Are We Asking The Right Questions?
Article:On a recent Friday morning, a classroom of teenagers at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School broke up into small groups and spent an hour not answering questions about Albert Camus’s “The Plague.” It wasn’t that the students were shy, or bored, or that they hadn’t done the reading. They were following instructions: Ask as many questions as they could, and answer none of them.
In 2012, Workers To Demand More Social Media, Mobility, Report Says
Article:Demand for social and mobile collaboration within the enterprise is growing, according to a recent study by ABI Research. A new wave of cloud-based, enterprise-caliber social tools and platforms are emerging as alternatives to email and other “legacy” collaboration platforms in the eyes of workers, the study found.
Deloitte University— What were they thinking?
Article:When I heard that Deloitte had purchased more than one hundred acres to construct a leader development facility in Dallas, I was stunned. What were they thinking?
Then I heard that, in the midst of the great recession, they intended to spend as much as three hundred million dollars in constructing their center. What were they thinking?
13 Practical Tips for Training in Other Countries
Article:Workplace learning and development professionals need to be cautious when embarking on cross-cultural assignments.
Saba Named as a Major Player in IDC’s Integrated Talent Management MarketScape
Article:Leading Analyst Firm Recognizes Saba for Strong Leadership and Global Momentum
We Need a Revolution
Article:It’s time to make learning central to organizational management. For this to work the culture within the tribe needs to focus on core values as the determiner for action.
TED-Ed’s New Video Tool Allows Anyone To Create Video Lessons Online
Article:TED-Ed’s new free platform allows anyone to "flip" any video on YouTube by adding custom content to play alongside it, making it possible to turn any piece of video content into a teachable moment.
Education Unplugged: Learning Through Conversation
Article:Sherry Turkle's essay in Sunday's New York Times, "The Flight From Conversation," raised several critical questions about how our desire to be connected via technology can also be a powerful mechanism for avoiding significant human contact. Turkle, a psychologist and professor at MIT, is no technophobe.
The ROI You Get From Smart Employee Recognition
Article:Do you reward employees according to job performance? Are you sure?
My company, Globoforce, published last week the results of its bi-annual survey with SHRM examining the current state of HR leaders’ employee engagement and recognition practices and their impact on performance management.
Help wanted: Tech workers wooed with catered meals, unlimited vacation time
Article:Down the street from Research In Motion Ltd., (RIM-T13.020.040.31%) where a new CEO is firing senior managers at a firm whose growth has stalled, hundreds of smaller technology firms are having the exact opposite problem: Growing too fast, they can’t find enough people to hire.
Long To-Do List? Make a Not-Right-Now List
Article:In today’s digital age, it's hard to focus. But the Not-Right-Now list can help you get things done.
Most people operate with To-Do lists. If you're like me, it seems as though that To-Do list never ends and you never check everything off of it.
Designing Learning for a 21st Century Workforce
Article:The magic of an effective learning solution is in the blend of formal and informal learning strategies.
Why I Love Employees Who Ask 'Why'
Article:Conventional wisdom says they're a pain. In reality, they are doing you a huge favor.
What you do and how you do it are important. But it’s the “why” that provides the real motivation to succeed.
The Power of Why
An experiment conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business demonstrates the power of “why.”
Action Learning: Key to Developing an Effective Continuous Improvement Culture
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Follow these eight steps to better instill continuous improvement in individuals and teams.
The best methods and the best of intentions can easily fail unless we take into account how adults learn in our organizations. During World War II a process that has become known as Training Within Industry (TWI) and its component Job Instruction (JI) were developed and then adopted by Toyota as it developed its system of production.
Virgin Atlantic Hires Whispering Coach
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The airline hired the coach to train its flight attendants to speak in hushed tones while serving passengers. Crews will be trained on tone and volume. The low tones are reserved for Virgin's new upper class dream suite.
Distance is Dead… Employee Management in 140 Characters or Less
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I ran across an interesting Blog post this past weekend from Daniel Newman, on a site called MillennialCEO.com, entitled, “Death of Distance – Social Media & Collaboration.”
The post was a well-written piece on how ubiquitous social media and collaboration has become in our lives, and that distance is no longer defining the intimacy of relationships (at least from a knowledge-sharing perspective).
How Training Toughens Up Employees and Improves Your Brand
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After several years on life support, the American economy is starting to show stirrings of life. But it’s clear that even if unemployment numbers are dropping, we aren’t soon likely to return to our parents’ economy (or our grandparents’, for that matter).
Between fierce competition and lightening-fast technology improvements, we’re now in an age of perpetual job uncertainty
Teach Trust First
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A few weeks ago, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its annual charge filing and resolution statistics.
The report tracks case trends from 1997 through 2011. Last year, charges rose to the highest level seen in this time period. Yet the percentage of reasonable cause findings of discrimination stayed relatively flat, at 3.8 percent. The other 96.2 percent of the cases were settled with benefits, withdrawn or dismissed. What's causing people to lodge an increasing number of cases even as the administrative findings of liability remain relatively constant?
Are We Teaching Employees the Lessons We Want Them to Learn?
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My youngest, an 8th grader, was recently caught cheating.
On advice from her parents, Natalie approached the teacher before school to admit she wasn’t prepared. Being the day of a basketball game, she asked for a way to suffer the after-school detention on some other day. The teacher told her “no,” so my precious tax break borrowed a chum’s paper in order to write her own before class.
Are You Learning as Fast as the World Is Changing?
Article:Tom Kelly, general manager of IDEO, the world-renowned design firm, likes to quote French novelist Marcel Proust, who famously said, "The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes." What goes for novelists goes for leaders searching to craft a novel strategy for their company, a new product for their customers, or a better way to organize their employees. In a world that never stops changing, great leaders never stop learning.
Celebrate Digital Learning Day
Article:Today, the Alliance for Excellent Education leads a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of the potential of education technology. Its message should resonate with learning leaders.
The Alliance for Excellent Education has named Feb. 1, 2012, “Digital Learning Day,” a nationwide campaign intended to raise awareness of teaching and learning through digital media and technology. Thirty-nine states have committed to the event, which is reaching 1.7 million K-12 students.
Five Ideas for Learning Initiatives in the New Year
Article:Learning leaders at firms across industries are ringing in 2012 with some big ideas, looking to fix old problems and open up new opportunities.
What better way to kick off the new year than by taking a big bite out of a big initiative? I checked with a number of CLOs and executives to learn where they will focus in the new year.
Learning on Speed
Article:Apple recently got lots of press for its move into textbook publishing, but its move was secondary to another announcement made a few weeks earlier. On January 3, Khan Academy announced that Vi Hart would be moving to Mountain View and joining its team.
The Khan Academy, founded by Salman Khan (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. If you want to know how, here is the obligatory TED video. With over 4 million unique users each month, the Khan Academy is attracting high-profile attention, including funding from the Gates Foundation.
Maximizing the ROI on Employee Training with Mobile Learning
Article:No executive in their right mind would argue with the fact that employee training is a basic business necessity. When organizations experience growth, change or competitive pressure, gaps emerge between what employees know and what they need to know in order for the company to remain relevant in the marketplace.
Training and flexible working worth more than money to millennials, according to PwC
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Millennials will form 50% of the workforce in 2020, and the majority value training and development and a healthy work/life balance over salary.
This is according to a major survey of 4,000 graduates from PwC, which found that nearly a quarter (22%) of respondents rated training and development as their number one benefit. Flexible working followed with 19% claiming it was most important, while cash bonuses ranked third (14%).
The report Millennials at work, reshaping the workplace also showed that 72% of those born between 1980 and 2000 have also had to make some sort of compromise in terms of location, salary or industry to get into work.
Jon Andrews, Partner, PwC says: “Millennials want more than ‘just a job’. They expect rapid progression, a varied and interesting career, and constant feedback.