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Comment on Deloitte University— What were they thinking? by Current Deloitte employee

Current Deloitte employee — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 07:26:36 +0000

Based on the article and some comments above, its worth adding that Deloitte refers to all its employees as Leaders or Potential Leaders. DU is certainly not for the top 1%, more like “all customer facing staff” which makes up the vast majority of the firm. There have been two more DU’s built from the same model including DU EMEA (Belgium) and DU Asia (Singapore).

The DU’s are used for internal Training, Networking, team-building and occasionally Client Meetings and Workshops so its not a narrow use facility rather than a broad use one. In Addition it now forms part of our Client facing Branding for the hundreds of Surveys, Reviews and thought leadership that we publish each year, more here: http://dupress.com/articles/deloitte-university-press/

For Roger: I hope this explains the purpose of DU a bit better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8A-N8C7SQs

Lastly, I acknowledge our former employees comments about burn-out. The nature of the Job is almost the definition of hard work and often bad decisions are made by busy People in difficult circumstances. As a former SOF soldier it was nice to see when I joined Deloitte we didnt have a Monopoly on it!

PS. Sorry for random capital letters, machine language issues.

Comment on Want to go mobile for learning and support? by Isidra Sterns

Isidra Sterns — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:12:29 +0000

Thank you so much for this. I needed to read this.!!

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Comment on The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network by My PLN Journal | amysplnjournal

My PLN Journal | amysplnjournal — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:54:59 +0000

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Comment on The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network by Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:36:29 +0000

Does this come with an English translation for technologically illiterate people? I don’t know enough to be able to follow the given steps to make a PLN.

Comment on Instructional designers aren’t ready for their interviews by Ed Murray

Ed Murray — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 21:12:14 +0000

My last contract was with an Irish university. I was a perfect match, satisfying not only the essential criteria but the desirable criteria, too. Furthermore, I was an SME in the subject area, something not even requested. The job was a nightmare. The academics refused to engage with me, nobody gave me content to work with, and when I suggested I provide the content and they vet it, nothing happened.

After a year of trying to discuss this with the project leader, I realized they had really wanted a web developer. Confronting him, he admitted this was so but HR had forced the ID job spec on them.

What had got me the job was that he fancied a cute little JavaScript snippet I had included in my demo of leaves drifting down the screen (you know the one, originally snowflakes).

So, in my case, I aced the interview. But they were interviewing for a job they didn’t have.

PS: I’m in complete agreement with Kevin Smith’s observations. I’m rarely interviewed by anyone other than some 30-something woman who is just a go-between with whom establishing rapport is wasted effort.

Comment on Trending in Workplace Learning 2015…. by Trending in Workplace Learning 2015…. | teaching knowledge and creativity

Trending in Workplace Learning 2015…. | teaching knowledge and creativity — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:47:31 +0000

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Comment on Invisibilizing Workplace Learning by Kristie Mubarak

Kristie Mubarak — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:24:51 +0000

I think this is SPOT ON! If we are in the right places, having the right kind of influence visibility is unnecessary! We will be affecting REAL change in our organizations. Great read!

Comment on Instructional designers aren’t ready for their interviews by Jon Kia

Jon Kia — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:15:54 +0000

Another issue I have often encountered is in regards to proprietary instructional design developed at former jobs. For example, a very capable instructional designer has only worked for one company, and he/she signed an NDA prohibiting them from disclosing any instructional design content they developed (all of which would be necessary to include in their portfolio for future reference/job interviews). Let’s also say that this candidate only possesses the software to develop above satisfactory instructional design content on their work computer, so they cannot create anything new and innovative prior to the interview. How do you work around such a scenario?

Comment on Trending in Workplace Learning 2015…. by Sterling Ledet

Sterling Ledet — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:57:03 +0000

My comments are that the rise of SaaS based knowledge management tools deserve a mention. The competitive advantage of leveraging curation is also important. I think it's important to understand how the use of these tools effect lifelong learning. When I look at the state of learning when Adler taught us How to Read a Book compared to today, I think the most important trend is the acceleration of the required velocity of learning in order to be competitive. A comparable system to Adler's work today would have to teach "How to process an idea", and the value that tools like Evernote, Dropbox, and of course Google, bring to any thought pattern is incredible. It seems that as our learning thought leaders realize that the hierarchical pattern recognition algorithms behind logical, conscious thought can be harnessed and amplified systematically to produce people who basically have accelerators attached to their brains and cater their presentation to that audience, the strategic competitive advantage of organizations oriented around modern learning best practices will continue to widen over slower moving competitors. Those that don't have the ability to use such tools are inherently less able to process today's modern rapid information flows and are severely disadvantaged. There's no way I could have personally managed the amount of information I leverage today using the tools and thought management systems of earlier in my career, and I'll wager to say most of the readers of this blog probably feel the same way.