Adventures in Corporate Education

Check out this list of competencies for an HPT professional as listed in the HPI Essentials book (by ASTD press):

Analysis Skill
Business Knowledge
Change Management Skill
Facilitation Skill
HPI Understanding
Influencing Skill
Project Management Skill
Questioning Skill
Relationship-Building Skill
Systematic Thinking Skill

It also lists these attributes:

Behavioral Flexibility
Comfort with Ambiguity
Objectivity
Self-Confidence

That sounds like what people want social media managers to have! If you are looking for [...]

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I’m going to make this post quick, because I’m actually supposed to be working on a gap analysis for one of my classes.
A colleague and I have been presenting this presentation:
Social Media Ed Svcs Overview
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Basically, remember to:

Tie this to business needs
Show how it enables informal learning
Explain it will still require resources [...]

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Gartner recently released its hype report about social media. It is interesting to see that some of the tools we are advocating for Learning actvities are slipping into the “trough of disillusionment“. This is the time in a technology lifecycle when a product fails to meet the hype, and people stop talking about it as [...]

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A couple of comments to me this week are prompting this post. Someone in my senior management made a comment that I am very active in social media but I don’t really use it to learn. And someone on twitter asked me the question about EMC|ONE, (EMC’s internal social media site):

Here was my answer to [...]

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Today there are stories everyplace about social media sites such as Facebook. Everyone I know is on it – my kids, my mom, workmates, classmates, and old friends from college & high school. I love reconnecting with old friends, and playing Mafia Wars (I am not going to deny it).
So is Facebook just for fun [...]

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