Portfolio Archives: White papers

The State of Online Learning for Enterprises

Learning and Development professionals are facing increasing forces of change. New technologies and the emergence of artificial intelligence hold major implications for the way L&D provides services to its stakeholders and internal clients. New understanding of the power of social and informal learning is influencing the role L&D needs to play. Increasing pressures from leadership for L&D to deliver tangible value is demanding new and more effective solutions. Digital transformation is at the top of everyone’s agenda and are occupying L&D’s mind and resources.

There is no option to stand still.

Making Mavericks Mainstream

Today’s economies are driven by continual innovation, the rapid evolution of fresh business models. Forward-leaning and non-conforming leaders are increasingly dissatisfied with the status quo collaboration that is mostly tactical and transactional in nature: e.g. who should I speak to about XYZ? They are looking to lift the cap from today’s productivity plateau, and increasingly recognize that enterprise collaboration is, at best, offering tactical benefits, and at worst, actually impeding worker productivity. So what is the key to driving high-impact collaboration that drives productivity and innovation?

Performance Support: The Short Way Home

Performance Support The Short Way Home   Author: Jos Arets Performance support provides assistance so we can work better, and we learn from working. Learning support on the other hand enhances learning as an activity that is distinct from working. Performance support is focused on supporting working. Learning support is focused on improving formal learning.…

High Performance for 2020 and Beyond: Strategies and Technologies That Work

High Performance for 2020 and Beyond: Strategies and Technologies That Work Leveraging Intellectual Capital to Quantify Organizational Performance   Authors: Charles Jennings and Bob Danna In yesterday’s knowledge economy, codified knowledge harbored by individual employees was considered the key value creator. However, this model is being rapidly replaced by today’s more powerful era of the expert. The era of the…

Experiences that Develop

Experiences that Develop   Authors: Charles Jennings and Joachim Nisgaard This paper provides an insight into the way leaders and managers learn and develop in a leading-edge, global company. It examines the importance of learning through experience, and the types of experiences that have the most lasting impact. A leading European energy company undertook the…

New Value Creation with Four Business Models for L&D

New Value Creation with Four Business Models for L&D If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu   Author: Jos Arets For many years, Learning and Development (L&D) has been trying to demonstrate the value of learning. It has modernised the services it provides, reorganised its distribution methods for greater efficiency, and professionalised…

Designing Learning that Works Using 70:20:10 Effectively

Designing Learning that Works Using 70:20:10 Effectively   Authors: Jos Arets and Charles Jennings More and more businesses are adopting 70:20:10 to help build organizational strength. However, a question often posed is whether the approach is a theory of workplace learning, a way of cutting down on training costs, or a mantra to be followed slavishly. Alternatively,…

The 70:20:10 Methodology

The 70:20:10 Methodology   Author: Jos Arets Competency models and competency management play an important role in the world of Learning and Development. This is often based on the idea that there is a positive relationship between competencies and organizational results. In this article we will first focus on the value and limitations of a…

70:20:10 Into Action

70:20:10 Into Action   Authors: Jos Arets, Vivian Heijnen and Charles Jennings In this edition of 70:20:10 into action: A 70:20:10 Framework Primer Start with the 70. Plan for the 100 The 70:20:10 Performance Support Storm The Book: 702010 towards 100% performance 70:20:10 Expert Programme The 70:20:10 Institute References   Do you want to read…