Some Thoughts on the Role of Workplace Learning in Employee Engagement – Part 2 of a Series

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Employee Engagement
Much has been written about the importance of keeping employees engaged and motivated.  Yet what role does training play in that? I asked that question recently on an internet forum, and got a wide variety of responses.  Over the course of a few weeks, the blog will post a series of articles on the topic. …

The Benefits of Corporate Training – Staff Retention and Satisfaction

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Training
It occurs to me that while this blog has looked a lot at what can go wrong in corporate training, and the various organizational models and theories that it entails, we need to look more at the guaranteed benefits of corporate training, in particular this time to talk about staff retention and satisfaction. Of course,…

Some Thoughts on the Role of Workplace Learning in Employee Engagement: Part 1 of a Series

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Employee Engagement
Much has been written about the importance of keeping employees engaged and motivated.  Yet what role does training play in that? I asked that question recently on an internet forum, and got a wide variety of responses.  Over the coming few weeks, the blog will post a series of articles on the topic.   We’ll look…

Developing an Organizational Learning Framework

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Learning
Let’s try a different exercise today, shall we? Let’s actually design our own organizational learning framework. I’ve talked a lot about the nature of many that already exist, and man are there a lot of them. But I’ve mentioned in passing that a lot of experts will design their own frameworks, and I’ve even cited some…

Organizational Learning and Communities of Practice

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Learning
How strong is the link between organizational learning and communities of practice? Well, they’re not mutually exclusive, but they are not interdependent either. The thing is, the concepts developed independently from various experts in the same basic fields, but that’s not to say that you can’t use them together. Using organizational learning and communities of practice…

Paul Hill of SystemExperts on BYOD’s Impact on Workplace Training

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Interviews
As part of a series of articles on this blog we started last month on the impact of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy is having on workplace learning and development, I spoke recently with Paul Hill, Senior Consultant for SystemExperts, an important network security consulting firm. Paul Hill has worked with SystemExperts as a…

Instructional Design Methodology and Strategy

Posted by Jason Silberman on Posted in Organizational Development, Organizational Learning, Organizational Training
So, a new buzzword has arisen on the internet, in training circles, that being instructional design methodology. Is this something real, or is it just another fluff word that means nothing, used as a sticker to make a product seem shiny or trendy? If it is real, what is it, and can we use it? Is…