E-learning seems to be growing more complicated lately. Whether the field is expanding, or I am just listening better, I find there are many acronyms and terms (LCMS, LMS, SCORM are some the most frequent) that I can’t actually define.
One primary goal of this blog is to help you keep up with the changing landscape of the workplace learning and performance profession. E-learning is a huge part of that change. (E-learning is also a significant component in 4 knowledge items in the CPLP Knowledge Exam Content Outline.) (more…)
In an article published on the Harvard Business site last Friday, Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd suggested that we will soon be working in a 5-generation workforce. Change is already galloping ahead of us; are we going into overdrive?
It seems to me that many organizations are still struggling to cope with 4 generations in the workplace. I work in a small business that employs 4 generations – we are mostly Boomers and Gen-X, however, our oldest was (more…)
ASTD's Talent Management Model
I noticed an article in the May 2009 T+D by Andrew Paradise which defined Talent Management. Talent Management is one of the 9 Areas of Expertise (AoE) in ASTD’s Learning & Performance Competency model. Since I’m reading the May issue of T+D in August, I suspect that a few of my readers might also have missed this information. For those of you who haven’t seen that definition yet, here it is: (more…)
When was the last time you went to the library to do research? There was a time when you had to go to the library to access business books, journals, and even the catalogs of material contained in those publications.
Have you ever searched on a topic in Google, found an abstract that looked like exactly what you wanted, only to find out the full article would cost you $10 just to view?
Moving all of that information from the library to the Internet was only a matter of time, with the emergence of digital everything over the last 20 years. But access to all that information has been restricted to academic institutions and paying organizations. ASTD has removed that barrier for its members, by including EBSCOhost as a part of its membership benefits.
There are a couple of other research resources worth mentioning as well. Follow me, and we’ll take a brief tour of the ASTD Knowledge Center. (more…)
What does an interview really tell you about a potential employee? If that person interviews well, are they going to bring the skill set you want? How do you really know?
A manager I know needed to hire someone who could master MSExcel. He designed a test consisting of a simple set of actions to be carried out in Excel. One task was to Freeze Panes. No one tested actually knew how to do that. Only one person looked it up in the Help index. (more…)
Training and Development (T&D) has been a part of human culture from the beginning of civilization. By sharing our discoveries with one another, applying our learning is a significant hallmark of the human species. Guild apprenticeships, Greek philosophy, the scientific method and military discipline are all examples of early T&D programs.
The Industrial Revolution created a need for more formal T&D strategies. In 1906, the National Society for Promotion of Industrial Education formed. Just a few years later, in 1913, the first cars rolled off the assembly line at Ford. Through the 1920s, unions set up the first training programs for employees, while quality control became an important topic of conversation for all industry.