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If corporate learning is broken, can technology fix it?

alison@beyondperformance.co.nz (Alison Marshall) — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 21:01:00 GMT

In a previous post we asked the question: is corporate learning broken, and if so, what can be done to fix it? This post looks at whether the solution lies in technology. The past few decades have been marked by constant upheaval in the corporate environment. We’ve seen major changes in everything from the type of roles we carry out at work and the technology we use, through to swings in management theory favoured by those in charge.

What the 70:20:10 debate tells us about the state of workplace learning?

clare@beyondperformance.co.nz (Clare Parkes) — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:00:00 GMT

Today’s workplaces are very different environments from what they were 20, or even 10 years ago. Not only has the nature of what we do at work changed, so has the way it’s done, the way it’s managed and the way we’re remunerated.

A pathway to success - an organisational development case study

clare@beyondperformance.co.nz (Clare Parkes) — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:00:00 GMT

Learning is the backbone to our business but it’s not often we also get to learn on the job! During a recent supply chain project with a large NZ employer, we were lucky enough to gain a greater understanding of the intricacies involved in receiving, moving and exporting food product.

Why we need to start talking about fixing workplace learning

alison@beyondperformance.co.nz (Alison Marshall) — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 02:01:56 GMT

The writing is on the wall: the way organisations learn currently is under the microscope, some feel it’s broken and there’s a need to fix it. The signs have been there for some time – the massive changes that have swept through organisations over the past few decades have brought major disruption to just about every aspect of business.

70:20:10 - is it a strategy for organisational development?

alison@beyondperformance.co.nz (Alison Marshall) — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:48:00 GMT

Carry out a quick search on 70:20:10 and the discussion will be laid out before you with supporters and detractors, as well as those sitting on the fence. It’s a lively debate based on a theory with origins almost 50 years old when Dr Allen Tough opined 70 per cent of all learning projects are self-directed and 80 per cent, possibly more, of corporate learning is informal.

Human Centred Design bridges the Organisation Development gap

clare@beyondperformance.co.nz (Clare Parkes) — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 23:43:00 GMT

The way Organisational Development (OD) is initiated and deployed for any organisation is changing, and much of this evolution is down to the growing influence of human-centred design.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that people need to be at the centre of organisational development, but up until recently the model has been more driven by those in senior management rather than the employees themselves.

Talking about a right brain revolution

clare@beyondperformance.co.nz (Clare Parkes) — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 21:07:04 GMT

Sounds a bit political but it’s not – the opinion we are putting forward is that we will need to change the way we think about the future.

For decades, if not centuries, our organisational thought process has been dominated by left brain strengths, those that are logical, sequential, rational, analytical and objective in nature.

Will the left brain be left out?

clare@beyondperformance.co.nz (Clare Parkes) — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 22:00:00 GMT

It’s not long to our Think Tank event on the 5^th July that we’re co-hosting with Herrmann New Zealand – the whole brain thinking people. We’ve purposefully challenged you to consider a point of view about whether left brainers may not have much of a role to play in the future workforce.

Communicate WITH people

clare@beyondlg.com (Perform) — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:00:49 GMT

Interesting title, huh? Of course, we communicate with each other all the time, but what I mean here is HOW we communicate with each other, especially when we need to get important messages through.

Does culture really eat strategy for breakfast?

clare@beyondlg.com (Perform) — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:06:14 GMT

Talking amongst my peers recently, I realised that many of us have heard this phrase before and instinctively think we know what it means: that culture is more important than strategy. Let’s delve a little bit deeper into why this might be true…