I wrote about the OODA Loop and how we can improve L&D by adopting a continuous cycle of Observe, Orient, Decide and Act to extract knowledge that already exists in the organization and make it constantly available to people. This is the opposite of the old way of teaching which required rote memorization of static …
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Our education system is broken in that we are still teaching for rote memorization. This is crazy in the age of Google and Wikipedia. Today I want to introduce a simple way to start changing this. Have you ever heard of the OODA loop? U.S. Air Force Colonel John Boyd is widely recognized as the …
Making knowledge workers productive requires changes in attitude, not only on the part of the individual knowledge worker, but on the part of the whole organization. There are three more guidelines that Peter Drucker shared to broaden the scope of continuous learning beyond the individual to consider the broader organization. These are: Knowledge workers should …
In my last blog post, I introduced the ideas of Peter Drucker, that I came across in a compilation of his work. One of the entries addressed his insight into knowledge workers as mobile assets. I share my thoughts in this short video. According to Drucker, increasing the productivity of the knowledge worker requires addressing …
I have this book of excerpts from the renowned management consultant, educator, and author, Peter Drucker, that I picked up from one of those community libraries. I love the serendipity of book swaps. As I was paging through this one, I came across an entry in which he describes his view of knowledge workers as …
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Thie explainer video on blockchain demonstrates five principles of effective learning design superbly well.
Recently, Andrew was interviewed by Catalyst Media. In part two of the interview he discusses how corporate learning and development is looking for training partners and not training vendors.
This October, Andrew was interviewed by Catalyst Media. He shared some insights on the future landscape for training vendors.
Company values should be used as the basis for a decision framework that all employees use to respond to ethics and compliance risks they may face on a daily basis. Corporate training on ethics and compliance is the best medium to embed these values, engage with employees, and measure how effectively values are becoming behaviors.
