Do the extreme makeover. That is where I am landing. In the past few weeks I've had conversations with both for-profit organizations and nonprofits. The substance of the conversation is always around "getting more" out of training, or how the training organization can become a more integrated and valuable piece of the business. And my … Continue reading Get more from training – or give up and do an extreme makeover?
Tag: change
Taking the stairs
The coffee is kicking in this a.m. and I was struck by the points-of-view represented in two links shared by people I follow on Twitter. I happened to open these links in succession. The first (shared by KM blogger Jack Vinson) is a thoughtful piece from John Bordeaux of Bordeaux Associates: On Change, or Why … Continue reading Taking the stairs
Bracketing change: Standards, institutionalized practices and experiments
I have often been in the situation where an organization is keen on sharing or expanding the use of [best] practices or establishing "standards" to improve some type of performance. I put [best] in brackets because my bias is that "best" is really situational and relative; what is best for one organization may not be … Continue reading Bracketing change: Standards, institutionalized practices and experiments
LEED: The success case worth mining for insight
Worth the review: The Green Building Impact Report. I've just begun a read of this, but am already seeing this as an exemplar case study in large-scale, cross-organizational change. We need a LEED effort for food...for transportation... What is most fascinating to me (and I need to dive into this further) is the fact that … Continue reading LEED: The success case worth mining for insight
Translating mission into practice
It starts with language, persistence and patience. Over coffee this past Friday with one of the founders of The Talking Farm I found myself repeating this point-of-view as we were discussing what it would take to make a state-wide change toward more sustainable practices in growing, processing, distributing and consuming food. There are of course … Continue reading Translating mission into practice
Jeff Merrell 