Organizational Learning and Development

The way the workplace is constructed—physically, virtually, and managerially—can have a critical impact on employee productivity, passion, and innovation.

With such a focus on instruction, we've forgotten about Design. Or perhaps never even learned what Design is. Let's put the design back into instructional des

Every organization has “can’t do” people in it. Their first words are no, can’t, or won’t. Successful leaders change can’t to can. Real influence: Coercion creates conformity; influence transforms....

So, several conversations recently are coming together: - Judy Unrein's post on Mike Monteiro's How Designers Destroyed the World talk, and her discussion about how designers can't be just be order...

How do people with an incredible amount of talent become so skilled at what they do? That's the question I've been seeking an answer to over the course of the

Tweet When I was a young professor of instructional design and technology at San Diego State University, students often sought advice on how to make decisions about outcomes and strategies. At that...

We have been talking a lot about iPads (by iPads we also imply other ‘tablets’) on our blog for the past couple of weeks. And it’s for a reason. We

The next big disruption in lifelong learning will be by design. We are innately trained and poised to have a global impact on how other people can survive and t

Organisations often plan learning carefully around needs, provide formal interventions and then look at how well the learning is applied. But that's not the only model: sometimes i'm curious, i rea...

Does eLearning kill creativity? Bring on the eLearning revolution! What do you believe about open-source learning? What eLearning developers can learn from kids? Would you teach at the 100,000 student classroom?

Business management magazine, blogs, case studies, articles, books, and webinars from Harvard Business Review, addressing today's topics and challenges in business management.

My colleague, Clark Quinn, recently wrote a blog post, Yes, you do have to change, in which he explained how he felt that “the elearning industry, and the broader learning industry, is severely und...

Work isn't what it used to be, which means training should have changed too, but has it? In this paper from learning expert, Harold Jarche, we learn what the le