One of my managers asked about the value of classroom training. The conversation then promptly veered from that topic. Quite honestly – it is something that probably requires more than 30 seconds of conversation. So this gives me an opportunity to revisit some of my thinking on the value and purpose of the classroom training […]
Growth Opportunities
This is the way I currently visualize and categorize the activities around our roadmap. This post discusses the blue Content box in the middle. The one our team has “control” over. ————- We’ve had a reorg – so I spent part of last week updating my new management about the Learning Ecosystem and the roadmap. […]
An Example of Needs Assessment
During a recent project, one of our SMEs kept INSISTING “Everyone KNOWS the process!” Then in the next sentence she complains about how they are doing it wrong. Don’t know about you – but in my “professional” opinion, this tells me that their target audience either: a) Does NOT KNOW the process b) Doesn’t understand […]
90+ Day Evaluation – The Subscription-Based Learning Experiment
So far, subscription-based learning has been a resounding success. At least in terms of popularity. I’ve received a lot of comments that they love the material. Find it useful. Look forward to each week’s post (which is saying something with the amount of bulk mail clutter we get in our inboxes each week). I’ve even […]
Cloud-Based Subscriptions
A major trend seems to be the move to cloud-based subscription services. Adobe’s Creative Cloud announcement is one example (thanks Michael!). I’m seeing the beginnings of the same thing with Microsoft’s Office. This trend has a pretty significant impact on how we advise and support our burgeoning community of staff eLearning developers. ————— In our […]
Subscription-Based Learning: The Videos
As part of this subscription-based learning program, I am incorporating really quick, really amateurish videos into the blog posts for the technical pieces. Little time, few resources (basically me and some software), small scope = meh quality. It is acceptable for now. Examples: Creating Virtual meetings Creating Standing meetings Participant audio Moderator audio Some of […]
Playing with Subscription-Based Learning
My university has been implementing a telecommuting program for the past year. We now have over 300 (known) people who telecommute 1-5 days per week. In the initial pilot stage – we had three 1 hour classes separated by one week. The first class covered the technology they could use. The other 2 classes covering […]
Trying to Get Out of “Survival Mode”
I keep staring at my triangle of purpose. At that big green Compliance section at the bottom. So much of what is crossing my desk these days is driven by fear. Tracking of “mandatory” activities to cover our tails. Is any of this “mandatory” training reducing the number of legal cases we have? Increasing our […]
The Pandora’s Box of Purpose
The Data Whisperer stared at my fancy 2 slide PowerPoint. What about purpose? Um…kinda didn’t want to open that Pandora’s box. It depresses me. Open the box, Wendy. Could be fun! ———————- What I hear – Professional Development is the real value of this system! What I observe in our organization (the allocation of resources […]
Summarizing the Learning Ecosystem
I’ve been working with the new SWAT Team Member for Enterprise Business Process to help clarify some of my ideas. Her mandate is to look at things in our world holistically. She recommended that I come up with a quick single-sheet diagram of what I am talking about to share with others – Sr. Exec […]
