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Is There a Learning Performance Ecosystem Blind Spot?

March 31, 2019
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| Categories: Accelerated Productivity, Performance Insights, Performance Support, Point of Work Assessment, Rants & Ramblings, Sustained Capability

There were 22-souls in the breakout session looking at me expectantly. It was 4PM of day 2 of LSCon in Orlando, and they were as fried as I was. At least we were only 60-minutes away from adult beverages in the networking event to follow. The butterflies were in my belly as usual, but I’d at least succeeded to coax them into flying formation and pulled the trigger, “How many of you here today feel your organization has a dynamic learning performance ecosystem in place today? By show of hands…how…

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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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Finally…A Seat at the Table…Don’t Blow It!

March 7, 2019
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| Categories: Accelerated Productivity, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability, Workforce Capability

This short post is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but there’s an important message…and an invitation. I’m seeing a lot of posts and articles promoting new learning technology and learning in the workflow. What a positive move that does my heart good to see this FINALLY happening. Will the results be what we expect? Significant risk can result if L&D is more “ready” to innovate than being at a state of “readiness” to innovate.  Don’t confuse the two.  (more…)

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INTENTIONAL DESIGN: It’s About Providing Support Under Fire

March 5, 2019
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| Categories: 70:20:10, Intentional Design, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability, Technology, Workforce Capability

This choice of title may be an indication I’ve been reading too many Alex Berenson novels, but it rang true this morning, so it is what it is. Intentional Design has nothing to do with “black ops” or covert military or clandestine operations: but I must confess there may be elements best executed more “covertly” than “overtly” at least until adoption has proven its worth with evidence of sustained impact. Intentional Design is NOT a new design methodology. We have plenty good ones…like 5 Moments of Need, 70:20:10 and SAM…

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POINT-of-WORK: Disruptions from Adopting “Intentional Design” Practices

February 8, 2019
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| Categories: Accelerated Productivity, Continuous Learning, Insight Curation, Intentional Design, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Moment of Need, Performance analytics, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability, Workforce Capability

Part of adopting a Point-of-Work Solution Discipline includes design...intentional design that is...of the assets used at moments of need. In a recent blog post, Chasing Productivity or Accelerating Productivity, I received a number of comments and several great questions specific to “What Is Intentional Design?” As often is the case, one blog post spawns another, and offers a chance to key on points that trigger comments and questions. Adopting Intentional Design practices is a non-disruptive disruption. Now that that is cleared up, I’d like to explain how a disruption can…

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Is Your L&D Function Equipped to Be a Disrupter…or a Disruptee?

January 29, 2019
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| Categories: Accelerated Productivity, Continuous Learning, Digital Performance Support, Five Moments of Need, Insight Curation, Intentional Design, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Moment of Need, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability, Technology

“Disruption” is getting a lot of airplay of late…and rightly so, even if you only consider the disruption of transitioning enterprise systems (Digital Transformation) to the cloud. The implications to L&D are enormous when you consider the L&D team owns end-user readiness and tasked to ensure sustained capability at Point-of-Work. The question becomes one of “Do we (L&D) aggressively pursue proactive readiness, or…do we react to deployment training shortfalls after it shifts to implementation and the journey to full adoption while bottom-line business value is at a very real risk?”…

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POINT-of-WORK: Diversity of Disruption

January 13, 2019
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| Categories: Accelerated Productivity, Insight Curation, Intentional Design, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Moment of Need, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability
Learning Performance Continuum

Whether or not to move an organization’s technology infrastructure to the cloud appears to be more of a question of “when” to begin the move; not a question of “if” it makes sense to make the move. Take Digital Transformation as an example, though spoken as a single phrase, is by no means a singular event; in fact, transitioning to the cloud is phase-worthy, hugely complex, and typically spread over a couple of years of diverse disruptions due the enormity of the move. While IT resources shoulder a great deal…

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Old Dog with New Tricks?

December 21, 2018
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| Categories: 70:20:10, Continuous Learning, EPSS, Five Moments of Need, Insight Curation, Learning @ the Point of Work, Learning Performance Assessment, Learning Performance Ecosystem, LES, Moment of Need, Performance Support, Point of Work Assessment, Rants & Ramblings, Sustained Capability

It’s always amazing to me where my posts come from, and this one is no exception. I’ll blame this one on @Brandon Carson in his recent LinkedIn feed contribution where he referenced tiring of the phrase “30-under-30”. Needless to say, comments flew from the ether positioning for and against, and the dialogue got me thinking about my own career…and my status of being an “old dog”. Methinks it’s not so much about the age as it is about the “tricks” that are brought to the table...and the underlying passion fire…

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POINT-of-WORK: Optimize the ENTIRE Ecosystem with Intentional Design

September 25, 2018
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, Five Moments of Need, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability

Once upon a time I was under the influence of learning technology; strung out on LMS. It was a relentless addiction to the perception that training drove performance outcomes. It’s all my team could think about, and it was all our stakeholders could think about. Everyone encountering a performance challenge wanted TRAINING. If the desired performance did not result, we obviously needed more, better, faster training. In reality, the only two things we ever came close to optimizing were Bob Mosher’s first two Moments of Need…NEW & MORE, and the…

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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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