Peer Learning Groups and the Adult Learner
Discovering how adults learn is more than just an academic obsession of researchers and university professors. Instead, the study of how adults learn is an important endeavor in today’s environment…
Discovering how adults learn is more than just an academic obsession of researchers and university professors. Instead, the study of how adults learn is an important endeavor in today’s environment…
“I didn’t fail 10,000 times, I succeeded in finding 10,000 methods that wouldn’t work.” -Thomas Edison Our Failures are Our Closest Guarded Secrets Research shows that talking about failure makes…
“A peer learning group is a wonderful testing ground for new behaviors.” Deborah Spring Laurel Civil Discussion The public library in Waupaca, Wisconsin is going to have a Civil Discussion…
“Authentic learning is the essential setting that education requires to move towards sustainable, meaningful, relevant learning in the 21st century.” Steve Revington Authentic Learning Authentic learning means real world, learner-centered…
Learning in organizations should be organic, natural and sustainable. Organizations are living organisms that need to constantly renew and reinvent themselves to be able to survive and grow. They do…
We are social animals and we learn socially. We come together in diverse groups large and small to share what we already know, gain new knowledge, and create something new…
In the previous blog, we looked at the problems inherent in teaching a new hire a large number of proprietary information systems. In this blog, we’ll look at two issues…
Your organization probably has proprietary information systems that some of your employees need to use to perform their work. So, when new hires enter your organization, they need to learn…
Monitoring involves conducting periodic checks to determine an employee's level of performance in relation to established performance standards. Monitoring provides the data by which performance is ultimately evaluated. It is…
Training is intended to support employee performance. Supervisors should take advantage of this important resource and actively participate throughout the entire training process. After all, supervisors are in the best…