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 ... minority opinion. So, I first ask questions of the stakeholders: Why do you think this is a problem? Have you every tried to ... stakeholders (usually management) know what is going on in the trenches (hint, they rarely do).I use similar questions but ...

... yet related. I've recieved a lot of feedback possitive and negative regarding my response to the February BIG QUESTION ... great next BIG QUESTION. ... While the workweek is for surfing the Learning feeds, I enjoy catching up on my DESIGN and MARKETING folders on the weekends. This is sad because MOST of what I do IS design and marketing. (Remember, much of marketing is getting people to "know" about a product and service...i.e. Learning) I think its mostly because I just can't handle another ...

... month's big question - a few days late. This month's big question actually was a question asked by an attendee at Jay ... needed to consider, and how to balance what approaches were taken. So, this month, The Big Question is... What ... New Managers Up to Speed Karyn Romeis Karyn's blog March's Big Question: What would you do to support new managers ... Connections Supporting New Managers With Informal Learning Clark Quinn Learnlets LCBlog's big question of the ... to help people transition into management roles throughout the organization (customer service, sales, operations, ...

April Big Question - Content Vendor Value : eLearning Technology ... jump on this months Big Question from LCB - ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do? Ill be curious to see what kinds of responses come out around this topic. Theres really a lot at stake in this question in that it goes far ...   0 comments links to April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Permalink: April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Bookmark this page ...

... month's Big Question from LCB - ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do? I'll be curious to see what kinds of responses come out around this topic. There's really a lot at stake in this question in that it goes far beyond the question. The reality is that all providers of content are competing in a flat world, with easy access to virtually ... compete with each person's ability to find information via a Google search or through access to a service like Safari (which makes all of the O'Reilly books fully searchable). One of the most important questions is: What's the added ...

... pretty quickly when you start asking questions about "What do you expect people to do differently after this ... talking software projects - I'm also including customer service initiatives, new sales procedures, etc. OK, I really haven't answered the question yet....... I WANT to build quality training. By "quality", I mean effective. Something ...

Over on LCB , The Big Question for October has been posted: Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? This is an interesting question and it's quite timely given recent occurrences. Brandon Hall Closes Free Yahoo Discussion ... to the LCB Big Question. Post a challenge you are facing. If you don't find value, then let me know - because I will be ... discussion groups and BH is starting an eventually paid social networking service. This sparked heated response from people who ... , Corporate eLearning Development - Example - Is Your eLearning Broken? Okay, so to me this is a timely question, but ...

The Big Question is a new monthly feature on Learning Circuits Blog. We want everyone in the LCB community to ... community. For info on how it will work, please see the Sidebar. The Big Question for October is: Should ... great-great-great-great grandfather write a novel? Tony Karrer - eLearning Technology - LCB's Big Question - Should ... - Half an Hour - Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? Harold Jarche - The Big Question Bill Bruck ... ? Barry Sampson Learn Me Happy The Learning Circuits Blog: The Big Question for October: Should All ...

... services groups inside organizations. So, this month, The Big Question is... ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What ... now? Participating Blogs: The Big Question for April has been closed. If you'd still like to submit your post to the April Big Question, please contact the Blogmeister by using the Dear Blogmeister form found at the link at the top ... The FPG Notepad April's Big Question Claudia Escribano LifeLongLearningLab Thinking about BIG Questions Guy W Wallace The ...

The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as ... can provide an infrastructure which will support bottom-up learning. The question then arises (and this may be the major point of The Big Question) - does the learning professional have a part to play  in bottom-up learning, and if so ... this question as just a topical response to the increased interest in informal learning - it's an issue that has been ... training department acting as a support service. Now many organisations see this as a shared responsibility, with ...

Over the weekend, I heard from Dave Lee that the Learning Circuits Blog - home of the monthly big question - had been ... , because The Big Question has been such a great success resulting in a large number of links to and from LCB we are a ... the past two years. We'll be back up and running with March's Big Question - "Do you really exist if Google says you don't?" as soon as we can. Dave Lee your exasperated blogmeister As the person who originated idea of The Big Question - I ... . I'm not sure what we are going to do with this month's big question. We'll likely wait a few days and see if ...

Clippings The LCB BIG Question (December 2006) 14-Dec-2006 06:52:03 Jim Blehsaw Managing the Professional Services ... It's the beginning of another month! Time for another The Big Question . November's Question got passions raging ... The Big Questions being tough, so here's a softball, or should I say SNOWBALL, for you. The Big Question for ... coming years. The Big Question Process You can find more details over in the sidebar, but simply answer these ... The Big Question logo to your post would be a perfect early Christmas present for Tony and I. Once you've entered ...

I have a few new aspects of "The Big Question" to announce. Both are designed to bring everyone in the greater LCB community a bit closer to each other and to enhance the conversation. Capturing the Big Conversation Through the ... postings regarding The Big Question. To let you in on the secret behind this list here's what I did: Captured the ... is simply a repeat of The Big Question - Should Every Learning Professional be Blogging? Whether you've posted to ... leaned on MySyndicaat's support service because I could only generate the first comment for each post) Giovanni ...

... when I saw the listing you see on the left here. 25,173! That's way cool. Obviously, The Big Question had the impact ... of you participated in The Big Follow-up Question. On top of that just nosing around Tony and I uncovered several more posts and references to The Big Question that had not been reported back to LCB. That's at least 38 people who ... to the mini quiz. See the final results in the sidebar. The Big Question definitely says something about the power ... participation and reaction to The Big Question . But I could use the help of those who participated by posting a response ...

... at the level that helps us apply it. I would also suggest that each of these items suggest possible great questions for this month's Big Question - What Questions Should We be Asking? Just add "How can I/we ..." in front, so for ... other means. Make outside connections easy. Funding for information and research services, conference attendance, guest ... fantastic questions by looking at particular common audience segments, e.g., new managers, distribute sales force, ...

Learning Circuits has posted its Big Question of the Month for January : "What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?" Thus, today's links will focus on that theme. . . Exploring the Definition of "Rapid e-Learning" - The eLearning Guild Does the term refer to A) fast, and perhaps cheap, development of e-Learning applications, or B) methods that increase the speed at which people learn, or C) technologies that speed up the connection between SMEs and learners, or D) services that enable organizations to add ...

... a part of The Big Question , I've been trying out a few of the new database/forms tools. I took a look at all the ... . I've also used Zoho Creator to create a form for submission of possible future The Big Question questions and a ... services going belly up, and no more Comcast accidentally wiping out my FTP content. If you have a question that isn't ... defunct and their services have been on again, off again at best. Feedblitz has stepped in with Bloglet's ...

A few weeks ago, I posted a summary around the November LCB Big Question "Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?": eLearning Technology: Significant Work Needed to Help Instructional Designers Some interesting thoughts in the comments. One thing that just struck me was a comment by Mark Oehlert that suggested we re-engineer the way professors teach ISD. In thinking about that comment, a few ... to all sorts of new services, adoption was likely to now start with Consumers and Prosumers and then migrate ...

The Big Question is back... December Big Question - What did you learn about learning? I'm going after this just a little bit different. I wanted to go back and figure out what things really struck me during 2007.... So I first went back to what I wrote about last year: Some of the more specific memories from 2006: I ... were they easy to use. It's all pure service. And this experience kept coming all during the year with Wikis, and more ... - organizational adoption is going to lag: Web 2.0 - Consumer vs. Enterprise Use. Companies are going to have a big ...

Lately there has been some talk about what exactly instructional designers do and what value they add to the process. Brent Schlenker in his response to the ASTD Big Question asks , Well, I think the biggest question is STILL, "Why US ... should be done...who should create it...and how should others consume it? Maybe the question is "Do we still add value to ... , Simulations work better than traditional formal learning programs? To his question I answered in the comment:The ... . This is true for compliance training, customer service, engineering, and even, I would submit, problem-solving. As ...

... locating your friends and now proximity dating.    One of the big questions is who will dominate location ... about yourself and your interests on a related online service. Highlights from Dawson's article about trends ...

... most recent LCB Big Question - Supporting New Managers? Some authors link to the original post, some don't. Some use ... I received some great questions from Christy Tucker in reference to my recent post Types of Blog Discussions I ... understand your readers better, as they say it will? And you know I love good questions ( Continuing Thoughts on Questions , What Questions Should We be Asking? , Better Questions for Learning Professionals )... So, thanks Christy. Your question on MyBlogLog and Explode is somewhat challenging to answer because I'm using those tools and coComment ...

Happy Holidays from Enspire Learning Things That Light Up My Life I'm a Gamer 3.0! The Big Question ... company offerings. A big explosion in the last 2 years. In the 90s there were one or two ways to do e-Learning: CDRoms ... different content formats Emerging e-Learning Services: 24 different services e-Learning Timeline: 1920s teaching ... . Understanding e-Learning: The Restaurant Analogy Restaurant Dining Room + ordering service + food prep + delivery service = Dining Experience Learning and environment technologies + requirements gathering + preparation of ...

I said in this post to see how I did for the year. Shortly, I'll be responding to this month's Big Question with my ... opportunities to create front-end tools? I am a big believer in the ability of web sites to provide simple forms that a ... ), action planning solutions (large retailer), marketing support tools (large financial services). These are the most ... things because they still have the great potential to make a big difference for learners. Find Lots of Examples of ... LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS? I somewhat got this wrong as the big LMS vendors seem to now refer to themselves ...

... blog posts related to the most recent LCB Big Question - Supporting New Managers? Some authors link to the original ... Technology I received some great questions from Christy Tucker in reference to my ... MyBlogLog really does help you understand your readers better, as they say it will? And you know I love good questions ( Continuing Thoughts on Questions , What Questions Should We be Asking? , Better Questions for Learning Professionals )... So, thanks Christy. Your question on MyBlogLog and Explode is somewhat challenging to answer because ...

Value from LinkedIn Big Question is Back Semantic Web Applications - Mundane or ... workforce. Another question, how is it possible that there can be a successful business model around tools you can get ... downplaying of Firefly on the Mzinga site. Based on Tonys post and other users I have talked too, I have to question the ... Sales. Tammy is still running LMS development; Mike is still running services. Hopefully this clarifies things a bit. I ... Exchange which we OEMd to some big enterprise players. In 2000, we added NLQ capability to this. Unfortunately, we ...