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5/15/2012 11:03 AM
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By Chris Osborn on
4/13/2012 12:19 PM
We’ve watched the employee learning and development discipline evolve from a classroom-only, instructor-based system towards a methodology that attempts to put the needs of the learner first. At its core, this was the promise of competency-based training, and many organizations successfully made that transition. E-learning also emerged as another employee development tool that placed the needs of the learner first. The biggest recent development in employee learning and development is the emergence of informal and social learning as recognized element in the employee development process. As we plot this evolutionary curve of employee learning, the first three stops along the way – instructor-led classroom, competency-based training and e-learning share one important feature. All three methodologies end up delivering programs that are driven by content – either content we buy, or content we build. The beauty of our growing awareness of the value, impact and importance of informal and social learning is that learning is now moving to center stage.
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4/11/2012 1:43 PM
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By Chris Osborn on
4/11/2012 8:53 AM
ASTD released its annual State of the Industry Report. It’s an excellent bit of research, and it’s worth the time and effort to read. You can get a copy by joining ASTD, but I am sure you will see a lot of the report’s key information widely reported and reproduced on the web over the coming months. One consistent theme with this specific report and other “state of the industry” reports is the relentless focus on the Fortune 500 and really large organizations. I find this data, in general, to be helpful and informative, but it doesn’t speak to my organization (BizLibrary), nor does the information relate to our market – smaller organizations. It’s almost like smaller organizations and the employee development challenge we face are irrelevant in the broader market. Professionals working in smaller organizations on the day-to-day challenges of employee development know that is not true, but we can learn valuable lessons from reports like this.
1. Spending for Training per Employee
ASTD reports...
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