(With inputs from Nilesh Vani, Executive Vice President, Aptech Learning Services)
Blended Training
With so many factors conspiring against the instructor, how could we have effective training in organizations?
In his classic 1954 article, The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching, B.F. Skinner—the father of operant conditioning—described the conditions of the typical classroom as particularly adverse [...]
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Instructors 2.0 (3)
Posted in Delivering for business results, Optimizing costs & resources on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Instructors 2.0 (2)
Posted in Delivering for business results, Optimizing costs & resources on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(With inputs from Nilesh Vani, Executive Vice President, Aptech Learning Services)
Adults need to be involved in the planning and evaluation of their instruction
School and college students, by design, do not have a say in what they have to learn. Learned collegiums of wizened educators decide what should and should not go into the textbooks. The [...]
Instructors 2.0 (1)
Posted in Delivering for business results, Optimizing costs & resources on July 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(With inputs from Nilesh Vani, Executive Vice President, Aptech Learning Services)
“Instructors are indispensable”—the factoid has been drilled into our collective consciousness over millennia. From the gurukuls of ancient India to the Lyceums of the West, this practice of face-to-face instruction to wide-eyed pupils—technically called “pedagogy”—has prevailed through the annals of time.
However, Knowles’ “andragogy” (teaching to [...]
Learning for Downtime
Posted in Delivering for business results on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the manufacturing industry, production downtime during annual shutdowns can cost millions. This is an excellent opportunity for L&D managers to contribute to the business bottom-line. Let’s say there’s a large petroleum refinery that requires a 15-day shutdown for its yearly maintenance operations. As the operators are predominantly trained and skilled (through repetition) on routine [...]
From R&D to L&D (5)
Posted in Delivering for business results, tagged Training Deilvery on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Delivering for Business Results
After getting the right content in place, Bob has to arrange to deliver the training to his 2,000+ workforce spread across 12 different countries. This workforce spoke 5 different languages, like, Finnish, Chinese, Romanian, Brazilian and Russian. Training courses were hosted on the LMS of the organization. Bob formed a new team [...]
Achieving L&D Efficiency in One Year
Posted in Aligning to corporate strategies, Delivering for business results, Developing quality content, Managing resistance to change, Measuring bottom-line impact, Optimizing costs & resources on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Head of Human Resources of a leading ISP company asked me not so long ago what could be the least possible time in which his organization could transition into a “lean, mean, and hard” L&D machine. I thought for a moment and said, “One year, at best.” Of course, as a consultant, I cannot [...]
From R&D to L&D (1)
Posted in Aligning to corporate strategies, Delivering for business results, Developing quality content, General, Managing resistance to change, Measuring bottom-line impact, Optimizing costs & resources, tagged Business Challenge, Failing Marketing strategies, HR concerns, People Differentiation on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Business Case
It’s the end of the first quarter, and the conference room of Acme Corporation was buzzing with activity with “Channel Partners Meet”. Channel partners were generally displeased with the products and services of the company. They were unable to sustain competitive advantages through product differentiators. Though the company kept innovating to offer world-class [...]
