Posts Tagged development
Talent Management
Posted by Robert Bacal in FREE!, human resources on October 2, 2009
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!
How to Make Training and Development a Power Agent for Change (For Managers)
Posted by Third Party in Advice For Trainers, Managing and Organizations, human resources on July 20, 2009
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?
Twitter Hashtags for training and development
Posted by trdev in Bacal's Twitter World on May 4, 2009
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, [...]
When the gardner is inept or uncommited, the tree dies. Online discussions.
Posted by Robert Bacal in Thought Jolts, Training & Technology on January 25, 2009
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 [...]
Informal Learning Thoughts
Posted by Robert Bacal in Training & Technology on January 22, 2009
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 [...]
Piagetian Stages, Cognitive Psychology, and Training
Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice on May 8, 2008
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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