Friday, 27 April 2012

Some Philosophical Questions...


Over the next weeks, I'm going to ask and investigate some philosophical Enterprise Learning & Development questions, such as:

  • Does the 70/20/10 rule developed in 1996 still apply to enterprise learning and development in 2012? I conducted research of Enterprise RTO's and Enterprise Learning and Development Departments in 2009 with the assistance of the Enterprise RTO Association and the findings of that research are extremely interesting and show a widening of the gap between enterprise learning practices and institutional/private RTO methodologies and practices.

  • Why is it, that today's young enterprise learning and development practitioners seem to be missing the critical practical skills of organisational learning and organisational development that was such an important aspect of the L&D skill set? Why is it, that we are also seeing a lack of business acumen in new enterprise L&D practitioners? Where has the basic skills sets of enterprise-based L&D practitioners gone?

  • The ultimate goal of an Organisational Development Practitioner is to work themselves out of a job, that is to equip an organisation's leadership team with OD renewable tools, practices and systems that supports the enterprise's organisational development renewal and has been embedded within the Enterprise's learning and development department. Then why is it, that the OD function seem to have become separated from the enterprise learning and development function where development has always meant organisational development? And further, why is the OD practitioner now a permanent functional position that is apparently working separately and disconnected from the learning and development department?

  • And finally, what has happened to enterprise-based Instructional Design? More and more, I'm coming across design materials in enterprises that have been written by people who plainly do not understand business acumen and do not understand the concepts of enterprise learning. So where has great instructional design and creative writing gone?

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