One of the things I’ve suggested adding to my client’s learning strategy is the 70-20-10 approach. I use the form of this developed by Morgan McCall, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo at CLC and popularised by Jay Cross, Charles Jennings and others in which 70% of development is provided through on-the-job experience, 20% through others including informal mentoring and coaching, and just 10% through traditional, formal training.
This version of the model was included in a slide presented by Robert Vulpis from Morgan Stanley at the HCI Learning and Leadership Development conference - the other recent partly virtual conference I’ve been reviewing:
There are also similar models which push the shift even further, for example at the HCI conference, Bob Cancalosi from GE Healthcare suggested these three amendments to the model:
There’s also this one shown by Carie Blum at the CLO Symposium:
Here social takes the top 70% (rather than the middle 20%) of learning.
Which ever model is used, I think it’s important that it is only ever seen as an indication or provocation of what a company should do - and not as a rule! (or as an objective to be achieved).
(Slide presented by Joe Garcia from Home Depot at the HCI conference)
I guess David Forman from the HCI was making a similar point in emphasising the need to think about 70-20-10 as a portfolio rather than percentages:
Well, I did write that the model has been popularised – and I’m sure that after all of this repetition that attendees at the HCI conference (and now you, I guess) must surely be able to remember it!
By the way, if you’re not sure what types of learning go in each separate category, I recommend Dan Pontefract’s schematic:
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There’s so much going on in the UK at the moment, with tomorrow’s Spending Review and Wednesday’s public sector pensions strike. And I still haven’t got around to posting on last week’s report from the High Pay Commission. But I’m out in South Africa at the moment and feel a bit cut off from these issues.
I’m at CERN today for a session that their head of recruitment, James Purvis (in the picture, sitting in the middle) has put together. The session is on recruitment and sourcing, not just on social recruiting, but that’s been the main focus this morning. There’s over 50 people here (over 30 who didn’t get squeezed in) and more people (from over 40 countries) watching on live streaming.
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I guess I should really be posting on the rest of the CIPD conference, not just my own interactive sessions (
The most interesting thing at the conference yesterday (of course) was obviously the 
