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207 - Implementers Must Drive the Learning Agenda; e-Coaching Update: Pounds and Lessons Learned; Digitally Busy Research Data
July 16, 2001
#207 - - - July 16 2001- - - 41,154 Readers
*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***
e-Learning, Training and e-Collaboration Updates
Published by The MASIE Center: http://www.masie.com
Host of TechLearn 2001 - Oct 28 - 31 - Orlando, Florida
1. Great Learning Debate at TechLearn Hosted by Arthur Miller
2. Implementers Must Drive the Learning Agenda!
3. e-Coaching Update: Pounds and Lessons Learned
4. Digitally Busy Research Data
1. Great Learning Debate at TechLearn Hosted by Arthur Miller: I am
pleased to announce a "Great Learning Debate" at TechLearn 2001. The
Debate will follow a Socratic model with a variety of learners from
diverse organizations, Chief Learning Officers and business executives.
We will aim to highlight what learning and training is like from different
perspectives. For example, how do learners actually value or appreciate
investments in training. Or, how is e-Learning viewed from the worker
point of view. Arthur Miller, Faculty of Harvard Law School and host of a
series of PBS panels on the role of media will moderate this debate.
2. Implementers Must Drive the Learning Agenda! Last week in Ireland, I
interviewed several CEO's of e-Learning companies including Smartforce,
WBT Systems and Thinq. It was intriguing that each of the CEO's felt
that it was time for Implementing Organizations, the actual companies
deploying e-Learning for their employees or customers had to "take back
the agenda for training and technology". The CEO's agreed that customers
had to drive the agenda rather than be driven by the latest set of
features or genre of tools announced by vendors. The training executives
in the room, from 18 different countries agreed that it was way too easy
to default to the vendor's view of the learning world. The MASIE Center
believes that the agenda for e-Learning must be driven by corporate
strategies that are aligned with business needs and should be immune from
the latest press releases or a new set of 3 or 4 letter terms hearlding
new software models for learning tracking or management.
3. e-Coaching Update: Pounds and Lessons Learned In a previous TRENDS,
I talked about my experience with an e-Coach that I was using for health
and weight improvement. I have had over 400 messages from readers, asking
for an update, so here goes:
* My e-Coach and I dialogue about 3 times a day, via email or Microsoft
Messenger.
* I enter my eating and exercise information into a shared, web-based
database, so that she can track my behavior patterns in real time (and
occasionally send me a note with advice or questions.)
* I have lost 22 pounds and lowered by blood pressure and cholesterol.
* It is a learning process for both of us to see how and when to use
different media formats to communicate. While most of our dialogue is
via email, we have had a few phone conversations to deepen the trust
level.
* Managing the coaching process from my coach's end has been interesting.
I recently spoke with Scott Blanchard from coaching.com who has introduced
systems to support the coaching process.
* I believe that we are just at the beginning of this approach to learning
and change.
* I am now serving as a coach to five Chief Learning Officers, to
experience the process from the other side. We are working on assistance
for strategies and organizational change, using a coaching vs. consulting
model.
* Marshall Goldsmith, an expert on Coaching, will be modeling a live
e-Coaching session during TechLearn 2001, originating from London, with a
participant in the audience as the "coachee".
4. Digitally Busy Research Results: Here is the summary of the Executive
Summary for our last scan on how busy folks are in this digital world.
Thanks to the more than 2,400 readers that responded:
1) How many emails do you get on an average business day?
0 to 10 7.7%
11 to 20 21.7%
21 to 35 27.3%
36 to 50 24.5%
51 to 100 15.0%
More: 3.8%
2) Approximately what percentage of an average work day do you spend
'digitally connected' with business associates? (Email, phone, instant
messaging, etc.)
More than 80% 17.8%
66% to 80% 14.6%
46% to 65% 17.1%
26% to 45% 21.1%
11% to 25% 23.1%
Less than 10% 6.2%
3) If the electricity were to go off for one day at your organization,
what affect would this have on your stress level?
Increase my level of stress 58.1%
Decrease my level of stress 17.2%
No change to my level of stress 24.6%
Complete results and perspectives are available to readers of our Learning
Decisions Interactive Research Newsletter
http://www.learningdecisions.com
UPCOMING MASIE CENTER EVENTS: http://www.masie.com
TechLearn 2001: Oct 28 - 31, 2001 (Jack Welch, CEO of GE Keynoter) in
Orlando, Florida
Skills for e-Trainers: Masie Center e-LAB in September in Saratoga
Springs, NY
*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***
e-Learning, Training and e-Collaboration Updates
Published by The MASIE Center: http://www.masie.com
Host of TechLearn 2001 - Oct 28 - 31 - Orlando, Florida
1. Great Learning Debate at TechLearn Hosted by Arthur Miller
2. Implementers Must Drive the Learning Agenda!
3. e-Coaching Update: Pounds and Lessons Learned
4. Digitally Busy Research Data
1. Great Learning Debate at TechLearn Hosted by Arthur Miller: I am
pleased to announce a "Great Learning Debate" at TechLearn 2001. The
Debate will follow a Socratic model with a variety of learners from
diverse organizations, Chief Learning Officers and business executives.
We will aim to highlight what learning and training is like from different
perspectives. For example, how do learners actually value or appreciate
investments in training. Or, how is e-Learning viewed from the worker
point of view. Arthur Miller, Faculty of Harvard Law School and host of a
series of PBS panels on the role of media will moderate this debate.
2. Implementers Must Drive the Learning Agenda! Last week in Ireland, I
interviewed several CEO's of e-Learning companies including Smartforce,
WBT Systems and Thinq. It was intriguing that each of the CEO's felt
that it was time for Implementing Organizations, the actual companies
deploying e-Learning for their employees or customers had to "take back
the agenda for training and technology". The CEO's agreed that customers
had to drive the agenda rather than be driven by the latest set of
features or genre of tools announced by vendors. The training executives
in the room, from 18 different countries agreed that it was way too easy
to default to the vendor's view of the learning world. The MASIE Center
believes that the agenda for e-Learning must be driven by corporate
strategies that are aligned with business needs and should be immune from
the latest press releases or a new set of 3 or 4 letter terms hearlding
new software models for learning tracking or management.
3. e-Coaching Update: Pounds and Lessons Learned In a previous TRENDS,
I talked about my experience with an e-Coach that I was using for health
and weight improvement. I have had over 400 messages from readers, asking
for an update, so here goes:
* My e-Coach and I dialogue about 3 times a day, via email or Microsoft
Messenger.
* I enter my eating and exercise information into a shared, web-based
database, so that she can track my behavior patterns in real time (and
occasionally send me a note with advice or questions.)
* I have lost 22 pounds and lowered by blood pressure and cholesterol.
* It is a learning process for both of us to see how and when to use
different media formats to communicate. While most of our dialogue is
via email, we have had a few phone conversations to deepen the trust
level.
* Managing the coaching process from my coach's end has been interesting.
I recently spoke with Scott Blanchard from coaching.com who has introduced
systems to support the coaching process.
* I believe that we are just at the beginning of this approach to learning
and change.
* I am now serving as a coach to five Chief Learning Officers, to
experience the process from the other side. We are working on assistance
for strategies and organizational change, using a coaching vs. consulting
model.
* Marshall Goldsmith, an expert on Coaching, will be modeling a live
e-Coaching session during TechLearn 2001, originating from London, with a
participant in the audience as the "coachee".
4. Digitally Busy Research Results: Here is the summary of the Executive
Summary for our last scan on how busy folks are in this digital world.
Thanks to the more than 2,400 readers that responded:
1) How many emails do you get on an average business day?
0 to 10 7.7%
11 to 20 21.7%
21 to 35 27.3%
36 to 50 24.5%
51 to 100 15.0%
More: 3.8%
2) Approximately what percentage of an average work day do you spend
'digitally connected' with business associates? (Email, phone, instant
messaging, etc.)
More than 80% 17.8%
66% to 80% 14.6%
46% to 65% 17.1%
26% to 45% 21.1%
11% to 25% 23.1%
Less than 10% 6.2%
3) If the electricity were to go off for one day at your organization,
what affect would this have on your stress level?
Increase my level of stress 58.1%
Decrease my level of stress 17.2%
No change to my level of stress 24.6%
Complete results and perspectives are available to readers of our Learning
Decisions Interactive Research Newsletter
http://www.learningdecisions.com
UPCOMING MASIE CENTER EVENTS: http://www.masie.com
TechLearn 2001: Oct 28 - 31, 2001 (Jack Welch, CEO of GE Keynoter) in
Orlando, Florida
Skills for e-Trainers: Masie Center e-LAB in September in Saratoga
Springs, NY
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