Organizations, including the federal government, are bringing serious gaming into play to drive long term change in both competence and conviction. In doing so they are rebuilding their formal and informal learning and assessment capabilities to take advantage of social media, games and simulations, among other new approaches. This web-brief is the first in a series on the subject of serious gaming and will touch on the phenomenon of serious gaming itself, as well as moving to principles for training an adult workforce, competency based learning, educational simulations, and the potential for change in federal agencies’ approach to performance support. 

Serious Games: An Introduction to Game-Based Learning

Given the difficulty many of us face in executing on top priorities on top of managing the day-to-day running of the business or department, we pose the question “How do you hold people accountable for executing on the organization’s plan?”  In this second in a series of interviews with Patrick Leddin of Franklin Covey we take a closer look at the concept of “Cadence of Accountability”.  Patrick will elaborate on the need to achieving an organizational rhythm through identifying and using lead measures to achieve progress against goals in a way that encourages and rewards employee engagement.   

CADENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: MOVING YOUR TEAM TO SUCCESS

Description: In Part I we heard about the most effective leadership approach for staying in touch with a stressed out workforce challenged to maintain performance efficiency in a dynamic operational environment, namely our federal operational environment.  
In Part II we explore another aspect of Leadership from the Heart:  The Importance of Listening.  We’ll hear about why and how this approach is best for reaching a committed but potentially overwhelmed employee population. Listen in as Ernie Paskey and Seymour Adler share their thinking on this important subject.  


Leadership from the Heart Part II

A New Realities Web-Brief with Clark Aldrich
Clark, one of the foremost educational simulation and interface designers in the world speaks with us about serious games, insights on the most effective way to align communication to employees applying  principles from his book “Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education “.

The Evolution of Serious Games, Part II

A short interview with Clark Quinn on trends in performance support recorded between sessions at the eLearning Guild Performance Support Symposium 2013.

Social, Mobile and the Performance Ecosystem

Executing on organizational top priorities continues to be one of leadership’s greatest challenges. This has never been more the case than in the current federal government environment with reduced resources, increased oversight, and heightened priorities. This is the first in a series of web-briefs where we explore the dynamic of executing against top priorities in the midst of an already demanding day-to-day work environment. We will discuss underlying principles and a framework that includes identifying the most important goals to achieve agency mission, identifying and using lead measures to make progress against those goals, keeping a compelling scoreboard, and developing a cadence of accountability.

New Realities Web-Brief with FranklinCovey

We’ve known for a long time that a career with the federal government is not the same as it used to be.  At one time, civil servants accepted not so great pay in exchange for job security.  Today, government jobs are less secure than they ever were.  In this first in a series of though leader web-briefs Ernest Paskey and Seymour Adler from consulting firm Aon Hewitt talk with us about what type of leader it takes to deal with a stressed out workforce while making the tough decisions required to keep the government running efficiently.

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