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What Blocks Performance Support from Becoming a Strategic Initiative?

October 9, 2012
| 12 Comments
| Categories: Discovery & Consulting, EPSS, Learning @ the Point of Work, Learning Ecosystems, Performer Support, Sustained Capability

This title implies that performance support is not strategic. The question I am convinced we need to address is this, “Why not?” Perhaps a better title would be, “Whadaya Need, a Knock on the Head?” Maybe I’m all raked up in a pile over this because I’ve witnessed performance support make a tangible difference in previous lives. Back to the question, “Why not?”  Here’s something radical…methinks it’s the stink rubbed off from Training. (more…)

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Does Performance Support Always Have to Be a Post-Training Solution?

September 11, 2012
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| Categories: EPSS, Learning @ the Point of Work, Performer Support

Having been a road warrior sales trainer for enough years to be “platinum-everything” in virtually every frequent traveler program, I have a natural affection for live, stand-up training. The rewards came back to me through good level one evaluations and getting to see the occasional graduate of my new hire product training classes at the year-end President’s Club gala events. It felt good to have a hot shot sales rep come up to me and thank me for the knowledge gained from new-hire training. I did not see it at…

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Designing a Learning & Performance Portal

August 27, 2012
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, EPSS, Learning @ the Point of Work, Performer Support, Social Learning, Taxonomy

I love walking trails in the woods; some are favorites, while others may be new and different. Whenever walking down a new path many things appear that are familiar, remembered and experienced from other paths taken. When new things are discovered, they often can pull me from the path to seek a closer look and a deeper discovery. Being pulled from the path may not be planned, but there is no doubt that diversions such as these will occur. Such a journey, with similar detours from known to unknown, can…

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An Evolving Ground Zero for Training Solutions

August 23, 2012
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, EPSS, Learning @ the Point of Work, Performer Support

One of the most intelligent individuals, Albert Einstein, once defined insanity as, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”  Are we guilty of doing this when we turn to training as the means to boost workforce capability? In reality, training does contribute to this competitive necessity, but the contribution is shrinking when held up against sustained human performance and workforce agility in the workplace. Let’s face it, the rules of engagement for effectively driving performance in our businesses have shifted to a large field of…

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Mapping the Work Context for Performance Support

August 19, 2012
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| Categories: Discovery & Consulting, EPSS, Learning Ecosystems, Performer Support, Rants & Ramblings

With all the recent press performance support is getting…make that positive press…I’m noticing that we could easily slip into a best practice of admiring the problem of what to do about it. To be a bit less sarcastic, I must clarify that admiration of the problem is NOT a best practice, but it often seems like we manage to do it best. (more…)

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The Noise Around Performance Support Is Deafening – Can You Hear It Yet?

August 19, 2012
| 2 Comments
| Categories: EPSS, Learning @ the Point of Work, Performer Support

It has been a long time since I could honestly point to a “training conference” and say, “Now this is one to go to!” The exciting thing is…it’s not a training conference…but anyone “in training” needs to sit up and take this new perspective seriously. Why? Because this is where learning is going at a rapidly increasing pace, and to NOT be a part of the evolution could be career limiting. (more…)

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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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Calculating ROI on EPSS for Learning @ the Point of Work

July 3, 2012
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| Categories: EPSS, Learning @ the Point of Work, Performer Support, Technology

In a campaign to introduce electronic performance support system (EPSS) technology, an innovative and evolved approach to learning, chances are great that you are going to have “SELL” somebody on the idea. You might be surprised WHO will be the first to dig in their heels. Even more surprising…well maybe not…is the reason for the resistance. If you are thinking along the lines of what innovation has the potential to do to embedded training traditions and paradigms, you are on the money. Yup…we’re talking “CHANGE”, and that implies wearing a…

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Justifying Learning @ the Point of Work

January 31, 2012
| 7 Comments
| Categories: Continuous Learning, EPSS, Learning @ the Point of Work, Learning Ecosystems, Performer Support

A recent post “Evolving Training Into the Perfect Hole” brought a comment to me that I could really identify with as being a key challenge – justification for seriously considering learning @ the point of work. I find it stunning that the concept of learning @ the point of work is such a hard sell, especially when you consider that opportunities to learn and moments of potential failure happen at the same time…and very often in the same place - @ the point of work. Better training…or more training…have little-to-nothing…

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EPSS Replaces Product Training – Could It Really?

December 16, 2011
| 5 Comments
| Categories: EPSS, Performer Support, Sales Training

Having been a Sales Trainer, Sales Training Manager, and Director Sales Training in a couple of previous lives, I nearly jumped out of my chair when I read a blog post by a new networking contact, David Brock. Dave authors a blog, Partners in Excellence, and his post of December 7th “Let’s Put an End to Product Training” triggered a wee bit of a dance…not really, but I did unleash a couple mental fist-pumps. First-hand experience and many many road miles confirm how wasteful product training can be. I must…

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