Some L&D Articles / Blog Posts That You May Have Missed This Week

Hey everyone. Hope you have a great weekend! With that said, here are 4 articles from this week: What I Wished I’d Learned in School – (Learnlets – Clark Quinn’s blog) – Clark Quinn was asked a very simple question – what do you wish you had been taught in school?  Simple yes, but a nice

Global Knowledge Wins Cisco Geographical Region Awards for Learning Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2013

 Global Knowledge announced earlier this week that it was awarded the cisco Partner Summit Geographical Region Award for Learning Partner of the Year.  Cisco unveiled the winners during its annual partner conference that place recently in Boston. The Cisco Partner Summit Geographical Region award recognizes exemplary partners who demonstrate best-in-class business practices and serve as

Bounded Rationality and Organizational Learning

Today, I want to look at the bounded rationality and organizational learning relationship, and how important it actually is to factor it in when training in a modern atmosphere. In order to accurately talk about the bounded rationality and organizational learning link, I need to explain first what it is. Well, basically it’s the understanding

A Runaway With Knowledge Management Tools

Knowledge management tools have become a runaway new niche in the business software industry. With the need for better access of information with open search syntaxes, and the need for training to become more managed and accessible with less ceremony, this was just a matter of time. Knowledge management tools are not just about the organizational

The Value of Simplicity in Employee Training

I wanted to write about something we all can appreciate – the art of simplicity. Innovation doesn’t necessarily need to be complicated. Sometimes, by simplifying the different work processes you can easily come up with new ideas and out-of-the-box solutions to your business problems. That’s why, when it comes to innovation, the best thing a

The Main Organizational Learning Perspective of 2013

A couple weeks ago, I had coffee with my colleague, and he raised an interesting point I’d overlooked in my training literature in the past. He pointed out that different groups of companies have a varying organizational learning perspective. So do these perspectives, as a summary zeitgeist of the business world, change over time, like any

Towards Maturity launches the 2013 Benchmark Study to Help Organizations Measure L&D Effectiveness

Here is something interesting I saw this week. Learning and development research company Towards Maturityannounced the launch of its tenth year of Benchmark research, the largest study of L&D effectiveness in Europe. The study is open to L&D leaders across all sectors and it is free to take part. Participants can access the study on