A leader changing her/his behavior to model more openness & transparency (social) is just an invitation to others, a suggestion, it only creates an option for people to follow: “Do or don’t either way, life goes on.” However, changing the systems (how we manage, how we recognize, what we do about learning, and who gets […]
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It was unquestioned compliance systems that led to the birth of the LMS. And rather than challenge this system, companies took the easy road and bought in and bought technology to address it (sound familiar?). From there, with lots of features & functions and space, they looked to move ALL types of training and even non-training
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The current approaches used to move organizations to be more social are struggling. The first phase was in using social technology. We quickly found out that the idea of “if you build it, they will come” didn’t work. Phase two focused rightly on “culture change” through social leadership initiatives. This is a top down approach
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We can say organizations will change as Boomers leave and new technology and new generations enter but what really happens is the “next” marches in and picks up where the “last” left off. The technologies of change, like social tools, become manipulated by the current system to support the system not change it. Additionally, I chuckle
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Barnes & Noble’s recovery can be attributed to connecting it’s people to it’s community – A Social By Design Solution
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Two key ideas behind Social By Design (SxD) are that 1. being social is natural and our organizations can consciously or unconsciously hinder connection and 2. to release social connection we need to focus on directly changing systems NOT directly changing people. Systems as you know refer to the rules, processes, protocols and procedures within
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Recently someone shared how they use avatars or characters in an elearning course. Some of the uses were: Yes, these are creative and scalable but my first thought was how… as in how did we get here??? and Is this really better than say: We’d really choose to have our employees create and others complete courses
