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…)