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PERFORMANCE SUPPORT:  Running the Entire Race

June 1, 2018
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, DPS, EPSS, Learning Performance Ecosystem, LMS, Performance analytics, point of work

Many years and as many pounds ago I remember tensing in my crouch anticipating the starter’s gun, so I could explode out of the blocks and sprint for 100 meters as part of the 400-meter relay team. I’d always had an amazing start but had a bad habit of not finishing as strong as I started. I can still hear coach McVey yelling at me, “Wise, why don’t you try running the whole leg of the race!” This little memory is very appropriately aligned in my profession these years later…

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Boxed In By LearningTechnology

August 11, 2017
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, Data Analytics, EPSS, LMS, Micro-Learning, MOOCs, Performance analytics, Performer Support, Sustained Capability, Technology

[caption id="attachment_3151" align="aligncenter" width="533"] Boxed in By Technology?[/caption] Have you ever noticed how entrenched technology…and even some methodology…are accepted as the rule or the standard and innovation around those rules and standards get kind of…locked down? Even so, being in the “locked box” of technology, some innovation does indeed take place, but often it never exceeds the limitations of the box in which it’s locked down. The LMS comes to mind as one such technology, and learning design surfaces as one such methodology. (more…)

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The Consistency of Disruptive Innovation

November 1, 2016
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| Categories: AGILE, Change Leadership, Continuous Learning, Data Analytics, Discovery & Consulting, EPSS, Learning Ecosystems, LMS, Performance analytics, Performance Assessments, Performance Support, Performer Support, Rants & Ramblings, Sustained Capability, Technology

One of my favorite movies of all time is “Little Big Man” starring a very young Dustin Hoffman who was abducted as a toddler by Indians…yes, I know, Native Americans. He grew up through childhood to become a young adult brave, and had an adopted grandfather who was also the tribal medicine man. Whenever he was confronted with a challenge growing up the old man would always say…sweeping his arm wide, “Endeavor to persevere!”. When confronted with people who seemed bent on destroying him, the advice given by the old man…

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Training Needs To Get Plucked

August 10, 2012
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, EPSS, Learning @ the Point of Work, LMS, Performer Support, Rants & Ramblings, Sustained Capability, Technology

<RANT> Did any of you read the article posted at Chief Learning Officer’s site, “When Employees Hack Learning – and Why That’s a Good Thing”? If not check it out – short and sweet – and right on the money. Evidence of this "hacking" also shows up as something that many LMS administrators see in their reporting summaries as a negative signal – Course Incompletions – courses forever in “In Progress” status, and likely never to be completed. This is NOT a negative indicator of the value of training content,…

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When Does a Cloud-based LMS Make Sense?

July 12, 2012
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| Categories: Learning @ the Point of Work, Learning Ecosystems, LMS, Performer Support, Technology

A few years ago, I am quite certain, I would have been fighting this “cloud” concept tooth and nail. There was something about having my own staff running my own servers behind my own firewall that provided a sense of security and control. To an extent it did, and the IT staff would be the first to man the ramparts to fight off having anything living outside the firewall – much less allowing anyone outside to get into our systems. I feel their concern, and I respect the need to…

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LMS Terrors – Reporting & Taxonomy…or lack thereof…

June 20, 2012
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| Categories: LMS, Rants & Ramblings, Taxonomy, Technology

I wish I had a nickel for every time I read a post on one of my networking groups where someone asks what features they should be sure to get on their LMS. Having been down that path multiple times, I can say the chances of finding one with the “best features” are really good, because most LMSs I’ve seen have all of them. My point being this – the LMS is the commodity – the world does not revolve around the LMS – the application in which the LMS…

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