Posts Tagged ‘Learning & Performance’

Talking about People

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

A friend recently said, “People are the machines of the global knowledge economy.” It sounds cold, calling people machines. His words reminded me how we speak from the framework of our experience.

Any discussion of changing times inevitably discusses our progress from agriculture to industrialism to whatever it is that we are experiencing today. We struggle to define this change, and to find labels that encompass the larger-than-life experiences of today’s society. (more…)

Social Learning: More than Collaboration

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

This morning, I attended Bellevue University’s Human Capital Lab quarterly colloquium, where Sue Todd, President and CEO, Corporate University Xchange, spoke about Social Learning. She offered some tremendous insight into how leading companies are fostering a collaborative environment for their people, and embedding learning in execution.

 I found myself sitting between an industrial engineer, and a measure & evaluation analyst. I’m sure you can imagine the level of conversation. Words like data points, optimization, quantitative analysis were flying back and forth. This quick view into their world was fascinating. I was hard-pressed to keep up with the content of their discussion, however, the context was well within my grasp. As I listened, I noted a couple of themes, and finally called attention to them, connecting what I was hearing with what I do understand about performance and execution. (more…)

5 Generations in the Workplace?

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

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…)

Defining Talent Management

Monday, August 31st, 2009
ASTD's Talent Management Model

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…)