by Sherry Engel “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” –John Quincy Adams People who know me, know I’m addicted to quotes. When I read this quote, it struck me as being so parallel to a recent article I read on leadership [...]
Archive for March, 2010
The Leadership Litmus Test
Posted in Change Management, Leadership, Performance Improvement, tagged Change Management, Leadership, Organizational Change, Performance Improvement on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Virtual Immersive Environments: From Theory to Practice, Part 3: The View from IBM
Posted in Emerging Technologies, Performance Improvement, Series, Virtual Immersive Environments, tagged Emerging Technologies, Organizational Learning, Performance Improvement, Virtual Immersive Environments, virtual worlds on March 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
by Rich Mesch (Links to other articles in this series: 1 2 3 4 5 6) [This is the first of several entries in a series-within-a series where we’ll explore the impact that IBM has had on the use of VIEs in business. Today’s entry is the first of at least two that are based on an [...]
The Science Behind Learning: Cognitive Tips and How Tos for Corporate Training (Part 2)
Posted in Performance Improvement, Series, tagged Cognition, Learning Theory, Performance Improvement on March 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
by Reni Gorman (Links to other articles in this series: 1 2 3 4 5 6) Tip #2: Use the conceptual framework (you created in tip #1) to organize course material into hierarchical groups, subgroups and chunks of 7 (plus or minus 2). Cognitive Psychology: Prepare information for encoding into the propositional network by attempting to organize and chunk [...]
A Tourist in the Uncanny Valley of Virtual Immersive Environments
Posted in Emerging Technologies, Virtual Immersive Environments, tagged Emerging Technologies, Second Life, Virtual Immersive Environments, virtual worlds on March 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
by Rich Mesch One of the more controversial aspects of Virtual Immersive Environments (VIEs) is the use of avatars to represent ourselves. That’s understandable—when we’re just icons on a WebEx menu, we don’t worry about what those icons say about us. And when we appear on a videoconference, we feel pretty good that we’re represented [...]
Why Sell Yourself Short? Position the Business Value of Your Work
Posted in Performance Improvement, tagged Performance Improvement on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Dawn Francis, Ed.D. Performance improvement begins with business goals. What are the strategic priorities of the organization? How do the tasks I perform in my job role help to satisfy those strategic priorities? Perhaps, we don’t ask ourselves these questions every day. So, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. When we [...]
My Style or Yours? The Hows and Whys of Human Interaction
Posted in Performance Improvement, Series, Talent Management, tagged Organizational Change, Performance Improvement, StrengthsFinder, Talent Management on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
by Sherry Engel Each year, at the beginning of my son’s basketball season, the coach gives a speech to all the parents. He says, “I promise if I have to discipline your child, I will always be fair. But that doesn’t mean that I will treat each child the same.” Now, at first glance, this [...]
