Learning Mgmt
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Talent Particles in Action
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Until tonight, I’ve never seen a lightning storm from above the clouds. I’m not sure what percentage of lightning strikes actually are visible below the clouds, but this storm…
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The Future of Learning
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Those of you who read this blog often know that I’m a cyclist and generally a fitness kind of guy. I’m actually fairly obsessive, and on a recent day…
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Immediacy without Details
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I’ll have to be honest – I’m having a really hard time with some of the new technology. I’m supposed to be a technologist and be up on all…
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Gaming: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
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I’ve been writing a lot about gaming and being an advocate for the learning activities that it promotes. In many cases and for many games, there is active online…
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What does Irony Taste Like?
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My wife and I were recently at dinner with her sister’s family. One of the boys is about 14 years old, and as we were waiting for our table,…
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Training Innovation
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I’ve been thinking a lot about whether you can teach people how to be innovators. As North America and EMEA slowly loses production and manufacturing work to countries like…
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The Singularity
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What is “the singularity?” It’s basically the Terminator movie in practice. The singularity predicts that there is a point where computers become so intelligent that they are able to…
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Enterprise 2.0 Diagram
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I ran across this quite interesting and comprehensive e2.0 diagram and thought I’d share. I like how it’s organized with Actors, Technologies and Methods as part of the engine…
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Your Best Employees
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So who are your best employees? Are they simply the top performance scores? Are they the ones who hold the most patents? Have the best win ratio when in…
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Gaming and Collaboration
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Gen Y. They sit at their PC’s, play their games, and avoid all real social contact. As they enter the workforce, their lack of social skills will be a…
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An Update with Sum Total
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I’ll admit. It caught me completely off guard to find out that the major learning vendors (Saba and Sum Total) have been offering talent management systems for the better…
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Video iPods in Training
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“Training is now going to employees rather than the other way around.” ((Gronstedt, Anders. June 2007. “Employees Get and Earful.” HBR June 2007, Pg 26)) A few months ago…
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Choosing the Right Talent Strategy to Drive Profits
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So how much does it cost to drive up revenues by 1%? There are many possibilities including: Cost of acquiring new talent versis: Cost of developing new talent Cost…
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HR Strategy – What Really Matters?
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Harvard Business Review recently published that “Most traditional HR performance metrics – such as employee turnover rates, average time to fill open positions, and total hours of training provided…
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We Don’t Have the Infrastructure to Develop Talent
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A recent New York Times article ran a story about the increasingly large volumes of college applicants and the decreasing rates of admittance rates for college bound high school…
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Educating for a Lifetime
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With rapid changes in technology, the business environment, and the dynamic nature of knowledge usability in the modern world, managing one’s career becomes increasingly difficult. Necessity dictates that employees…
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Training Salespeople
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Miller Heiman has the ever popular “blue sheet” sales training, and there are many others like it. Teaching sales people how to sell isn’t necessarily the type of training…
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Web 2.0 Networks and HR
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This is an increasingly featured topic on this site. Innovation networks and collaboration networks are of great interest to the business community because it ties together how work and…
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HR Versus Finance – Influence, Power, and a Seat at the Table Part 2
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Lowell Bryan wrote in the McKinsey Quarterly that there is a new metric around: Times have changed and ROIC is no longer important – the new metric is profit…