Categories: Organizational Learning

In any organizational learning situation with a significant count of people, such as a division, department, team or entire organization, you almost always find yourself needing to implement a tram training model in order to be quick and efficient in training. This was once kind of an unfortunate if unavoidable thing, because the human element in…

One of the more annoying concepts to contend with in training are organizational employee core competencies, and how to measure them. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I hate things like buzzwords and superfluous jargon, and this here is a prime example of the latter. Oh yes. But, the meaning behind this term…

Put this in the optimism category and something to be hopeful for. In an article published earlier this week on the AOL jobs site, Debra Auerbach references a report put forth by Economic Modeling Specialists Intl., with the five industries that are expected to grow the fastest between 2013 and 2016, along with examples of the…

This post first appeared (very slight changes were made) in April of this year, in the ASTD Career Development blog.  The lessons are very much relevant to Training Station readers, so I post it here for your reference. Albert Einstein was one of the most successful scientists of all time, whose discoveries radically changed the…

Definitions are difficult sometimes, particularly when you’re dealing with a topic as abstract and , well…hard to define such as learning.  Knowledge is transferred and absorbed in many different ways.  Even more so in an age of hyper-speed technology, where access to information is available at any time, from any location, through a wide range…

Ever wonder about what the future holds? No, I’m not talking about science fiction or some sort of religious prophecy. KnowledgeWorks,  a foundation that provides innovative tools, training and assistance to school leaders, teachers and community stakeholders, recently released the following infographic on the future of learning.       The inforgraphic, which can be…