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Virtual Collaboration: Engaging Learning Through Technology
Virtual collaboration, which uses technology to bring people together, can help people achieve their goals. Learning and development leaders should use virtual collaboration to help people learn, practice and apply new knowledge and skills.
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MaineGeneral Health: Teaching the Art of Patient Care
MaineGeneral Health is the parent corporation of a network of care hospitals, physician practices, rehabilitation centers, long-term nursing care and assisted-living and retirement communities. The organization’s mission is to enhance the health of the people in the Kennebec Valley region of Maine. In order to achieve that mission, the organization needed to improve its culture,…
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Social-Network Analysis: Is It the Next Big Thing?
Would you believe the next big thing in learning got its start 76 years ago? That’s when Jacob Moreno invented the sociogram, a diagram of points and lines designed to illustrate relationships and social interactions among people. From this start, social-network analysis has continued to attract the attention of philosophers, sociologists and statisticians who look…
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NCR: The Innovative Talent Factory
NCR Corp. has a long history in innovation, leadership and learning. In 1884, John H. Patterson founded the National Cash Register Company, maker of the first mechanical cash registers. Patterson is clearly one of the leading innovators in American business history, not just in technology, but in teaching and building talent. Patterson was also a…
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Implementing Learning-How-to-Learn Strategies
How can a learning organization facilitate learning? Perhaps the answer is as simple as returning to the fundamentals of education, which focus the learner on the "how" of learning.
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Employees Can’t Get No Respect
Aretha Franklin knows it. So did Rodney Dangerfield. If executives want to gain loyalty from their employees and increase their productivity, it all comes down to a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T. According to a survey from Sirota Survey Intelligence and authors
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What Does the Future of Learning and Development Hold?
Senior learning and development executives, much like their counterparts in technology and other people-centric industries, are always talking or at least thinking about the next big thing. That doesn’t necessarily mean the latest gadgets or innovative ne
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Business Drivers for Real-Time Learning
rom the front line to the boardroom, there is a growing awareness among managers that significant productivity gains remain to be made in the area of human capital. Specifically, there is an increased focus by businesses to improve the quality of their wo












