There’s a lively discussion in the CLO LinkedIn group about how to build trust in our organizations. It’s heartening to see how many people in the learning community have thought deeply about this issue. And it makes sense, because as learning professionals, we exercise significant influence over the propagation of our organization’s culture. The learning
The news that there will be no more telecommuting at Yahoo again raises the question of what it takes to build a highly effective workforce. I’m sorry they took a blanket approach at Yahoo. It seems clear that something is lost when people don’t run into one another in the halls, and in the cafeteria,
Michael Echols at Chief Learning Officer has a post this week urging learning leaders to do the research to check whether “best practices” for improving performance which are articles of faith in their organizations are more than myths. It’s shocking how much of what guides common practice has no actual scientific basis, but is merely
The Masie Center recently released its Mobile Learning Pulse Survey. Taken in the Fall of 2012, It’s a worthy read, taken from responses from 823 organizations. The headline finding is that implementation is at its very beginning. Approximately 80% of organizations reported at least a moderate interest in mobile learning. So far that interest has
The Kellogg School of Management devoted its Fall 2012 alumni magazine issue to “The Collaboration Economy” and the school’s commitment to thought leadership within it. Kellogg has LONG been identified with a collaborative approach to the teaching and learning of management skills, so this is an obvious fit. As a loyal alumna who has been
There’s a buzz around micro-learning in training circles. A brief survey of the training-oriented discussion groups on Linked-in suggests that as with many au-courant terms, this one isn’t very well defined. The basic idea is to break training up into very small, highly digestible “chunks” – but what this looks like in practice varies from
Joel Schectman at the CIO Journal blog at the Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Obama campaign used Salesforce to manage communications with its core constituency. Schectman reports:The tool scoured messages for keywords such as “healthcare” or “education,” and displayed issues on a dashboard campaign staffers could look at to figure out what
I’ve been keeping my ear to the ground on the explosion of mobile internet, trying to get to what’s really going on, beyond the hype. Because I think, at a high level, what’s really going on with mobile is a whole lot of just-in-time informal learning. I hear from news reports that people are using
I made an executive decision on a recent vacation to leave my ultra powerful /ultra geeky Windows 7 laptop at home. This is a HUGE step forward for me — my kids figured out long ago that I carry my primary laptop the way other people carry security blankets. But I figured that between my
I participated in a meeting yesterday in which the prospective client is wrestling with some knotty training issues. They are a firm which provides health care, with employees who are on their feet during their work day, attending to patients. Like most organizations today, they are concerned about the cost to the organization of taking