I pushed out of my comfort zone yesterday to learn something new. I’m pretty open to new things in my wheelhouse – I tend to feel pretty confident with new technologies or new recipes, things which stretch learning skills which are generally pretty well-toned. But this, this was a new physical challenge, and I
Really nice rundown on the uses of Enterprise Social Networking by Sunder Ramachandran over at Training Journal: Driving engagement within social learning communities Enjoy!
This summer, a Fairfax County, Virginia man captured the decidedly disrespectful conversation of his medical team during his colonoscopy. The Washington Post video of that conversation has since become required viewing in training sessions for medical professionals around the country. In an era when we KNOW that compassionate care yields measurable improvements in patient quality
I periodically scan the environment for new developments in informal learning. The folks at Docebo have a new white paper out, produced in partnership with the Aberdeen Group. It’s an interesting look at the learning landscape, modifying the 70:20:10 model in a way that I think is very promising. They identify 40% of job learning
I just had such a great Out-Of-Box-Experience. My experience was with a new desk chair, manufactured by SPACE . I ordered it online, so of course, it came needing to be assembled. When I opened the box, I got the usual assortment of parts and fasteners, with one brilliant difference. Instead of the bag o’
The folks at Bersin by Deloitte have a brief out about how talent analytics can be harnessed to improve decision making in the human resources arena. They’ve taken a look at some of the new predictive analytics products designed to model retention, performance, leadership and succession planning, and career planning. Wisely, Bersin cautions HR Leaders
I recently picked up a copy of Harvard Business Review’s Ten Must-Reads On Teams. Lynda Gratton and Tamara J. Erickson note in Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams that teams are getting larger, more complex, and more virtual, and that each of these factors mitigates AGAINST successful collaboration. Virtual teams do not witness the highly
Like many of you, I receive a lot of invitations to industry conferences. These days, it’s fashionable to include a video of people talking about the conference and how cool it is. I don’t usually click, preferring to get this sort of information via text, but today, for some reason, I watched the video. I
Katie Everson at Chief Learning Officer posed this question recently. She was reflecting on the difference in MBA work produced by students who were returning to school after a decade or more of experience and those who were coming straight out of undergrad. Unsurprisingly, those with work experience were a better able to make concrete
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article ostensibly designed to be of help to job seekers who might be facing discrimination. As a middle-aged female IT professional who has been participating in social media sites since they were called “bulletin-board systems,” I can’t help but observe that the illustration chosen for the article, which