Posts Tagged development

Stories: How They Limit Us. How They Help Us Learn (Discussion)

About 6 years ago I started work on a book manuscript about the power of the stories we tell, both in terms of how they limit us, and how they can be used to help us learn. My interest at that time had to do with PERSONAL stories and how they embody our beliefs about [...]

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Talent Management

The success of the enterprise depends upon many factors. Chief among them is the ability of the workforce to achieve corporate goals. Fully evolved employee performance management goes well beyond an annual appraisal process, combining tools and methodologies that focus employee behavior on specific, mission-critical business needs. Performance management involves employees in their own development and the development of the enterprise, creating a well-prepared workforce invested in advancing the organization. Request Free!

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How to Make Training and Development a Power Agent for Change (For Managers)

How to Make Training and Development a Power Agent for Change
By Jo Ann Kirby
Does this sound familiar? With high expectations, you sent your employees or yourself to a training or personal development program. Six weeks later you’re not sure if it was worth the investment. What went wrong?

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Twitter Hashtags for training and development

First a quick introduction. I’m Pat Stark, and I do some collaborative work with Robert Bacal on the web. You’ll see me posting here and there, particularly when Robert is away or otherwise engaged. Robert asked me to do some work on using a hashtag so people interested in training and development, and using twitter, [...]

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When the gardner is inept or uncommited, the tree dies. Online discussions.

Once it was possible to set up discussion lists (or similar forums) that would, eventually, and essentially become self-sustaining, and fairly self regulating. Many such professional groups (which were for sharing and learning) emerged and ran successfully for a number of years. HRNET, for example ran successfully without almost any leadership or tending. Others, also.
But [...]

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Informal Learning Thoughts

There have been attempts to make “informal learning” a new buzzword in the training world, and while there’s some obvious sense in looking at how learning “happens” in informal situations (since most of our lives are “informal”), there probably isn’t much new in the term. That said, it probably is worthwhile for trainers to put [...]

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What kind of “trainers” seek to destroy over 10,000 pages of valuable message posts? TRDEV owners!

It truly boggles the mind. The owners of the trdev discussion list have already removed the archives for the list which contain over 10,000 posts contributed over many years, and containing tons of valuable links, information and ideas for those involved with training and development.
I chronicled the abject stupidity of these owners when the list [...]

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Piagetian Stages, Cognitive Psychology, and Training

Piaget suggested there are four stages of development, rigid in sequence (since questioned), and hierarchical, moving from sensory through to abstract processes. Piaget suggested that what can be learned and applied is restricted…that is until the child is at the right level, certain tasks cannot be learned or  performed, cognitively.
Piagetians never looked beyond the approximate [...]

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