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Are you really leading?
Through the years I have seen a number of people who hold high ranking roles, CEO’s, VP’s, and other “C” suite titles. I admit the titles led me to think of them as leaders, as the people creating the...
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It takes a team!
Recently I attended an Oireachtas, a very specialized Irish dance competition. Usually the competitions, a feis, features individuals competing and there were individuals dancing here too however the...
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Always Consider Retention: Maximizing Success in Competency-Based Education
Roughly 600 colleges are in the design phase for a new competency-based education (CBE) program, are actively creating one or already have a program in place. That’s up from an estimated 52...
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Is CBE Almost the Next Big Thing?
Hard to believe but almost four years ago the biggest barriers stopping competency-based education (CBE) from fully evolving were regulatory. While much has changed, there is much that has stayed the...
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Launching a Unique Competency-Based Offering at a Community College (Part 1)
In an industry that has a tendency to get swept up by trends and fads, competency-based education (CBE) has proved its value time and again over a matter of decades. Over the past few years we’ve seen...
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Launching a Unique Competency-Based Offering at a Community College (Part 2)
In an industry that has a tendency to get swept up by trends and fads, competency-based education (CBE) has proved its value time and again over a matter of decades. Over the past few years we’ve seen...
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What’s in a gen?
So we have 5 generations in the workforce at the same time with so many different needs and requirements and ways to lead and supervise and communicate and commute and work and and and …… and I think...
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A Conversation on Competency-based Assessment design
Do you need to develop content and design courses that will meet the requirements a competency-based model has? Do you design with the end in mind supporting an assessment strategy that provides...
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Nanodegree, micro credential, stackable – it’s still learning!
Stackable credentials, nanodegrees, badges, microcredentials – what happened to having a regular old-fashioned “degree”? The good news is education is available to more people than ever before...
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Curation is a learning service (we should use!)
Why would learning professionals talk about something that museums do? Because curation is a process learning & development professionals should be using to support their business partners using a...
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Let’s focus on the WIIFM…
So what comes first, employees go learn or employers invest in learning? Many organizations offer tuition reimbursement but did you know that recent research found that only an “average 51% of...
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It took a dance for me to see..
You should know I am writing a book framed by the many blog posts I have written about learning, strategy, design, and improving human performance. About 3 months ago I suddenly couldn’t write a...
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Why should a learning strategy focus on competencies?
Typically learning strategies link learning options ranging from training and professional development to the enterprise-wide business goals and objectives. A common mistake is to focus these learning...
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Leadership & Learning: A Strategic Combination
You are a leader, you are invested in your organization’s success, growth, and stability. You understand what an ABC analysis is, how to read a balance sheet, and can nod your head when P/E Ratio...
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Broaden & Build your (learning) way to success
Learning must impact the bottom line, consider that “80% of CEOs surveyed say their top strategy to enable digital transformation is to reskill current employees” (CLO Insight Summit, September2017)....
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The learning is still here, just everywhere.
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) people from around the world had the chance to look and explore thousands of tools that will be used at work, in homes, while in transit. More than the...
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Knowledge Economy or Performance Economy? The shift is on…
The Get Fit for Tomorrow’s Work + Learn Economy convening brought together 100+ leaders from business, industry, government, and education to focus on developing foresight needed to support the working...
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Leadership – you know it when you see it
I am watching and listening to many different high school choir groups and ensemble’s in a regional county competition attending as a proud parent. During the various sets I have observed different...
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Develop your talent pipeline: Start from the inside out!
How does your organization hire new people? Post a job description online, have recruiters sift and search, interview until they find someone? How is that working out? And how long do those new...
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Onboarding – It’s more than 1 & Done!
Remember your first day at the new job? Who knew there were so many benefit options? And do I put a 0 or a 1 in the tax forms? But the video from the CEO was interesting and they fed you lunch,...
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