The ELCE 2013 Call-for-Papers will be open until March 15th, 2013.  The Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo will be held on August 26th to 28th, 2013 at the Anaheim Convention Center.  Please go to this link to submit your speaker topic: http://www.2elearning.com/fileadmin/elce2013/ELCE_Callforpapers2013.html.   You can choose any range of topics in any of these 4 categories, and/or you can facilitate a…

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Exploring the “Eight Truths” of Social Learning By Pam Boiros For a few years, I have been speaking and writing on social learning.  About two years ago, coinciding with the commercial launch of Skillsoft® inGenius® – our unique social learning solution layer — I wrote my original post on the Skillsoft blog entitled Eight Truths of Social Learning.   It…

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Creating a Learning Culture to Inspire, Motivate & Innovate By Joe Rigney at Exec Comm Everyone agrees: companies today recognize the value of developing their employees’ communication skills. Those with these skills better compete and win in global markets. However, mastering and measuring these skills is often challenging.  With offices in New York and San Francisco, Exec|Comm is a communications consulting…

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Lessons Learned from a Global Distance Learning Program By Bob Bodine, Medtronic, Inc., and Jim Nepp, Capella Education Company Our approach: we will convert the simple knowledge level elements of our new hire training curriculum to a blended approach.  Not all as e-learning but some and we can avoid people having to travel to Minneapolis for all those classes and…

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Introducing a Community of Practice at Bechtel by Paul DrexlerGlobal Learning and Development, Bechtel Corporation CoPs should be voluntary, so a key challenge is to establish value to an audience that is already overburdened with required activities. I usually start with the assumption that a large part of the audience will be skeptical at first, and see the CoP as…

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Leaders Need to Be Teachers by Vicki Halsey, Ph.D., Vice President of Applied Learning, The Ken Blanchard Companies, Author, Brilliance by Design A lot of leaders are disappointed these days. They work hard to deliver clear messages to their people, but often when they follow up, they realize little has changed.  It’s a pattern that I’ve seen many times. Why does…

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