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2008 Podcasts
November 2008
Wary, Not Worried
November 2008 LX Briefing Feature
As the economy continues to sour, how worried should you be about your learning organization? There is plenty to chew on in the new ASTD State of the Industry report.
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Taking Care of the Caregivers
November 2008 LX Briefing View from the Learning Executive
At Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, taking care of sick children requires a highly capable work-force and culture that can sustain the dual pressures of growth and the stress of the work itself. Chief Learning Officer Larry Mohl, who has been with the healthcare system for four years, following a career path that included roles at Motorola and American Express, talked with LXB about performance management.
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Virtual World, Real Learning
November 2008 LX Briefing Hot Topic
Will the virtual world be the best place for learning? A research team at North Carolina State University has developed a new way to measure how “real” online virtual worlds can be.
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September 2008
Adding It Up
September 2008 LX Briefing Feature
Even in the current turbulent and challenging economic times, learning executives are cautiously optimistic about the capabilities of their learning functions for the coming six months. While nearly one-third of the respondents expect overall conditions within their own industry to worsen, fewer than one in 10 believe their ability to meet their organization’s learning needs will deteriorate.
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Dinner Is Served
September 2008 LX Briefing View from the Learning Executive
Daisy Ng, senior vice president of talent management at Darden Restaurants, talks about building organizational capability, capacity, and engagement at Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, and Seasons 52.
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Bye-Bye Boomers?
September 2008 LX Briefing Hot Topic
Baby boomers may be hanging around in the workplace longer than imagined, which gives learning executives time to mine their brains for critical knowledge.
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August 2008
Vicarious Learning for Business
August 2008 LX Briefing Feature
According to social research, we generally don’t like advice when it comes to entrenched problems and rarely yield to it.
In Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, a book I would recommend to anyone interested in motivating others, the authors (Kerry Patterson, et al) explain that people will change difficult behavior only 1) if they think that the change is worth it; and 2) if they can actually do it. The next best thing to doing the task themselves is watching or hearing a story about another person, who is similar to them, doing the very same task.
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A Commitment to Serve
August 2008 LX Briefing View from the Learning Executive
A decidedly different measure of success drives learning and development at the U.S. General Services Administration.
Linda Osgood, director of the Human Capital Asset Management Division in the General Services Administration’s Public Buildings Service Office of Organizational Resources since 2004, talks to LXB about acquiring, maintaining, developing, and divesting human capital.
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Game-Based Learning: Worth the Hype?
August 2008 LX Briefing Hot Topic
Convincing upper management to use simulation-based learning is part of the battle.
It’s understandable for senior executives to be dubious about the new era of 3-D games and immersive worlds now making their entrance onto the corporate learning stage. Although ubiquitous within Generation Y as an entertainment option, 3-D games and virtual universes like Second Life are being utilized by a relative handful of organizations as learning tools.
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