A great summary of the need for approaches to learning to change. Positions the need and opportunity for workplace learning and 70:20:10 and demonstrates the need for a strategic approach.
Performance (and capability) are outcomes and a range of factors contribute to building and sustaining them.
Here is the link to part two of the article, which includes a further link to download the full white paper:
Personal values test that will help you create a list of top five core values. What do you value most in your life? Discover your personal values with this free test.
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A free online tool to help define or review your personal values.
There’s a lot of conversation lately about working out loud, particularly the benefits it brings to the individual worker. But selling the idea of sharing to organization leaders can be another matter. Narrating work offers myriad benefits to organizations, from better locating talent and finding tacit knowledge to increasing efficiencies to improving communication. But organizations married to more traditional knowledge management processes may have trouble seeing past those.
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Jane Bozarth explores the practice of showing your work, which is otherwise referred to as Working Out Loud (WOL)
As business pressures only increase, organizations need to help develop workers’ human capabilities—curiosity, imagination, creativity, empathy, and courage—and encourage their application across all levels and departments.
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An exploration of the human capabilities (curiosity, empathy, imagination, creativity, courage) that are needed more than ever, if organisations are to navigate uncertainty and complexity.
Includes examples of how behaviours can be encouraged and reinforces the leader's role in modeling and removing barriers to developing/applying behaviours.
'Capabilities can drive business performance and help them keep finding and focusing on the opportunities embedded in weathering the present. Individuals need capabilities more than ever, too. By tapping into their capabilities, workers can better handle the unexpected requirements, new tools, and unique delivery conditions hitting them every day. More broadly, capabilities help workers actually be empowered, more able to notice and understand change, and more confident about creating new approaches and tools when old ones are no longer relevant'.
The Wholehearted Inventory instrument assesses your strengths and opportunities for growth. We spent several years building, testing, and validating the Wholehearted Inventory. You’ll see that the ten subscales align with the ten guideposts.
'Capita has collaborated with Professor Lynda Gratton, Hotspots Movement and BritainThinks, to look at how the world of work is changing.
Our report calls for honest dialogue and coordinated action by businesses and policy makers to support employees in the transition to a more automated world. Through engaging directly with people across the UK, whose jobs have already changed due to automation – from factory and call centre operatives, to logistics and public service administrators – this report explores the rapidly changing relationships between business and employees, people and technology.
The resulting ‘framework for responsible automation’ presents five guiding principles to encourage the implementation of new workplace technologies in a way that will give automation the best chance possible to deliver on its potential in a way that benefits everyone'.
We are not taught how to learn in school, we are taught how to pass tests. The spacing effect is a far more effective way to learn and retain information that works with our brain instead of against it. Find out how to use it here.
We're taught single loop learning from the time we are in grade school, but there's a better way. Double loop learning is the quickest and most efficient way to learn anything that you want to "stick."
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Many of us are so focused on solving problems as they arise that we don’t take the time to reflect on them after we’ve dealt with them, and this omission dramatically limits our ability to learn from the experiences.
Double loop learning is the key to turning experience into improvements, information into action, and conversations into progress. Key questions:
What is the current theory in use?
How does it differ from proposed strategies and goals?
What unspoken rules are being followed, and are they detrimental?
It would be easy to conclude that The Learning Organisation is a fantasy. Global financing and market pressures will never allow such a concept to really happen. Shareholders will always take the s…
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The inherent strength of the system and the challenges of influencing, nudging and changing the system. The power of networks in creating the learning organisation.
“The central change with Enterprise 2.0 and ideas of managing knowledge [is] not managing knowledge anymore — get out of the way, let people do what they want to do, and harvest the stuff that emerges from it because good stuff will emerge. So, it’s been a fairly deep shift in thinking about how to capture and organize and manage knowledge in an organization.” —Andy McAfee
All change involves loss and some degree of grief, but we rarely help people — or ourselves — process loss at work. Never mind learn ways to recover and become stronger. Losing a job. Losing work…
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Post-traumatic growth and processing of loss in the working environment.
Our easy to use employee feedback examples provide you with the tools to give effective feedback and kick outdated performance reviews to the curb.
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This Culture Amp article has a really good overview of the why, how and what of feedback - good language, framing and examples to draw on. The title speaks to ditching performance reviews, but this isn't really explored.
Here are the 4 conundrums in the universe that limit our own intelligence and the intelligence of every other person, collective, organism, machine, alien, or imaginable god.
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There are 4 qualities of the universe that limit our own intelligence and the intelligence of every other person, collective, organism, machine, alien, or imaginable god. All 200ish of our known biases are attempts to work around these conundrums!
Gabrielle Dolan has kindly made her book about storytelling for job interviews freely available to the public. This post will take you to a pdf of the book, but you can explore Gabrielle's work and more of her books at her website.
There’s a lot of conversation lately about working out loud, particularly the benefits it brings to the individual worker. But selling the idea of sharing to organization leaders can be another matter. Narrating work offers myriad benefits to organizations, from better locating talent and finding tacit knowledge to increasing efficiencies to improving communication. But organizations married to more traditional knowledge management processes may have trouble seeing past those.
Andrew Gerkens's insight:
Jane Bozarth provides a great overview of the concept of working out loud
Dr. Will Thalheimer shares his revolutionary Learning Landscape Model for workplace learning-and-performance professionals. Based on years of research from preeminent scientific refereed journals on learning, memory, and instruction---and wisdom from the practical crucible of real workplace learning situations---the model helps guide instructional design and work-learning design and evaluation, while simultaneously being a great starting point for conversations with our organizational stakeholders who need to know how learning can more fully support organizational performance.
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A simple, but powerful exploration of the core pathway from learning to results and key enablers of performance, as well as the opportunities for L&D practitioners to maximise their impact:
Learning Zone - Off and on the job learning
Trigger Zone - Remembering and prompting (performance support)
Performance Zone - Doing
Results Zone - Individual and Organisational Results
It’s easy to say that it was when I was traveling, or in college, or even when I first moved to Israel. Even more importantly, how can I experience more moments of growth in my day to day? Where do…
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Real growth happens by reaching beyond yourself. This means having compassion for someone when they don’t ‘deserve’ it.
In short, it means overcoming your ego — the desire to assert yourself, to prove that you are right. Every interaction is an opportunity for growth. Apply deliberate practice to these interactions:
Every Interaction is an Opportunity to Grow: This is a game changer. I’ve started to view every interaction as a ‘test’ — an opportunity to either reach beyond myself, or not — and it makes a difference. Just try it.
Be Ready for the Test: Before I enter a difficult interaction, i.e. a conversation I know may lead to anger, I tell myself to ‘Be ready for the test”. It’s not magic, but it does help me view this interaction as an opportunity.
Breathe: During difficult situations (with a partner, colleagues, etc.) I tell myself to breathe before speaking. To take my time, to pause. Again, very far from magic, but it helps.
Recap: After difficult interactions I assess how ‘well’ I did. Was I as kind as I could have been? Did I help the other person feel seen and understood?
Celebrate: This stuff is hard as hell. Most of the time I fail miserably. Most of the time I curse this ‘reaching beyond yourself’ sh*t and wallow in self righteousness. But sometimes I don’t. And when I manage to ‘reach beyond myself’ — I celebrate this victory. And it feels good, and it gives me the confidence to try even harder next time.
Wondering how you can Achieve Learning Agility? Check 9 techniques to help you reach the ultimate Learning Agility and adapt your way to volatility.
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Great strategies to develop learning agility and future proof your career. The tips all come from the Learn2Learn app - download it and integrate it into your practice.
An additional practice/skill I would encourage people to adopt, which also serves an an enabler of many of the techniques discussed in the article is the ability to step away from the dance floor to spend time on the balcony. The balcony perspective, helps you make time and space to reflect, make sense of your environment and identify where/how to best proceed (nudge forward). It is a skill for dealing with complexity and speed - two factors influencing the future of work. Mastering this skill will help us learn, adapt and thrive. You can read more about it here - https://hbr.org/2002/06/a-survival-guide-for-leaders
Among the most significant qualities demonstrated by effective leaders is the ability to make meaning of their experiences by interpreting the deeper insights that can be gained from daily interactions in the workplace, especially when times are challenging.
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A great summary of the need for approaches to learning to change. Positions the need and opportunity for workplace learning and 70:20:10 and demonstrates the need for a strategic approach.
Performance (and capability) are outcomes and a range of factors contribute to building and sustaining them.
Here is the link to part two of the article, which includes a further link to download the full white paper:
http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1568/marc-my-words-in-learning-and-performance-ecosystems-part-2