10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 1) The goal of learning in the workplace is performance–individual and organizational.
If we’ve learned nothing else in recent years, we’ve learned that learning is most effective when it is integrated with real work. Learning pundits encourage the this integration but don’t always offer practical strategies that busy learning professionals can to use to make it happen. How can we begin to truly reduce the number courses and catalogs in enterprise training and find ways to bring learning to the job? In a series of following posts I’ll share some practices and approaches that have worked for me. There is incredible variety in the business settings where we work, the jobs we support and the latitude we have to build our solutions. 1.
Each of the 10 strategies on the list in the highlight box on the right, have helped me to improve performance through learning without pulling people way from the job for formal (classroom or e-learning) training. 1. 2. 3. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: The Kimono Is Open, The Veil Is Lifted, The Gags Are Removed...
If you find the title of this blog familiar, it should be.
Mike Fitz used it when he posted his first remarks about SharePoint 2007 back on September 14, 2005. Here we are in 2009 with a product releasing in about 6 months. Amazing what a journey it’s been, and things are just starting to heat up. Right now Steve Balmer is probably on-stage in Vegas and 7000 SharePoint nerds are listening to him. Developers, Developers, Developers. So welcome to the New SharePoint Order, namely SharePoint 2010. The changes in 2010 are huge. So let’s take a look at an overview of the changes in some of the areas in SharePoint. Platform I actually stumbled across a MSDN blog that mentioned this a few days ago, but it was buried and I guess nobody really got it out there (at least I haven’t see anyone talk about it).
The Service Model has been re-architected so you no longer need a Shared Services Provider (SSP). There’s also a big investment in hosting scenarios. User Interface PowerShell The Social Aspect. 5 key topics to be discussed for a Enterprise 2.0 strategy. While we are still far away from the maturity stage of Enterprise 2.0 in terms of numbers of realized projects, the discussion about the Enterprise 2.0 topic becomes more matured and leads finally beyond talking about the chances and opportunities.
This might be a sign of the on-going economic crisis and its urge for a more specific discussion about this topic (see the call for the Reality Check 2.0), but it might also be a result of the emergence of the now gained insights from the first best-practices in this field. The exchange of experiences is a very supportive means for this – as enforced by initiatives like the 2.0 Adoption Council , E20Cases.org and others. This said – I think it’s time to consolidate the topics to be discussed in regards to improve and enhance Enterprise 2.0 projects. From my research for setting up the conference program of the Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT – I identified 5 key topics for project leads to take care of: 4) Be aware of the complexity of changing the game.