How Do We Support Competency Models?

Competency models are becoming increasingly important to the sustainment of a work force. Whether faced by challenges of replacing highly qualified team members who choose to retire or building skills to improve quality, competency models provide a framework of the knowledge, skills, abilities and characteristics (attitudes, behaviors) that are vital to a given role.
The competency [...]

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Son of a Teacher Man

I never wanted to be a teacher. My mom taught elementary school, my dad taught biology to high school kids, and just about everybody else in my family—cousins, aunts, uncles—eventually found their way into the education field (even my little sister’s a teacher now). But not me. I was going to be an artist.
So I [...]

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SEO: How To Hit The Elusive Target

Everybody wants to be number one. No, I am not talking about sports teams, but Web site rankings on Search Engines. Search Engine Optimization, or SEO as it it known today, is a discipline (and lucrative job if you’re well versed) that has been around since the first Search engines hit the Web. Early on, [...]

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Your Online Learning May Be Doomed To Fail

Will you be doomed to failure and fall into the e-Learning abyss if you don’t take the time to create a strategy for the organization? At some level, I would say, “Yes,absolutely!” Does it have to be a “formal” strategy as I suggest in this chapter? Probably not. However, if you are “feeling” your way [...]

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The 9 Areas Of Focus For An e-Learning Strategy

The process for developing an e-Learning strategy is exactly the same as the process for developing a learning strategy. However, a focus on dissemination of content via technology usually emerges. Whereas the process for developing an e-Learning strategy can be comprehensive, it is far easier to digest if broken into component parts.
The areas of focus [...]

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Your Roadmap To Performance Improvement

Development of the learning strategy will enable the organization to determine the needs across the enterprise for capture and creation, intelligent storage and dissemination of information, and the role of technology. Many organizations simply cannot justify the need to put content online as it will serve little or no value in getting the work done. [...]

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Plug The Hole In The Knowledge Dam

Having read a lot about knowledge management and knowledge wealth, I have a  favorite quote regarding the topic:
A burden shared is a burden halved; an intellectual asset shared is one doubled.
I love that! Talk about a return on investment. Who doesn’t want that kind of action?
Yet, it never ceases to amaze me how companies allow [...]

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Bring Back The Word “Sticky”

I was telling a friend about the various projects and solutions I work on. When I brought up online learning and performance management, I used the word “sticky”.
“Wow, now that is a word I haven’t heard since the early days of the Web,” my friend exclaimed.
I knew what he was referring to. Sticky was a [...]

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8 Mythbusters For Translating Your Content For A Global Audience

“Going Global” can be the Midas touch or death touch of any organization. Understanding the unique aspects of language and culture is time consuming to say the least. In an effort to “get to market” quickly, many companies and non-profits overlook (and sometimes hop over) the requirements for a successful launch into other countries.For those [...]

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