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Learning Innovation Part III: How to Ask Great Questions
Everyone wants to be more innovative in their work, and in today’s business world, being innovation is increasingly becoming something that is demanded of everyone, including learning professionals. In the first two articles of this series I looked at what happens when we don’t ask questions, as well as what gets in the way of […]
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Learning Innovation Part II: The Importance of Questions
In the first article on this series about innovation, I presented a simple definition for innovation from author Stephen Di Biase and the serious consequences that can result when we fail to ask the right questions at the right time, including the sinking of the Titanic and the Challenger space shuttle explosion. As you can […]
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Summer Jobs: Training for the Future, Part 3
To cap off our three part series on summer jobs, we asked four adults at different stages in their careers to reflect on their best and worst summer jobs and to explain how these jobs did or did not train them for their current careers. Below are just a few highlights.
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Learning Innovation Part I: Setting the Stage
As learning professionals, you are already all too familiar with the pressure you feel to be increasingly innovative in your work. But have you ever stepped back to think about what innovation really is, and what you can do to boost your own innovation? Many people consider innovation to be synonymous with creativity. While being […]
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Summer Jobs: Training for the Future, Part 2
In this post, the second of three posts on the topic of training and summer jobs, we explore why organizations should train summer workers and consider some of the short- and long-term returns on investment.
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Project Management for Learning Professionals: The Charter
Each learning initiative, program, course, or module developed in your company’s learning department should be thought of a discreet project that needs to be well-managed in order to achieve the desired outcomes. The place to start when a new learning project comes your way is with a document called a Project Charter. Getting this right […]
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The Scientific Method in Learning Initiatives, Part II
In the first part of this series, I made a very bold statement: To the extent that you aren’t using the scientific method as part of your learning work, you’re missing out on the true power of learning to have profound impacts on business results. Using the scientific method in your efforts to design and […]
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The Scientific Method in Learning Initiatives, Part I
Based on the title of this article, you may well be wondering what in the world the scientific method has to do with your learning efforts. I boldly assert that the scientific method has everything to do with your learning initiatives. In fact, to the extent that you aren’t using the scientific method as part […]
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Summer Jobs: Training for the Future, Part 1
In this post, the first of three on the topic of training and summer jobs, we explore some of the short- and long-term benefits of summer jobs and how to choose one with the greatest training benefits.
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Knowledge Transfer in a Contingent Workforce
As discussed in our recently published white paper, Measuring the Impact of Contingent Workers, contingent workers constitute an ever-growing portion of the workforce. While large numbers of contingent workers can place unanticipated strains on an organization, they also bring new resources into an organization, albeit ones that can be difficult to capture. One notable gain […]
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Blended Learning: When and How to Use it
In today’s increasingly digital world, it’s all too easy to just assume that eLearning is always the way to go. But it’s worth remembering that the choice you face isn’t a black-and-white, either/or choice between eLearning and traditional learning. They can be mixed together as well, which is called blended learning. And sometimes that’s the […]
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The ROI of Learning Part 5: The True Costs of Learning
In my last article I went over some actual examples of how to calculate both a benefit/cost ratio and an ROI for a learning initiative that was focused on boosting retention (reducing turnover). I mentioned in that article that it’s important to make sure you cover your bases when determining the cost of learning. In […]
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