September 7, 2018
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, Discovery & Consulting, Insights, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability

How many times has a colleague sent you an email with an attached article they found relevant and insightful with the suggestion that you read it to gain those same insights? And how many times have you set it aside because you did not have the time to slog through the entire article to boost your own wisdom and uncover those nuggets of insight? How many of those lost opportunities to gain insight get lost in the stack of “to read later” documents? How many well-intended exchanges of “wisdom” and…

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POINT-of-WORK: Sustained Capability Enablement Is Our End-Game

August 8, 2018
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, Digital Performance Support, Discovery & Consulting, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability, Technology

As is often the case, another article, and in this case, the image attached tripped the trigger on my muse to pound out another blog post. The HBR article, “Survey: 68% of CEOs Admit They Weren’t Fully Prepared for the Job” made several references about the difficulty CEOs have in shifting the culture in their organizations. What wasn’t articulated made me wonder, “Culture related to What?” How do you decide on a culture? How do you demonstrate it? How do you attain it? Is attaining a culture the end-game, or…

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POINT-of-WORK:  Performance Is as Good as the Support…Not Just Training

July 23, 2018
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| Categories: 70:20:10, Continuous Learning, Discovery & Consulting, DPS, Learning Performance Assessment, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Point of Work Assessment

Recently, I’ve had the benefit of participating in several threads with colleagues who have an extended military background. With my momentum regarding performance support at Point-of-Work they are quick to defend the importance of training, and I don’t disagree for a second. But there is more to their story that must be pointed out. Training alone is not enough. Gaining competency is not accomplished during a training transaction – by itself, it is not enough! (more…)

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POINT-of-WORK:  Swim to the Current

July 16, 2018
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, Discovery & Consulting, DPS, Point of Work Assessment

It was 9:45AM, and I was delighted to find Bill’s Shoe Repair still residing in downtown Lawrenceburg IN., an Ohio river town in extreme southeastern Indiana. After dropping off one of my favorite slip-on loafers for repair I decided to walk down a couple of blocks and climb the stairs to the top of the levee that holds back the river. As I sat on a bench alone on the top of the levee river walk, I’d just missed a barge plow through the current and turn the corner heading…

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POINT-of-WORK – Step Away from the Hammer!

July 4, 2018
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| Categories: 70:20:10, Continuous Learning, Discovery & Consulting, DRIVER, Five Moments of Need, learning & performance ecosystem, point of work, PoWA

Have any of you responded to a training request by nailing down an awesome blended solution only to experience post-training performance outcomes being less than desired? I must confess to having been party to this kind well-intended request…and more than once. But hey…the training product was awesome! Not to spoil a good mood…but I’m sure you’ve heard some variation of the phrase, “If Training is a hammer, then every performance problem is a nail” at some point in the past. That's a dangerous paradigm. (more…)

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