tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33977539590922714662012-01-24T08:32:00.970-08:00This blog discusses various topics surrounding training development (ID/ISD) and performance improvement (HPI/HPT) in the 21st century.Paul Angilerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04806213503008876743noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397753959092271466.post-64190514039984403412012-01-24T07:22:00.000-08:002012-01-24T08:32:00.992-08:00

I read this story on Business Insider, and it proceeded to do nothing more than annoy me. Not because I feel some amount of trepidation over the problems the United States faces with cheaper competition in labor markets abroad, but because this story is just restating what we already know, while apparently seeking to send readers in the U.S. into a tailspin of doubt.Is the transplant of

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I received ISPI's Performance Digest for the day, and I was struck by the lack of substance. Indeed, a couple of the stories seem to conflict ("Change Management vs. Change Leadership" and "Rise of the Change Manager"), many are the obvious ("The Best Approach to Training", "Stop Long, Boring Staff Training; Start Short, Social Learning Modules"), others are laments ("Intelligence Lost: The

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I recently finished reading Jeffrey Liker's The Toyota Way. It's a very interesting look inside the company and process that has had many a corporation, big and small, trying to emulate Toyota's success, whether in manufacturing, or other industries. From a performance improvement perspective, the book's exposition on Toyota's culture and worldview makes an engaging case study. One of the key

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CLO magazine has a good, quick article that highlights what I think is an important point, especially for WLP professionals to consider. The article discusses the pitfalls of implementing best practices, especially in the information age, when those practices could change every other month, if not more. I think this point is similar to an answer I once heard a corporate executive give in response

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I checked my LinkedIn front page this morning to find this update posted by a contact of a friend of mine: "Great meeting with a Danish customer today. They had some timeless advice for marketers I wanted to share: simplicity is valuable, the only person you hurt when you badmouth the competition is yourself, "do what you say" and share your failures as well as your successes."This isn't

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A recent article over at CLO online talks about the problem of information overload in the workplace. The article talks about the impact of this problem on the quality of work, the morale of employees, and the amount of time information overload causes when people have to keep re-orienting to tasks they get pulled away from, or get prioritized into.While the thrust of the article is about how to

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June's Big Question over at LCB asks how WLP professionals might break down organizational walls to learning. I recently read Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind, and one of the central themes of the book is that we are in an age where we have to think more conceptually, and less analytically, partly because the tools to free our minds from rote work are readily available. I want to borrow that theme

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What does your organization spend on PM training?: http://ping.fm/cXKx7

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CNBC puts a body on the annual March Madness vs. worker productivity "study": http://ping.fm/St1FF

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I read about this in T+D's news. The four life aspects - body, mind, home, and community - that are the focus of DailyFeats' model immediately reminded me of Stewart Friedman's Total Leadership, which I read last year. Both use a four part model that helps individuals quantify what they are doing in each part of their life. Friedman's model, however, is more complete, I think. Friedman focuses on

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A great point about changing the old 1-2-3-4 paradigm: http://ping.fm/t4Sxx

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ASTD posted a column by Laleh Patel reviewing a study by ASTD and I4cp on the rapid advancement of learning development technologies, and where companies are in adopting new instructional strategies. The study found that a shocking 97% of polled companies still use the traditional classroom for current courses. Now, "shocking" isn't meant to imply that the classroom should have been abandoned

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has posted a story about Professor Jeremy Littau at Lehigh University, and how he has used not only social media, but a range of other modern paradigms like crowdsourcing to teach his university journalism classes. Not only that, he has actively involved the students in teaching and providing feedback on the methods used in his courses. In fact, his students were

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The question is posed - as has been an annual tradition for several years now - in this month's Big Question: What have you learned about learning in the past year?For me the answer to this question is easy: How people process information in the modern context, and how technology has enabled each person's inner individualist.A few months back I wrote a white paper for a masters class that dealt

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Four years ago this month I took a personal extended road trip that lasted nearly three weeks. I didn't have to be anywhere by a certain date. I didn't have to plan to be back to work. I had the freedom to go almost anywhere I wanted. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. To this day I find it hard to describe how freeing an experience it was, and I long for the opportunity to do it

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Tony Karrer posts an interesting Big Question this month. Clive Shepard and Jason McDonald have already posted a couple replies; I especially like Jason's indignation over questions whose relevance is very narrow. I also like the format in which Clive answered the Big Q. So, I will rob a bit from both for my own take.One of questions I have dealt with is: How do we get the special knowledge of

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There is an emerging discussion about how individuals cope with the flood of information sources that are available at present. I recently wrote a white paper that highlighted the importance of understanding the ways in which individuals in an organization select and use sources of information, and how an individual's "information habits" are an important dynamic in creating meaningful skills

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Spherion has just published the results of a study by Monster.com on how the wavering economy has affected the relationships between managers and their staff in the workplace. The results are not good. Surprising numbers of workers are finding their relationships with their managers deteriorating, and many responding that they could do a better job managing than their current boss. One

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I was reading a short interview that the folks at Bloomfire did with Loventrice Farrow, a communications specialist at Boeing. In it Farrow is asked about important books that tackle the issues in training at the corporate level. Farrow's offering is Discussion as a Way of Teaching, by Brookfield & Preskill. The answer Farrow gives to the last question is the one that caught my attention: "...I

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One of the big questions many WLP professionals have had of late concerns the pace with which technologies are changing and presenting new options for them, either for development or implementation. Personally, I think that it's futile for those in training and human performance improvement roles to try staying on the bleeding edge. It's not worth it because you can never move fast enough.

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Residents of the Phoenix area who may be in a range of technology fields from SEO to web development to graphic design to computer science may have already heard of GangPlank. GP is a unique effort that began a few years ago to bring people of disparate fields together by having them work in close proximity in a common workspace. The logic is that interesting things are likely to happen as a

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This study by Patterson & McFadden (2009) provides us a window into one of the burning questions in higher education right now: The effectiveness of distance education (or online) degree programs versus traditional "brick-n-mortar" programs. The results are interesting for the task of talent development. Patterson & McFadden have seen a very significant attrition rate for the two online programs

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This month's Learning Circuits Big Question is: DOES THE DISCUSSION OF "HOW THE BRAIN LEARNS" IMPACT YOUR ELEARNING DESIGN? I think there is some further parsing that's needed in the question, but in my case the answer is a simple yes, but not in the way that's implied. The details are problematic. In instructional design there are some established best practices when breaking up content into

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A story in Automotive News this week details GM's plans to revitalize Cadillac's sales numbers by improving the experience for buyers. As the article discusses, the sales of GM's Cadillac division have been lagging for many years behind the once peerless pace they had in the late 1990s. GM is employing the help of hotel chain Ritz-Carlton's trainers to help the shield-and-crescent dealerships

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My wife and I attended the final day of the Ansel Adams exhibit here at the Phoenix Art Museum a few days ago. Adams' photography is familiar to nearly anyone, and he has produced some of the most stunning images of the 20th century without the use of the high technology. I am a bit of a hobby photographer myself, and have always admired Adams' ability to find a kind of depth in monochrome that

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Clive answers the May Big Question with a synopsis that I think is very much on the mark. I want to comment on a couple aspects of his response from my perspective.He talks about the economic pressures on training budgets and performance, and how various technologies are impacting how training is delivered and how users are pushing some of the envelope outside mandates or supervision from

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TDblog had a posting last week citing figures from a survey conducted by Right Management about the frequency of career discussions between employees and their managers. More than a third – thirty-seven percent - of the 683 respondents reported that they never hold such discussions with their manager. Thirty percent reported doing so once a year, and around twenty-eight percent reported having

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So I just upgraded to one of Apple's new 27" iMacs. The i7-"cored" model I picked up has been sitting on my desk now for five days, and I've just managed to get most of it set up amidst my studies, work, and personal life. I can't wait to see how this thing works as a development machine. I've been using a self-assembled PC for the last four or so years and it finally wore out its welcome. This

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This month's Learning Circuits Big Q is about open content and the workplace:How do we leverage open content in workplace learning?Tony Karrer gives a couple examples of open content stores for adult education, such as the OER Commons and the Open Courseware Consortium. The Big Q is a search for answers as to why open content appears not to be on the uptake as much as the sheer access to the

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Last week my class discussed learning style inventories and how they can potentially help adult learners understand how they learn in order for them to make more informed choices when pursuing continuing education and professional development. As a function of that coursework I began thinking about how to use mixtures of these inventories (which is an improper term I think; "learning personality

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This quarter I am immersed in a class dealing with theory and trends in adult education. A most rousing topic in the discussion of generational differences in the classroom has been the focus of the last couple weeks, and will be the main focus from here through March. We've been discussing the four most prevalent generations, from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_generation (1925-1942),

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So back in August I had posted about Timothy Hill's article on Impact On Business, or IOB. The primary thrust of the article was that CLOs require a means that can show how interventions - primarily training - impact business metrics. This is certainly no small issue in workplace learning and performance. At the time I was in the process of completing an ROI certification class as part of my

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Tony Karrer posted November's Learning Circuits Big Question today, and the subject of this one is compelling. The question is how to sell the use of social media (SM) for training and performance improvement purposes in the workplace, particularly when there may be fellow colleagues and/or management that may be not familiar with or are biased against it. As a WLP professional that uses SM

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There's a concept that's been around for some time in training. That concept is tacit knowledge (TK), and the term defines what I think is the holy grail for training analyses and designs to convey to learners: The between-the-lines knowledge that expert workers have that they use to accomplish work. When I say "between-the-lines", I mean the bits of knowledge they form and/or pick up throughout

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I've been in instructional design and development for just over ten years now, and for that span of time, the Windows PC was the platform for the best and most powerful apps. Chris over at eQuixotic has been keeping a very watchful and longing eye on the continuing but very slow transition of key development apps over to Apple's OSX. Chris covers ScreenFlow 2.0, the latest Mac-only elearning app,

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Last month I read a piece in CLO magazine by Blackboard's Timothy Hill on what he called Impact On Business, or IOB. I was able to make contact with Mr. Hill to ask him further about his article. His office responded very quickly and openly to my request, sending me a white paper he had put together on the concept. The white paper doesn't discuss anything new, although it is a bit more

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In the latest issue of CLO magazine, one of the stories that caught my attention from the front cover was the one by Timothy Hill of Blackboard, Inc., entitled Measure Smart: Trade ROI for IOB (it's in NXT book format). After reading it, I must confess I'm not sure what the hubbub is about. Have I missed the point?Before I go further let me reveal that I am currently pursuing my ROI certification

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Well it's been a while since I posted here, partly due to one Masters class ending, interviewing for openings, taking a short vacation, starting a new position, and then my next class, all within one month. Alright, maybe things weren't *so* jam-packed that I couldn't have managed at least one entry. Anyhow, it's time to get back to the business of discussing knowledge work and performance

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It's been a good couple weeks since I've gotten a chance to post, what with my Masters program picking up a real head of steam and several networking events that have had me out and about. So last night I was preparing for a short trip to Atlanta. I was making sure I had all the documents I needed, checking and double-checking to verify I hadn't done anything dumb. I was bringing a laptop with me

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I attended the Greater Arizona eLearning (GAZeL) Association's recent meeting at Arizona State University's SkySong here in Scottsdale, and was treated to a great presentation and talk on the current state of mlearning (mobile learning). Brad Boute of (r)elearning blog and Ann Boland of OHE Associates presented, and it was a very instructive and eye-opening couple hours full of facts and debate

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I'd like to first say Thanks! to Tony Karrer for linking back here.I was reading Tony's eLearning Technology blog yesterday afternoon, and I saw his post about profile photos and how to use them for professional networking. It's a worthwhile topic, and one that is becoming especially important in the Web 2.0 world, where people across the spectrum of industry and professions seek to stay in touch

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ASTD, in a study on informal learning conducted in conjunction with the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), published a short synopsis of the results of their study yesterday. As the post on ASTD's blog states:...e-mail emerged as the top-ranked informal learning tool at 68%. Accessing information from a company Intranet came in at a close second, with 65% of respondents citing its use

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Last night my wife and I went to see the highly praised off-Broadway show STOMP at ASU's Gammage auditorium. My wife has seen many more live shows than I, including this one, and she has been anxious to take me to see it for some time. I knew the basic gist of the show - an acrobatic display combining dance, rhythm, and inventive percussion techniques and tools - but I was not sure if there was

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Over the last few days I've been thinking a post Donald Clark put up last week entitled Bayard throws the book at books. Donald's post is about Professor Pierre Bayard's engagingly titled book How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read. As Donald explains, Bayard recognizes that there is a problem with relying on books. People forget what's in them, they recall things incorrectly; many (including

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DailyTech posted a story this evening about a Forrester Research report looking into the take-up of the iPhone in the corporate space. Heretofore Apple's entry into the smart phone market has been seen as more consumer than prosumer, and as DailyTech points out, the iPhone still has many counts against it for many corporations. My most recent client had and continues to have many of the same

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Normally I tackle adult-oriented education and performance improvement on this blog. Not so this time: A friend of mine told me about Ripple Reader. After checking this out, this is a great service for parents, kids, and children's book authors everywhere.Parent company Ripple provides a wonderful demonstration of their service once you fill out their information form. The gist is essentially

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Well, as I hinted all the way back in February, I wanted to review Adobe's latest rev of the now training-staple Captivate elearning development application. Now that I am not in the midst of a course project nor traveling, I have the opportunity to appropriately review Captivate as I have been itching to do. I was very happy when Captivate 3.0 broke cover last year, and I am glad 4.0 follows on

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training,clients,solutions,design,tools One of the most common problems training organizations face is the hot dog stand sort of view that their clients have of them. Clients get used to training as the fix to most or all of their problems, and with this mindset they often come to the internal training organization with a to-go order that they look to be fulfilled by training resources. Clients

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So the last two weeks have been quite action-packed for me. Finishing up this quarter's Masters project proved more time consuming than initially expected, and I'm glad I started it a couple weeks early! I had to prepare elearning and classroom instruction modules that complemented each other for a new software application put in place by my client. This was an interesting project in that it

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I participated in the first half of a session on the power of LinkedIn for training industry professionals this past Friday. The session was delivered by Tony Karrer of eLearning Technology blog, and Mark Sylvester. Alas, I did not get to stay for the entire hour, but the polls that Mark ran revealed some interesting results. About two-thirds of the audience was using LinkedIn to varying degrees,

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While querying the almighty Google this afternoon for the relative position of my blog in its listings (I'm not even in the first 10 pages yet...must modify strategy), I found this gem from 2005. I certainly wish I had such an instructive experience when I was a child, but this raises my confidence in the proliferation of technology to classrooms at every level. Teaching children these technology

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I received a Tweet from Clive Shepherd of Clive On Learning this morning, and I must say the video he linked is very compelling. It's a demonstration of a new interactive interface that utilizes microcomputers within small block-sized instruments - called "Siftables" - with small LCD screens, and each block interacts and is aware of other blocks through wireless communication. This is definitely

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I must send another thanks to Tony Karrer, for Tweeting me this article this morning. The writer describes a project he was once a consultant on, where his unconscious interjection of his concept of the "perfect" solution and its related characteristics colored what he provided the customer. In the end he says, his solution did not function as fully as expected because he didn't initially realize

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Before my facilitation at my client's worksite yesterday, I was speaking with one of the participants. We were making small talk before commencing, and the discussion turned to networking and landing a job. The participant mention that he had worked for an aerospace firm earlier in his career. This aerospace firm, of which he still has several friend in its employ, has according to his anecdote,

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As I continue in my Masters coursework at Capella University, each successive quarter project has increasingly driven home the sense that Instructional Design (ID) and Human Performance Improvement (HPI) are converging. Never has this been more apparent than my project this Q1. I am helping a friend and former manager at a company (who shall remain nameless...research ethics) who is seeing this

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Tony Karrer has an instructive posting about wikis. He writes about how often wikis are ill-considered as an elearning tool, primarily due to fears surrounding the insertion of errant or low-quality information by individuals who have little or no expertise. In fact, The Wired Campus has an opinion piece that makes very salient points about new learning technologies such as wikis, and the as-yet

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Chris over at eQuixotic is one of my favorite bloggers in the e-learning community. I can appreciate the view that training programs are often presented poorly, and ultimately leave their audience wanting more. I recently found this post about the book Presentation Zen. I think Chris's post is a must-read for elearning developers of all stripes and backgrounds, and it's one of my recent favs.

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Adobe recently released their latest rev of the now-popular e-learning 2.0 development platform, Captivate. In this latest version 4, Adobe seems to have answered a lot of criticisms many developers of training had for the still quite good version 3. I downloaded a trial copy of Captivate 4.0 the other night in order to see what the substantive changes are from 3.0. My early preview shows some

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A hearty welcome to everyone visiting this blog. I started this in order to do a couple of things: A) start getting my thoughts and views on my profession out there for some discussion and learning to happen, and B) to keep my writing skills fresh and evolving on a (hopefully) daily basis. I encourage you to look around here as well as the other blogs I link to, and hopefully to make this blog

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