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Employability, the biggest challenge

November 9, 2008
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| Categories: employability, HR, Leadership, Learning, Recruitment, Trends, Work Literacy, Workplace Learning

In my second part in the series, I share what Manish Sabharwal spoke at our annual strategy input conference. Manish Sabharwal is the Chairman and co-founder of TeamLease. Manish wanted to start a new company that was profitable, fun, and good for India. He co-founded Team Lease, a staffing company, and in six years his company has grown to 80,000 employees and $250 million company. It was great fun listening to Manish again this year.According to Manish, vocational training has to come with a job. There has been an employment…

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A Question of Browsers and Organization Productivity

August 29, 2008
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| Categories: Browsers, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Productivity, Work Literacy, Workplace Learning

Two posts on Mark Oehlert’s blog caught my eye today. In his post about Ubiquity user-generated mashups plugin for Firefox browser, Mark wonders why organizations standardize on IE when a much better product is available at the same cost (free). I responded on his blog and realized this could be a post of its own. As I wrote in my post on why workplace learning is largely 1.0, here are some of the reasons for organizations standardizing on IE: I guess the fact that the OS comes preloaded with a…

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Innovation, Quality and Failure

May 16, 2008
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| Categories: Innovation, Quality, Workplace Learning

There is an interesting discussion ongoing in our internal (behind the firewall) blog. It is getting interesting and I thought I would get some wider perspectives on this subject.My colleague writes:Innovation is a messy process where different alternatives need to be tried before we really get something new and useful. For one success there will be many failures. "Innovation" without some "Failure" is not feasible. Therefore, the system has to nurture failureOn the other hand "Quality" is about delivering on time, every time. "Failure" is not an option. Therefore, the…

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Academic Results vs. Workplace performance

April 27, 2008
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| Categories: Academic, performance, performance management, Workplace Learning

Is there a correlation between academic results and workplace performance? Any research or pointers to this subject?I am faced with a situation to try and solve the talent acquisition challenge for large IT organizations in India. One of the challenges is that for hiring fresh graduates, large IT organization work with a certain cut off marks (60%) in graduation. However I believe that this cut off is hampering their ability to tap into a large pool of talent who might do the job equally well. I would interested in hearing…

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Working/Learning Blog Carnival – April 2008

April 20, 2008
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| Categories: eCube, Workplace Learning

Dave Ferguson kicked off the first Working/Learning blog carnival (a collection of posts around one topic) on his blog. Blog carnivals are a kind of anthology-on-the-fly, a collection of posts from several blogs. For each issue of a carnival, participants post on their own blogs, and a host posts links to all the participating posts.The theme of the blog carnival is "Work at Learning/Learning at Work" primarily aimed at people who work in the training/learning area (that is, non-academics) e.g., how training/learning professionals go about their own learning, or how…

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Leadership Impact on Workplace Learning

April 20, 2008
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In my previous post, I wrote about why workplace learning is largely Learning 1.0. I wrote that organizations found it easier to focus on training rather than learning because training is measurable while we still struggle with measuring learning. There are also social pressures of not using Web 2.0 tools for learning in workplace while in educator’s world the social pressures force them to use the Web 2.0 tools. The post received generated an interesting discussion. Michele Martin commented that if only companies realized people who learn were high performers…

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Why Workplace Learning Is Largely Learning 1.0

April 13, 2008
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| Categories: Workplace Learning

Michele Martin has been writing a string of posts about why workplace learning is largely using authoring and presenting tools – more like “Learning 1.0” types of approaches, while the educators are using more Web 2.0 tools like Wikis, blogs etc. She refers to Jane Hart’s Spring 2008 Top 100 Tools for Learning, a compilation of the top 10 tools identified by 155 elearning professionals, a list to which I also contributed. Jane and Michele make interesting observation about the differences between learning in corporate world and an educator’s world.In…

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