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I found this post to be informative. As a teacher that is trying to implement Performance Improvement Strategies in her classroom, instead of a business. I was able to modify each of these Evaluation Questions to fit the classroom!
Commented Jul 28, 2015 on Top 10 Questions to Evaluate a Learning Culture at The Performance Improvement Blog
Top 10 Questions to Evaluate a Learning Culture
In a discussion started by Camilla Keen on LinkedIn, she asks, “In order to find out and evaluate if a company has an effective learning culture, what would be your top ten questions?” I commented: Are leaders communicating the importance of learning (acquiring new knowledge, skills, and capabi...
I enjoyed this post about competition. In a school, students are competing against themselves and one another. Teachers and students are now competing against all the changes with testing and curriculum. Performance Improvement strategies help not only businesses, but schools as well!
Commented Jul 28, 2015 on Reprise: Learning to Compete at The Performance Improvement Blog
Reprise: Learning to Compete
The rate at which an organization learns may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. . . . If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. (Garvin & Edmondson, 2008) Every organization faces some kind of competition. Manufacturers compete for mar...
Nice post. I am currently looking at how Human Performance Improvement can be applied in a high school classroom, and thought that this post offered a good summary of HPI tactics.
Commented Jul 28, 2015 on Reprise: How to Create a Learning Culture in Organizations at The Performance Improvement Blog
Reprise: How to Create a Learning Culture in Organizations
Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post, she writes that workplace learning is: Structu...
As a teacher, I feel like "push" learning is definitely more prominent in schools. I love the idea of "pull" learning and offering many methods of learning for my students.
Commented Jul 28, 2015 on Lies About Learners and the Internet of Things at The Performance Improvement Blog
Lies About Learners and the Internet of Things
In a blog post for ATD provocatively titled “Lies About Learners”, Larry Israelite writes: Our current learning approach is outdated. Now is the time to reinvent it. The global business environment is changing rapidly; access to sophisticated, social, digital technologies is increasing; and the...
As someone that has sat through these types of employee training seminars, I completely agree with you that they are rarely very effective. There is no better training than experience!
Commented Jul 23, 2015 on Stop Relying on Training for Employee Learning at The Performance Improvement Blog
Stop Relying on Training for Employee Learning
Formal training continues to take up too much of organizational resources. Formal, event-based training (courses, workshops, seminars, MOOCs) has a place in corporate learning but only a small place and only for employee learning that can’t be achieved in other, more timely, less costly, and mor...
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