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INTENTIONAL DESIGN – Redirecting L&D Strategy to the Point-of-Work

August 1, 2017
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| Categories: Change Leadership, Discovery & Consulting, EPSS, Performance Assessments, Performance Support, Performer Support, Sustained Capability

To some this may seem like more of a “mis-direction” than a re-direction. Redirection almost sounds like a course correction…and in many respects it is, but then I make that distinction from a previous life experience. Humor me for a minute for a quick story to make the point that L&D in some organizations has lost its way. Yes, it can happen, and this story tells of how that can happen through the eyes of an effective L&D team that was effectively undone. This “undoing” is the basis of my…

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Are You Just Paying Lip Service to 70:20:10?

November 2, 2016
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| Categories: 70:20:10, EPSS, Learning Ecosystems, Performance Assessments, Performance Support, Performer Support, Sustained Capability, Technology

<Rant  Alert> yeah…another one… Now why would anyone ask an accusatory question like that? Likely, no one would, but hey…check out this point of view. It might be a worthy question to ask given the failures of our current Training Paradigm to actually sustain workforce performance.  I mean seriously; based upon how we clutch our current Training Paradigm to our chests like a flotation device in a water landing you’d think workforce performance depends entirely upon our ability to capability. Sorry guys…the only thing we “train-in” is potential. Performance only…

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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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Admiring the Problems of Our Own Success

July 9, 2012
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| Categories: Discovery & Consulting, Learning @ the Point of Work, Performer Support, Sustained Capability

I just stepped out of another awesome dialogue that has triggered another post. A two-part question was asked about “How to influence our training peers to step away from antiquated practices” ...AND... “How to demonstrate to senior leadership that there is a better way to drive performance”. I think both parts of that question are essential and foundational to getting us out of the current practices that are so dangerously embedded. I say “dangerous” because both training budgets and jobs are at risk if we cling to status quo. Until…

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Buck Tradition or Risk Being Crushed By the Scope of Your Paradigm

March 4, 2012
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| Categories: Continuous Learning, Sustained Capability

Yikes! Sounds downright subversive, maybe even a wee bit scandalous to launch right into something at the outset, does it not? Very likely, this chapter title may imply behavior that is a little risky too. Personally, I think it is high time we view risk as a catalyst, not a restrainer...and that is not “too-much-caffeine” doing the talking. Seriously, it is time to act on the risks that threaten training as we know it, and I am not so much talking about Training –the “action” – as much as I…

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