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
In a recent issue of Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Mike Prokopeak reported on a recent poll by Lee Hecht Harrison. An overwhelming 91 percent of workers said that job training and career development were among their top priorities…Six percent called it a “duty.” Just 3 percent said it is a hindrance. The polling agency sees
The blogs are all atwitter (can we say that these days?) with discussion about coaching. Who should receive coaching? Executives, or everybody? Under what circumstances? There are calls for a “coaching culture” in which everybody coaches everybody else, all the time. I admit, I’m attracted to that model. Except that if one is not already
Atul Gawande did an excellent reflection on the value of coaching last year for The New Yorker. While we normally think about coaching as something we do for people who are new to the tasks at hand, Gawande’s focus was on what happens when experienced professionals take on a coach. He offered this fascinating case
One of the things we try to do with our training initiatives is keep the activities as near to the tasks required for learners’ jobs as possible. Of course we also want to be training space to be a place where it’s safe to make errors . And frequently we want to make the thinking
My husband is a family doc who works for a large medical group owned by a hospital system. The system is rolling out a new Electronic Medical Records system and my beloved, who as medical director is the divisional advocate for physicians, will be among the first in his division to get it. I’ve been
The educational world is abuzz with the concept of flipping. I initially saw it in response to the K-12 modules made available at Kahn Academy. Teachers have been sufficiently impressed with the quality of the content presentation available at Kahn, that they have started “outsourcing” lecture to Kahn, and now spend class time helping their
At the HRD 2012 conference, attendees heard that the role of the learning professional is more and more shifting to that of “curator” of content already available to the public, rather than producer of proprietary content for the organization. Color me skeptical. Certainly, especially in consumer product fields, there is a great deal to be
Adobe commissioned a global study on creativity and released it this week. It’s an interesting and light read, since it’s mostly charts and graphs. It’s nice to see that around the world, (or at least in the US, UK, Germany, France, and Japan) we agree that people are inherently creative, irrespective of age and opportunity
We at Q2 have been doing a lot of thinking about mobile learning these days. I’ve been reading all over the place trying to come up to speed. This post is likely the first in a series of reflections on the challenge. What is it? What I think mobile learning means to LEARNERS is