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Evaluating with the Success Case Method
In my last post I mentioned that I prefer the Success Case Method for evaluating learning (and other) interventions to the Kirkpatrick approach. A few readers contacted me asking for information on the...
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The 30 Second MBA
I came across this interesting resource recently–The 30 second MBA. It’s a venture of Fast Company Magazine. Leaders and entrepreneurs from a variety of industries are asked to describe their approach...
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Extending Action Mapping for Performance Design
Through her Action Mapping process Cathy Moore has demystified, simplified and put a friendly face on an analysis process that produces lean and effective learning programs with an emphasis on practice...
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Making Informal Learning Assets Work
Seeking ways to leverage new social media environments, learning departments are discovering ways to sneak a little formal learning through the informal learning back door. Some of our clients for...
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I Want it Now!
The Learning Circuits Blog big question this month is: How do you respond to the “I want it now!” request from a demanding executive? They provide the scenario of a Type A executive with a website...
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Mapping Informal and Formal Learning Strategies to Real Work
During the Q&A at a recent conference session on Social Learning, a retail industry attendee asked “I have to train 300 store level associates in new product knowledge in the next three months. Is...
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Designs for Natural Learning
What learning are you designing at the moment? If you’re a traditional instructional designer it may be a structured e-learning or classroom program. If you have a more constructivist bent you may be...
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8 Ways to Improve the Strategic Value of Custom Learning
About half of the formal training provided in organizations is custom developed (the other half are packaged “off-the-shelf” programs). That’s a lot of training. Every week internal learning design...
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Moving Practice to Centre Stage
As digital content becomes more prevalent (free and otherwise), there’s much talk about the new role of the learning professional as content curator or content strategy developer. I agree this will be...
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Practice Makes Perfect Revisited
Last Thursday (November 17), I presented a session on the use of deliberate practice in learning and performance at the CSTD national conference in Toronto. I promised participants that I would post...
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Everyday Experience is not Enough
A core tenet of informal and social learning is that we learn through experience. It’s the elephant in the 70-20-10 room. It’s often used as an admonishment to formal learning. Advocates of the most...
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Four Learning Traps to Avoid in 2012
I started writing this around new years, looked at it again yesterday and thought I’d better get it posted before we get so deep into 2012 that any feelings of renewal fade (too late?). If you’ve...
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