Visioning with People with Vision
One of the things that I struggle with both professionally and in my doctoral studies is being in conversations with people who lack the skills needed or experience needed to see the vision and help craft the way. The red flag for me is someone who asks for your need, fails to respond to queues [...]
How To Get the Most from Training Groups
We’ve all spent time wondering what it is that training departments and trainers do all day. In fact, if you read my blog often enough you’ve probably caught some posts about the change in training departments from being all formal learning to being a full-service provider of learning including multiple modalities, multiple styles, and multiple [...]
Being a Full Spectrum Provider
Clark Quinn, writing for TogetherLearn, posted an interesting response to criticism about the informal learning. Quinn’s point was simply that training is changing and a true professional will include elements of informal learning into the spectrum of services provided for clients and organizations. I couldn’t agree more.
In my research people often think that I am [...]
An Expansive Vocabulary
All my life, I’ve been told to expand my vocabulary. The reasoning ranges from the fun of new words to the importance of being intelligent. As of late, I’ve been told that the words I use intimidate those that do not have expansive vocabularies. The feedback has come in combination with other feelings that the [...]
Metalearning
I use the term metalearning alot when talking about the underlying principles in my training and development work. I used it yesterday and got a funny look (over the phone). The other party said “you mean learning, right?”
I responded in the negative and reassured the person I meant metalearning. But what is it?
Metalearning refers to [...]
Leading through Learning
The March 2009 issue of Atlantic Monthly featured an article titled, “How the Crash will Reshape America” by Richard Florida, a professor at University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. I caught the interview on NPR and the idea intrigued me to begin thinking about learning and creativity.
Florida’s primary tenet was that the economic reset the [...]
Learning Taxonomies are Useful
Tom Gram asked, in a recent post dubbed Fun with Learning Taxonomies:
Have learning taxononomies been useful or irrelevant in your own instructional design work?
The post serves as a nice summary of the most popular taxonmies for learning from Bloom to Merrill. As Tom points out many people use taxonomies as the end all be all [...]
Podcasting and Teleconferencing
Last week I was speaking to a few people about podcasting as a form of learning intervention. My research is narrowing to look at the podcasting technology solely and this gives me the impetus to reflect on the tool in terms of learning and other aspects. I began to think about podcasting in the ways [...]
Transitioning to Performance
Many years ago I made a decision to go into training and development. I loved the idea of educating job performers at something and watching it come to fruition on the floor (so to speak). A nice side benefit is the feeling of glory and pride when people know you and come to you for [...]
Performance Support 2.0
I’ve been reading Harold Jarche‘s posts on change in the L&D industry, the future of training and development, and proficiency-based training. Harold is right on target with his predictions and sensitivity to the industry as it is happening now. I have no doubts Harold has been saying this for years and people looked at him [...]