Recently I spoke with Corinne Cort, Â who served as the director of global learning for a leading-edge telecommunications company. She shared with me the following social learning example.
The wireless manufacturer was growing rapidly. As a result, they were hiring software and hardware engineers at an incredible pace. The organization’s formal learning programs could hardly keep [...]
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Managing Social Learning Initiatives: Top-Down or Grassroots?
Written by: Bill Sherman on Monday, 28 December 2009, 7:45 PM
Rethinking Learning from the Bottom Up
Written by: Bill Sherman on Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 7:36 PM
Recently, I’ve been rethinking how organizations approach learning programs. Historically, organizations designed learning initiatives from the top down. They identified a need and assigned resources to create training that fit a business objective–onboarding, new product training, soft-skills development.
These training programs often form the backbone of an organization. Some of them are developed internally while others [...]
2010/03/27: What Senior Leaders Want to Know about Social Learning
by Bill Sherman
2010/03/20: Design Outside of the Box
by Bill Sherman
2010/03/17: Followers or Friends?
by Bill Sherman
2010/03/13: Bi-Directional Collaboration
by Bill Sherman
2010/03/10: The Social LMS
by Bill Sherman
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Planned Books
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Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective by Unknown |
Current Books
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Ins by Elinor Ostrom |
Recent Books
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Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein |
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Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition by Ronald Burt |
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Strategy and the Fat Smoker; Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy by David H Maister |
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam |
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim |