I have begun a venture into podcasting…. well, the design of it anyway. Although we have not implemented a thing yet I have fleshed out a “program” strategy based on the needs in the org. One thing is for certain, we need to leverage the “wisdom of the crowds” (cliché, I know…but it fits). I […]
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I recently read Clark Quinn’s post on the Social Media cigarette break and how he points out that Social Media is being used outside of an organization’s IT infrastructure because organizations are blocking their worker’s access rather than educating them and providing guidelines. He further says that employees are finding their access via mobile means
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Recently one of my favorite researchers/thinkers in the area of workplace learning, Jane Hart @c4lpt had a great series called The Performance Specialist: 3 case studies on her Blog. In it, she provided a performance situation, a typical training dept. solution and ultimately the hypothetical approach of a Performance Specialist.This led me to a conversation
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Recently I was sucked into a tweet… @jenisecook reacted inquisitively to a post by @guywwallace in which he wrote “Just because a Learning Professional can determine a valid K/S need – does not in and of itself warrant meeting that need.” My tweet of “Me too” was in response to Jenise’s desire for more background
Social Learning happens constantly in organizations, but the moment you recognize and work to formalize it by adopting social media, the skeptics appear. Many organizations view learning as happening by and through training only. i.e. if we’re not training, they’re not learning… Therefore when you present ideas that drive learning without training, bottom up solutions
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