An increasing desire to incorporate social media in corporate learning has garnered lot of attention at recent conferences and in trade publications. Many early efforts have borrowed from consumer social media models such as Facebook and YouTube. Early adopters rushed to co-opt various social media look-alikes in closed networks behind the corporate firewall. Media 1… [Read more…]
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a full two weeks since I have returned from the scenic vistas of Laguna Niguel and the intellectual stimulation of the Fall CLO Symposium. As lovely as the scenery was, I will try to keep my focus on the intellectual pursuits. But allow me this one intrusion:… [Read more…]
A few years ago, I was at a technology conference and a young business owner of an up-and-coming tech solutions firm commented: Email is over! I only use Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to communicate with clients. In processing his perspective, my first reaction was that no way would this shift ever completely evolve. However, I… [Read more…]
In my last blog, I talked about how important true leader support is for the success of any business improvement endeavor. Business leaders, like any of us, respond well if they can clearly see ways to achieve their objectives better, easier, and faster. Thousands of books, articles and online resources constantly tell us the “best”… [Read more…]
Corporate learning has too long been dictated by old paradigms. Over the last decade, the focus has remained on saving cost and pushing knowledge to a global workforce through disparate learning events – courses. Today a course may be delivered as self-paced online learning (WBT) or instructor led via a virtual classroom or webinar, but… [Read more…]
In my last post, Pizza and SharePoint™—Branding and Design, I drew an analogy between presenting your best work to your customers without presenting your best selves to your employees in terms of the systems and sites developed for internal use. But why is it so hard to gain user acceptance and what sorts of things can… [Read more…]
Performance improvement—and particularly “continuous performance improvement”—is always at the forefront of business discussions. There are thousands of books, methods and “sure fire” approaches being touted as the answer. With the exception of a few standouts, few of them make any real difference. At Media 1, we’ve taken the position that true improvement happens when a… [Read more…]
Have you ever stopped watching a particular news broadcast because you were not a “fan” of the lead anchor? Or maybe because of the format? Or both? I caught one of my favorite news shows the other day, and surprisingly, I lost interest within a few minutes and turned off the television. Historically, this show… [Read more…]
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away… I used to work for one of the giant pizza chains. As a learning professional, I took it upon myself to understand what it was like to work in a pizza store. You don’t have to be in a store for too long before a… [Read more…]
In my previous blog post, Your New Role: Learning Content Curator, I underscored the need for corporate learning professionals to begin to let go of content creation and start nurturing a content curation mindset. According to global marketing strategy guru Rohit Bhargava, a Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best… [Read more…]
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November 11, 2011
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