This month's ASTD Big Question is, again, a series of questions. Apparently one BIG question is not enough for ... result in a direct work product. For example, a knowledge worker may need to learn how to write a report more effectively but still may produce a report (work product) on time for the boss by working on the weekend. It would be great for the worker to learn to write more efficient reports but learning to do so is not a work product. The products the ... indicated, I just don't view what I have "to-do" as a work product in the same way as what I have "to-learn" and maybe that ...

To answer the question at ASTD's Learning Circuits Blog , I am going to try to stick to Tony's initial thought of specific questions and dive very deep into the technique I use when consulting for a needs assessment or evaluation. I use a technique I call the 360 Needs Assessment. This process involves asking questions at several levels within an organization. The idea is to separate the facts from the opinions. If I can triangulate information, I know that I have a ... possible for many reasons but can be extremely insightful. Please rate the product/service/attention provided ...

ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 San Antonio is over. After having had a little time to think and reflect, here’s my ... better, the frequent meals provided by ASTD were a nice bonus, and the sessions seemed better organized and of higher ... . Well done, ASTD. The sessions were, as they always are at events like these, hit or miss, but I generally enjoyed ... collaborative development tool by Rapid Intake . So impressed that I need to save my thoughts on what I saw of the product ... us to teach ourselves? Note (plea) to ASTD: if presenters plan to include significant group breakout activities ...

Administrivia The Chapter's President Elect shared some initiatives I'm personally looking forward to for next year. Here's a great opportunity for local ASTD Chapter members: The board's looking to conduct many affordable workshops next year. To pull this off, the chapter will naturally be looking for membership support to host meeting venues and speakers to host workshops next year. The upside: there will be plenty of opportunities to gain ... ? Mass production (the norm) --> Mass customization (is now possible) One example Wayne uses for ...

February 4, 2006 ASTD Releases New Data in Its 2005 State of the Industry Report - Learning Circuits As organizations face stronger global competition, business leaders recognize that employee learning and skills development is more important than ever to grow and sustain a competitive advantage. According to its 2005 State of the Industry Report, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) reports that U.S. organizations are investing more in employee ... , whatever) than the finished product is going to be. That's what people expect anyway--they see your prototype and ...

In this month's T&D Magazine published by ASTD , I have a number of quotes in the Need for Speed article by ... new products compliance training for Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, or international compliance regulations for companies ... teaming with Allison Rossett from San Diego State Univ. for an ASTD Featured Webcast. The details are below, if you ... special webcast for ASTD members. The webcast, based on the February T+D article "The Need for Speed" written by Michael ... approach. Title: Rapid Learning Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Time: 2:00 p.m. EST You can register if you are an ASTD ...

... drain from the number of baby boomers planning to retire soon. ASTD Study: Learning Programs Have High Yield Companies that invest in employee learning have higher productivity, revenue growth, and profit growth than companies that do ...

Tony O'Driscoll, Paula Ketter and I did a webcast for T+D - ASTD's publication today. Unfortunately, we ran into a few technical issues. For example, I was trying to demonstrate elements of my blog and found out that folks were not ... . But similar in nature. It's a question of what happens as production moves from being owned by the training organization to one where SMEs and learners are more responsible. Tony's examples were brief, but interesting: Wikis Product ... ) Today's PowerPoint Presentation ASTD homepage Webcast Archives T+D magazine website ...

... surmounts numerous hurdles, and ends up with Virtual Leader, a product you can buy today. Unlike most books on learning ... ? Virtual Apps Aerobic Learning Work as Video Game Oracle and Macromedia, Sitting in a Tree The Blogosphere ASTD ... 2 PlaNetwork LIVE ASTD 2004 Leftovers Googlism Worker Effectiveness Improvement, not KM Upcoming Events eLearning Effectiveness? Jays Talk at ASTD Mintzberg & Cooperider Lest ye forget ASTD International Conference & Exposition 2004 Knowledge Tips What is Workflow Learning? ASTD msg 1 of n Look out, its ...

... imposes structure on the production process and forces applicants to address the employer's questions in a fixed period ... services. tags: businesscasual , webtools , productivity Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 tags: businesscasual , training , elearning , astd ...

For IDs and non-IDs Alike. (Hint: "ID" = "Instructional Designer".) Below is a list. I asked for help recently from the community for recommendations of online training resources. I was helping out a colleague who was preparing a presentation about learning environments. I was surprised not to have been able to find much on the ASTD web ... . (Personal note: Give feedback to ASTD national.) What I really wanted were some online references that were more ... to improving productivity and performance in the workplace. There are membership plans you can buy into, but for ...

... how you balance commercial activity (e.g., vendors posting a link to their product) vs. being a comprehensive resource vs ... tricky is what do you do about having a page on Rapid eLearning that might list products that are rapid eLearning tools ... allowing links to products. It just invites too many problems. So, while it would be great to have a page that was the ... . Why isn't it happening elsewhere? Theoretically, ASTD's Learning Circuits or the eLearningGuild should do ...

... conferences I regularly attend - and no offense to the eLearningGuild, ASTD, etc. - because most conferences have these same ... cracker-barrel sessions that look at particular issues, e.g., how do you structure your eLearning production, centralized ... sure that I know how to make this happen for more attendees, but Beer Tasting at ASTD TechKnowledge , Boston, Beer - Bloggers - Learn.com and similar things at ASTD in Atlanta were definitely fun. Getting together with other experts over some beer was great. Having a really great Southern dinner at ASTD and talking about the implications of eLearning ...

ASTD's Big Question this month (March) is actually two questions and since I helped Tony Karrer tweak the ... randomly stopped and inspected products to find defects. If a defect was found the entire box or lot or whatever measure was used was scrapped and the production workers simply re-did that production run with, hopefully, better results. Then in ... determine if a machine was running in tolerance or trending toward non-tolerance. They didn't hold a product up to the light ... process and taught others how to create quality products through quality processes. They weren't the police any ...

The ASTD Big Question for January is "What are your Predictions for Learning in 2008?" First, I am going to ... Allen's 2nd e-Learning annual. Write another book and create some products useful to people as they struggle to make sense ... and then instructional designers acting more like instructional assemblers. Some type of corporate YouTube-esque product ... this is really related to the prediction above. Introduction of a highly popular "Second Life"-esque product focused ... Articulate's Engage product making interactive games available to instructional designers at all levels.

... features on news, career, eLearning 101, conferences, and (for ASTD members only) product reviews. LiNE ... /technology futurism, more. Zines Learning Circuits , ASTDs free zine on digital ... standards, and lots of other interesting things from Marcia Conner and Wayne Hodgins. ASTD ... Solutions ASTD -- generally broad but shallow. Gerrit Visser (Europe) HR Executive Work Index ... Learning T+D (formerly Training & Development -- ASTD CIO -- excellent ...

At the ASTD keynote by Patrick Lencioni - Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Quick search and I found some good notes on different web sites so I don't have to type so much. Here's a good one . He used an interesting thing in order to get questions - gave free copies of his book to people with questions. He got a lot of questions right away - not sure it works all that well with an audience of 5,000. The Five Dysfunctions of Teams are: Absence of Trust: Trust is the ... passionate debate about ideas. Instead, they resort to veiled discussions and guarded comments. Productive, ...

During my presentation last Thursday that was an introduction to eLearning 2.0 as part of an online event for the eLearningGuild, I mentioned a few common ways that I've seen eLearning 2.0 approaches used in corporate learning settings: Alongside Formal Learning Blog as writing tool Wiki as a collaborative learning tool Editable reference materials (Wiki) Internal / External Product information Process information Sales scenarios Frequently Asked ... sharing on wiki online reference for patient care using podcasts for our ASTD chapter to introduce upcoming ...

Dimension , Product Strategy & The Challenge of Global Marketing , Christoper Lorenz ... Time Capsule of Training and Learning from Big Dog Product Development Process from ... stuff of leading people, not of managing them or their work, that really affects productivity; its the hand-holding, the ... because a good interface is cheaper to implement, is more productive, is easier to maintain, has lower training ... their work, which was a combination of art and science, design and architecture, process and product, style ...

... and Development (ASTD) found that 45 percent of surveyed organizations only gauged trainees' reactions to courses ... care about this. They have a particular product/project in mind and they want you to get that done. As Karyn said in her ... spectrum. Do they care about the looks of the product/project? Many clients come in with expectations about what will ...

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Learning : eLearning Technology Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge ... challenging to do that successfully. I discussed a bit of these issues in First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions. Im ... 10 24% Product Information / Training 9 22% Other 8 20 ... Training Department Engineering (Product, Process, Quality) Constituents-grantees Product Developers Members of our ... productivity, not increased it. â?? Thinking for a Living Iâ??ve been on LinkedIn for several years. I never initiate a ...

Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. It could ... issues in First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions. I'm writing this post for both attendees of the session to have some ... Information 11 27% Online Reference / Glossary 10 24% Product Information ... - Access Knowledge Domains Contractors Work Groups Students Training Department Engineering (Product, Process, Quality) Constituents-grantees Product Developers Members of our Association Trainers Younger Employees ...

Shape eLearning 2.0 eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ASTD OC eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ISPI Los Angeles ... One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind Leading with an LMS - Harmful to Your Health (or Skipping ...

I ran across a link to an article on Learning Circuits - Rapid E-Learning Grows Up and I apologize, because I can't remember where I found this link. While the author, Joe Fournier, and I share some opinions, I think we differ a bit on where things are heading longer-term. Let me walk through this... Tony O'Driscoll, a key learning strategist for IBM, told an attentive crowd at ASTD Charlotte that the codified information base of the world is expected to double every 11 ... ) definitely agree on is that Rapid eLearning tools allow a significantly reduced learning curve and more rapid production ...

Came across this snippet from ASTD's T&D blog. T+D Blog: The Invasion of Gen Y A new Jobfox poll shows that Gen Y workers are perceived by recruiters as being the weakest performers among the four generations that now make up the U.S. workforce. Ouch! But, then again, hmmm... could it be the look of bored indifference? Or the incessant need to snatch that flippin' cell phone on the first ring--regardless of how long you make me and the ... ), getting Millenials into the workforce and engaging them as the responsible, productive professionals ...

Twitter started as an experiment for me. In addition to the buzz surrounding the growth of its user base, I got into it, too, because of conversation in one of the ASTD forums I frequent about how Twitter might be used as a learning support tool . As much as I am a fan of Twitter and the benefits I've derived from my contacts there, I'll admit the jury's still out on examples for robust uses of Twitter in a learning environment. But one thing's ... . TweetLater.com . As you get more into Twitter, you'll find this helpful in managing your own productivity ...

In Part 1 I introduced the catalyst for this series. Though it's primarily intended for a project I'm doing for my local ASTD chapter (Orange County), the series would certainly have benefit for you, or a friend who might be new to Twitter. Feel free to forward this series along. (Click the "Email This" link at the bottom of the article.) If you're ... their bio. For example, I found a lot of ASTDers by simply doing a keywords search on ASTD. But, don't stop there. You'll ... productivity helpers that help you keep visible to your followers while tending to your day job. Some apps. to look ...

... dont tell me its TrDev and ASTD. Is that all weve got? Lets get real... If supporting informal learning is the wave of ... , it was common understanding that the people and place you were going to truly learn about your product was your ... suite has long been find the person who is doing what you want to be doing and do what they do. Product designers, project managers, and others responsible for creation and production of products have made a habit of spending time with customers using their products. These are clearly learning activities and by most definitions theyd be classified ...

... time. BPM and workflow technologies have been able to achieve significant gains in productivity Metrics Recently ... , ASTD Josh Bersin What to measure: efficiency, effectiveness, ...