A review of Management Reset: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness by Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley More »

Human Capital , Senior Leaders & Executives , Workforce Development

Business Impact , Human Performance Improvement , Innovation , Social Learning , Trends

According to new ASTD-i4cp research, 65 percent of employers are either using, considering, or currently developing learning for mobile devices. As a concept, mobile learning has been around for several years; some companies began delivering information in text format t... More »

Learning Technologies

Career Development , E-Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Mobile Learning , Social Learning , Training and Development - General

Low- to medium-income Americans are learning how to use credit cards responsibly from a new interactive video game created for a Boston-based not-for-profit organization called Doorway to Dreams (D2D Fund). Players of "Celebrity Calamity" earn kudos for timely payments,... More »

Human Capital , Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Human Performance Improvement , Managing the Learning Function , Simulations and Serious Games , Social Learning

Forming a committee to develop a social media strategy didn't seem right to Greg Matthews, director of consumer innovation at Humana. He saw advantages in encouraging the company's 28,500 employees to begin to incorporate new practices, and wanted to demonstrate an alte... More »

Human Capital , Learning Technologies

Business Impact , E-Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Innovation , Social Learning

Web 2.0 and social networking tools are playing a growing role in informal learning inside organizations. But there's an odd catch. They work best when employees trust the tools and use them, which is closely related to how much control employees are given and how littl... More »

Learning Technologies

Designing Learning , E-Learning , Human Performance Improvement , Social Learning