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Deployment Vs. Implementation – Is There a Difference?

May 31, 2018
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, DPS, DRIVER, Learning Performance Assessment, Micro-Learning, point of work

Short answer? Absolutely there’s a difference; a very significant difference despite the fact that many in L&D and other business disciplines use the two words interchangeably. The difference leaves a gaping hole between a successful launch of “anything” and full adoption of “anything” into the flow of business operations. Many of us have plunged down this hole shortly after Deployment of a new enterprise business system…or a new product launch to the sales force...or releasing a new learning intervention to the workforce. Deployment aligns with a moment in time referred…

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Don’t Confuse READY…With READINESS…

October 12, 2017
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| Categories: AGILE, Data Analytics, Discovery & Consulting, EPS readiness assessment, EPSS, Micro-Learning, Performance analytics, Performance readiness assessment, Performer Support, Social Learning, Sustained Capability, Technology, xAPI

If I had to boil down all my bluster and passion in this blog to a single core statement, it would be this: Training, by itself, does not drive performance – it drives potential; …if you truly seek to sustain measurable workforce performance you must go to the Point-of-Work and plan to address diverse Moments of Need with accessible, effective and business relevant solution assets shaped by Intentional Design. (more…)

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What About the Other 95%?

August 23, 2017
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| Categories: Discovery & Consulting, Learning Ecosystems, Micro-Learning, Performance Support, Sustained Capability

Several years ago I had the privilege of being invited to sit on a panel discussion called “The Future of the Business of Learning”. Josh Bersin was one of the other panelists and shared some interesting data that validated my passions around pursuit of a performance paradigm. Josh shared that, on average, we spend about 5% of our 2,000 hour work year in some form of formal training…that’s about 100 hours.  For some industries, that’s high…but hey…it wasn’t what Josh shared…it’s what he did not share. A little math took…

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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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7-Right Things Road Map for Sustained Workforce Performance

May 25, 2017
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| Categories: 70:20:10, AGILE, Continuous Learning, Discovery & Consulting, Learning @ the Point of Work, Learning Ecosystems, Micro-Learning, Performance Assessments, Performer Support, Sustained Capability, Technology

My most recent post addressed the concept of ACCESS to working knowledge at the Moment of Need and often at the Point-of-Work as being essential to drive tangible business results. In that post I included a list of 7-Right Things that, in essence, provide a road map of sorts to accomplishing holistic discovery and support for intentional design. Unlike the narrow scope of a Training Needs Assessment, tracking down the truth behind the 7-Right Things enables us to include the entirety of the learning and performance ecosystem we should be…

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Survey Said…“Enough with the E-Learning Already!”

May 8, 2017
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, EPSS, Micro-Learning, Mobile Learning, Performance Support, Performer Support, Technology

This could be a rant…so hang onto something… It’s funny that our recently surveyed learners told us to STOP forcing E-Learning on them when I just read someplace that E-Learning is on the rise as the solution of choice. The bastion of L&D and the E-Learning vendors are sold on e-learning as the answer it seems. Either our recently on-boarded performers (learners) that we surveyed at the Point-of-Work are whacked, or the folks who are supposed to be on the bleeding edge of developing effective learning solutions are smoking something.…

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Self-Directed Learning or Self-Directed Performance?

April 28, 2017
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, Discovery & Consulting, Micro-Learning, Performance Support, Sustained Capability

Stumbled over a couple of great reads this week that flung a craving on me to share a few thoughts. There is no shortage of new innovation we seek to implement in our L&D discipline, and Micro-Learning is one of the most recent. Depending upon how one chooses to integrate "Micro-Anything", the results can range from truly innovative solutions to merely applying more lipstick on the training pig. (more…)

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Going Ninja & the Covert Art of Hiding 70:20:10

March 24, 2017
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| Categories: Discovery & Consulting, Learning @ the Point of Work, Micro-Learning, MOOCs, Performance Assessments, Performance Support, Performer Support, Sustained Capability

After surviving in the L&D profession for over thirty years, I continue to ponder what is it going to take to trip the trigger that deploys the training air bag? C’mon, man! We’ve tried everything known to humans so far…we gamify, we MOOC, we micro, we burst, we space, we go virtual, we go mobile, we asynch, bi-synch, tri-synch, and…and…and it’s still training, and we continue to follow the same road map to achieve the most effective training outcomes using myriad methodologies and technologies. How many times will we endure…

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Attention Span of a Gnat?

February 21, 2017
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, Learning @ the Point of Work, Micro-Learning, Performer Support, Rants & Ramblings, Technology

This and other derogatory descriptions of the Millennial generation have filled many of the posts in my networking groups. Often the source offering the descriptions belongs to the Boomer crowd. It’s so easy to stand in the comfort of your own state of being and point to another and clearly define THEIR problems and shortcomings. I think most of it is crap. Seriously, look around; look around at the environment and the velocity of work demands we ALL face. Maybe having the concentration agility of a gnat is not such…

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Did Cavemen Use Micro-Learning?

January 4, 2017
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| Categories: Micro-Learning, Mobile Learning, MOOCs, Performance Support, Performer Support, Social Learning, Sustained Capability, Technology, Video Learning

Guess what? They did…and in the absence of technology. The whole thing went down on a Thursday morning when an informal micro-learning moment went social and was delivered synchronously at the Point-of-Work…and…at a critical Moment of Need. Whaaat? They were freaking cavemen for crying out loud. Who woulda thunk it? (more…)

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