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Supporting Cognitive Performance 26 Aug 2013 | 07:16 pm
It’s clear that our brains aren’t the logical problem-solvers we’d like to be. The evidence on our different thinking systems makes clear that we use intuition when we can, and hard thinking when we ...
Stop training! Or, how to get there from here 14 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
One of the things I’m wrestling with right now is the transition from where we’re at to where we should be. I’ve already said we have to change, the question is how. A number of us have talked about ...
World first! 13 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
A few weeks ago, I posted that we should think social first. I want to amend my statement (I reserve the right to improve my recommendations :) to say “world first”, and clarify what I mean. Earlie...
An update and a request 7 Aug 2013 | 06:55 pm
Actually, let me make the request first: please, please take the L&D Survey, and then ask others to do so as well. You’re free not to, of course, but I’d really appreciate it. As to why, here’s the ...
Meaningful and Experiential 6 Aug 2013 | 06:54 pm
At lunch last week with my colleague Jay Cross, we riffed on the most important word was for learning in the organization. I chose ‘meaningful’, he went with ‘experiential’. They’re both important, b...
State of L&D Survey 30 Jul 2013 | 06:08 pm
What is the current state of L&D, and where is it working (and not)? Some are saying that things are largely okay, while others are suggesting that things must improve. Where are we at? The Learnin...
2nd Loop Learning 24 Jul 2013 | 06:15 pm
It used to be that the L&D model was to prepare people, then send them out to perform. There would be some data collection from the result, including debriefing perhaps, and then the training and per...
Performance Support isn’t (or shouldn’t be) cheap either! 23 Jul 2013 | 06:12 pm
A few posts ago I posited that formal learning should be expensive. Then, as a consequence of my subsequent posts on social first and performance support second, I was in a discussion where the quest...
Supporting Work 18 Jul 2013 | 06:11 pm
A number of years ago, I discussed a useful model that talks about how we solve problems in the world. In the piece, I talked about how when we can’t act, we try to find the answer (and if we do, we ...
Reshaping L&D 17 Jul 2013 | 07:32 pm
Jane Hart (one of my ITA colleagues) has laid out a proposal for the new services of the L&D department, and I think it resonates nicely with some thinking I’ve been having. The point is that L&D has...
