What Would You Do to Support New Managers? I was just reminded of the big question while cruising ... concern that there hasn't been much discussion about this month's question. So, I'll add some fuel for thought! I'm not sure I totally understand the question. It looks like some of us are answering the question by discussing how much training we give to management/leadership programs and, as a trainig department, how we support the middle manager layer. For the sake of discussion, and to follow Governor Schwarzenegger's sentiment, I'll state the following: MANAGERS ...

This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and expertise if you have a question or a concern for which you need input and/or advice. The basic question is " If you need input from people, where's the best place to ask?" But, then the question breaks into sub-questions. -How to reach out and find expertise -How to use Social Media to Find Answers to Questions -How to Learn through Conversation And then ... social network for Learning Management System questions and, perhaps another, for a question about learning strategies ...

This month's ASTD Big Question is, again, a series of questions. Apparently one BIG question is not enough for the learning and development community. We aim to exceed expectations. If you have a to-learn list and are willing to ... -learn list includes: More about 3D Worlds (Wandering) Capabilities of Unity 3D (Targeted) Better time management ... impact something like a Learning Management System in a Workplace or Educational setting? Interesting but most LMSs have ... managers so the emplopyee can have necessary skills. Both are nice but not as powerful, compelling or satifying as a ...

This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. So the question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools? Where do you ... your "To Learn List" look like? Holding myself back, I will calmly answer the question as per Tony's request to not ... . 57.588 Learning Management System Administration requires students to develop and deploy an actual course using ...

... stakeholders (usually management) know what is going on in the trenches (hint, they rarely do).I use similar questions but not ... 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 ...

This is the new home of the master list of Big Questions: May 2008 - Learning Design Differences for Digital Natives? April 2008 - Do Better? March 2008 - Scope of Learning Responsibility? February 2008 - Instructional Design - If? When? How much? January 2008 - Predictions for Learning in 2008? December 2007 - What Did You Learn about ... -the-Shelf Vendors - What Should the Do? March 2007 : Supporting New Managers? February 2007 : What Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past ...

This is the new home of the master list of Big Questions: May 2008 - Learning Design Differences for Digital Natives? April 2008 - Do Better? March 2008 - Scope of Learning Responsibility? February 2008 - Instructional Design - If? When? How much? January 2008 - Predictions for Learning in 2008? December 2007 - What Did You Learn about ... -the-Shelf Vendors - What Should the Do? March 2007 : Supporting New Managers? February 2007 : What Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past ...

... ill-advised "teamwork" sessions when the manager gets back to the office. "Oh no - the boss has been to another management training session. I wonder if I have enough vacation days...." And I'll admit to having that reaction when I first read the question....hence my initial tactic..... Storytelling In my response to the Big Question , I told a story about my favorite manager. I was secretly hoping that someone would "get it", connect some of the dots, and ... Alarm bells go off when I hear someone say "Our company has this management training program..." Usually this ...

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 ... 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 Would You Do to Support New Managers? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on ...

I do a variant of this exercise 3-4 times per year. This iteration of the Big Question allows me to think about past, present, and future on a more professional and public level. What will I remember most about 2006? 1) Finally bringing up the last department on the Electronic Medical Record. 5 years of paper to computer conversions in 2 ... and NOT another health care vendor conference. As a result, I managed to escape my isolation from the eLearning industry ... -on. Change management. Not just among the students, but among our fellow professionals. As I've watched ...

The February Big Question goes to the root of what The Big Question is all about. It is a topic that has bothered ... managers in my organization?" These questions offered a fantastic opportunity for discussion and understanding of the ... month, The Big Question is... What Questions Should We Be Asking? Please answer this question by posting to your ... Blogs: The form for February's Big Question has been closed. If you have a post in response to the February Big ... . Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The big question for February: what questions should we be asking? Tony ...

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring ... should address the Big Question in a more measured way than in last week's rant, so here goes ... The answer to the question, of course, is that it depends on what you are trying to create. If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're after ... , manage all your own assets, and upload the finished product when it's done. Experience shows that, for large projects involving teams of specialists (project managers, instructional designers, graphics people, subject experts, testers, ...

... with a Dell XPS, the iMac simply ROCKS! Stay tuned for my response to Part II and III of THE BIG QUESTION ... What will you remember most about 2006? I've been planning my year in review post and just noticed THE BIG QUESTION .  Cool! 2006 has been a GREAT year!  I have several events to be remembered but most importantly 2006 will be remembered as the year of The Learning Triad:  blogs, wikis, and RSS.  Since starting the Corporate ... at DevCon2006 I rcv the call from management.  Never a better day for me.  I love change.  It  ...

What are the biggest challenges for you/us as head into 2007? Without a doubt, heading into 2007 learning industry practitioners need to focus on change management in their organizations. All of the tools of Web2.0 applied in Learning2.0 Ecosystems will fail if we do not SHOW the benefit to our clients/customers. This may be stretching it a bit, however I believe in many cases we are challenged with reinventing ourselves or becoming extinct. As many savvy content experts begin realizing that they don't have to "wait in the training department's cue of projects". We ...

My response to March's Big Question: When I think about managers (new to managing or new to managing me), I think ... . Inspired by my experience with him, this is the list of questions I ask myself whenever I find myself managing ... all of the managers I've had, Rick was the best at this form of communication. Keep asking yourself these 4 questions ... work for a manager who has experience in the field where they are managing. I tend not to stay long with managers who ... employees. Rick was a large man. Watching him go toe to toe with the management of some large touring companies when ...

... month's big questions is... So, this month, The Big Question is... Where to Work? Please answer this question by ... . We have created a del.icio.us tag for The Big Question. Please feel free to bookmark your participating post, your comment rss for your post, other web-based resources you feel relate to the June 2007 Big Question to del.icio.us using ... This question was sent to me a few weeks ago and I think it's great. The basic question is what are the best places ... make sense of this? How does this differ for different roles such as Manager, Instructional Designer, Trainer ...

... month's big questions is... So, this month, The Big Question is... Where to Work? Please answer this question by ... . We have created a del.icio.us tag for The Big Question. Please feel free to bookmark your participating post, your comment rss for your post, other web-based resources you feel relate to the June 2007 Big Question to del.icio.us ... This question was sent to me a few weeks ago and I think it's great. The basic question is what are the best places ... make sense of this? How does this differ for different roles such as Manager, Instructional Designer, Trainer ...

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 ... makes all of the O'Reilly books fully searchable). One of the most important questions is: What's the added value ... existed) at the store level so that store managers could identify areas where they needed work. Provided a variety ...

This month's Big Question - What Questions Should We be Asking? - Dave Lee just told us that there are 102 Questions . The original genesis of this question was a combination of my continual desire for Better Questions for Learning ... that I wanted to discuss with people at the next conference or in the next big question. See things that people really were finding as a challenge. Instead, I feel like I'm seeing a lot of philosophical, big, narly questions that I have no ... future Big Question. I'd likely get lots of great ideas and discussion. And the discussion is not just theoretical ...

In the Learning Circuits Blog, the big question for October is "I'm interested in a career in e-learning. What should I do first?" My first recommendation would be to decide where it is that you see yourself fitting into the e-learning landscape - as a manager, a consultant, a salesperson for a vendor, a designer, a developer, or a moderator/instructor? You also need to be clear whether you see yourself working primarily in education or in workplace learning, as there are considerable differences in the approaches that each of these sectors adopts when it comes to ...

... spice up" your e-learning. Take a few minutes and browse the content. Clark Aldrich's blog entry for the big question ... This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we are supposed to consider both good and bad examples as well as give some thoughts on why the example should get some attention. I've decided to look at several different types of "e-learning." Traditional Here is some learning sponsored by Environmental Protection Agency. It ... focused. They are not really exciting or very interactive. Here is an example called Principles of Watershed Management ...

November's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog has been posted. The question this month is: Are ISD ... one of the most important questions facing us today. If you look at the shift between eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 - and ... . Instead, I think of our industry as being involved in the convergence of management consulting, human performance ... Make the Worst Learners? ) So, back to the question - are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant? My answer is a definite: Yes, but ... big market research studies may fall prey to just putting it out there and trying to sell it. We have to adapt to ...

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 ...

The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as ... major point of The Big Question) - does the learning professional have a part to play  in bottom-up learning, and if so ... (our managers, our 'customers', our learners) and what do we personally feel committed to achieving? I don't regard this question as just a topical response to the increased interest in informal learning - it's an issue that has been ... primary responsibility for an employee's training and development - the employee themselves, their manager or ...

Examples! ASTD Big Question for June This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we ... Aldrichs blog entry for the big question has a great list of games and simulations that you need to check out ... called Principles of Watershed Management . You can see an entire list of courses at the Introductory Page . Here is one ... Reminder: Upcoming Webinar Questions about Second Life Who is in Charge? Meeting the Guys from Unity 3D ... Thoughts on Innovation and Technology... Some Questions and Answers Not to Cause Trouble But...

... month's big question - What Would You Do to Support New Managers? - Supporting New Managers With Informal Learning - good stuff. Worth taking a look at. While I'm on it - one of the most important aspects of helping managers transition is to effectively support and coach them over time. The question is always how do they get that coaching support ... manager with regular on-going support. In this case, new managers, I would certainly target their managers with regular ... conference calls with fellow new managers to discuss issues?

Back in March 2007, in response to that month's Big Question, I told a story about one of my favorite bosses - Rick Yeatman - and the things he did that made him a great manager. I received an e-mail from him today thanking me for the post. Apparently, a friend of his had found this blog, read the post and notified him. He found my work e-mail and dropped me a line. He's happily working at the Savannah College of Art and Design - where he doesn't have to fight with the football team for money. Such is the power of Web 2.0 technologies. And Rick - you don't have to thank me for ...

Dave Lee just posted on LCB - I'm a little verklempt! - where he points out that this month's big question - March Big Question: Supporting New Managers? - didn't get as many posts as in the past few months. He wonders what's the cause ... on these, feel free to contribute to: March Big Question: Supporting New Managers? ... question was not of interest. Wow, this is a surprise to me. This question really spawns from what I thought was a great question at a session with Harold and Jay Cross. Someone asked how informal learning might apply to new managers.

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 ...