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…

Effective Employee Training Techniques

Posted by Kevin Goldberg on Posted in Organizational Training
Allright everyone.  The time has come to talk about some effective employee training techniques. This blog have spent more time than I care to recall talking over and over about organizational learning models, gamficiation, knowledge management and the whole shebang, so we won’t even touch those today, mostly. We’re going to talk about individual and model-independent…

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…

Making Company Training Programs More Engaging

Posted by Boaz Amidor on Posted in Organizational Training
Company training programs are something, the mere mention of which often brings audible groans and sighs from everyone. And why shouldn’t it? In most modern environments, training is feels like just a chore for everyone, managers and employees alike. The workers don’t want to be there because they’d rather do their job they were hired for,…

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

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…