Today's Learning Workplace

        Topic: Learning & Doing Breaking Down Barriers Between Learning and Doing (Rob’s Learning and Technology blog) Learning by Creating (Learnstreaming)   Articles for this Week: 50 Quotes About Failure (Learnstreaming)  Also 50 QuotesAboutLearning Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes (Harvard Business Review blog) Have Traditional Human Resource Practices Become Out of Date? […]

      Topic: Start Something (aka Beginnings) Ze Frank’s Invocation for Beginning (video, 3m, NOTE: includes a few curse words) Articles for this Week: Four Great TED Videos About Creativity (Educational Technology and Mobile Learning blog) Engineering Work-Life Integration (ELSUA blog) Culture Clashes (Human Resouces Executive Online via ASTD Buzz) Five Steps to Assess […]

          Topic: How to Get Your Creativity On Where Are Your Seeds of Creativity (Christopher Penn) John Cleese’s classic talk on How to be Creative (video, 40m) or if you’re pressed for time, here is an excerpt from Cleese’s talk where he discusses “the 5 conditions that you can arrange to […]

            Topic: Real-World Instructional Design Instructional design models and theories No time for design? Rapid instructional design for accelerated learning The future of instructional design – or my heart belongs to ADDIE   Articles for this Week: 10 Things to Remember About Social Learning (and the use of Social Media […]

        Topic: Asking Questions 7 Suggestions for Asking More Powerful Questions (Michael Hyatt blog) Book: Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition (affiliate link)   Articles for this Week: Mobile Learning: More Than Just Mobile + Learning (Social Learning) Strengths-Based Goal Setting (Gallup Management Journal via ASTD blog) […]

      Topic: Even more tech tools for learning! For this week’s podcast we each once again (and for the last time!)  picked another technology tool from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies list of Top 100 Technology Tools for Learning for 2011 (listen to us talk about our earlier picks on show […]

        Topic:  No topic for this week…we went outside and enjoyed the weather instead!   Articles for this Week: 5 Things Women Should Never Say When Negotiating (American Express OPEN) From Traditional Instructional Design to Instructional Design 2.0 (T&D journal, Jane Bozarth) TED, Known for Idea Talks, Releases Education Videos (Wired Campus) […]

      Topic: Giving Presentations What is the most important thing to consider when giving a presentation? (LinkedIn Learning, Education and Training group) Pecha Kucha Pecha Kucha wikipedia page Pecha Kucha night webpage, what Pecha Kucha night is all about,  find a PechaKucha night near you Similar to Pecha Kucha are Ignite events (Ignite […]

      Topic: More tech tools for learning! For this week’s podcast we each picked another technology tool from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies list of Top 100 Technology Tools for Learning for 2011 (listen to us talk about our first three picks on TLW podcast #75 ) Jing Jing download for […]

      Topic: Trusted? The 4 Pillars of Trust–Building Trust at Work (Workshifting blog) 6m video of Chris Brogan interviewing Charlie Green plus a blog post summarizing the 4 pillars of trust Chris Brogan is doing a series of 3 interviews/articles on building trust at work.  Previous post is Leadership Isn’t About Control–Building Trust […]

        Topic: The SME as Trainer? SMEs as Trainers – Great Idea or Potential Problem? Turning subject matter experts into trainers – Chief Learning Officer forum discussion How to convert the toughest SME Working with SMEs to develop training Conscious Competence Learning Model (Businessballs website) Articles for this Week: MIT’s New Free […]

Topic: End Goal: Learning or Performance? Performance Improvement: An alternative to training? Performance Goals vs Learning Goals: Are we learning or looking good? Learning Goals or Performance Goals? Is it the journey or the destination?     Articles for this Week: A few posts on Apple’s education event (iBook, iAuthor, iTunes U) Apple Education Event […]

  Topic: Learning from failure You Must Fail to Succeed–The Virtues of Intrinsic Failure (Kevin Jones blog)   Articles for this Week: Resources to Learn How to Use Twitter (Misadventures in Learning) Give the Ultimate Gift in 2012: Coaching (Bersin & Associates) Pros in Different Area Codes: How to Train a Remote Employee, infographic (Mindflash) […]

      Topic: Technology tools for learning For this week’s podcast we each picked a technology from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies list of Top 100 Technology Tools for Learning for 2011 Voicethread Storybird Diigo homepage Here are another 50 Tools that didn’t quite make the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 […]

  Topic: Embedding learning on the job On-the-job learning: Professional development that works Tips for structured OJT The manager as coach 7 steps to coaching your employees to success   Articles for this Week: 10 Predictions for 2012: The Top Trends in Talent Management and Recruiting (ere.net via ASTD blog) 5 Ways to Lose Clients […]

  Topic: Designing for Learning Transfer How to Increase Learning Transfer Can They Do It in the Real World? Designing for Transfer of Learning Designed for Learning – Transfer of Learning Theories and Implications     Articles for this Week: More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years – all driven by 10 […]

        Topic: Best  Companies for Leaders Fortune’s Top 25 Companies for Leaders (CNN Money) How Do Great Companies Groom Talent (CNN Money) The 20% Leadership Challenge (TrainingWreck)   Articles for this Week: Virtual Training: Are You Engaging or Boring? (Learning Solutions Magazine blog) Get Your Head Out of the CL-ASS-room: elearning is […]

          Topic: Feedback–It’s Great to Give AND Receive ‘Tis the Season to Deliver and Receive Feedback Effectively (Chief Learning Officer blog) Why Constructive Feedback Doesn’t Improve Employee Performance (Financial Post)   Articles for this Week: Employee Engagement Nearing All-Time Low (Gallup via ASTD blog) 5 Stages of Workplace Learning [revised] (Learning […]

          Topic: The Future of Learning? The Future of Learning (Chief Learning Officer) Understanding Informal and Social Learning (Center for Learning & performance Technologies) The Ubiquity of Informal Learning: Beyond the 70/20/10 Model (Ben Bett’s Stoatly Different blog)   Articles for this Week: Inventing the Collaborative Workspace (HBR blog) Reverse Mentoring […]

          Topic: Creating a Collaborative Environment 3 Secrets to Creating Your Desired Collaborative Environment (Leadership Solutions) Creating the Collaborative Environment (The Revolutionary Assistant) The Impact of Ego on Collaboration (Blanchard International) Building a Collaborative Culture (Social Business Expert blog)   Articles for this Week: Six Tips for Enhancing Workplace Talent (Business […]