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Heading to ATD24 in New Orleans?    Why not step out for a moment and head down to the Acorn Gallery? (aka the Jillian Mac Fine Art Gallery.)    Our team invites you to take a break from the conference and explore the local New Orleans art scene at Not-Another-Happy-Hour.    If you want a chance to share your biggest takeaways from the conference with your peers and colleagues, Not-Another-Happy-Hour is the place to be.    Register today to save your spot at this one-of-a-kind experience on Tuesday, May 21 at 6PM. #ATD24 #plms #performancemanagement #learninganddevelopment 

At Acorn, we believe in capabilities first. Capabilities are the building blocks of both learning *and* performance, and building them is the only way to achieve business goals. But if you don’t—or can’t—measure them, then you’re in trouble. You won’t be able to use capabilities as a tangible guide to improving organisational performance. And you won’t be able to set relevant, targeted learning to fit your business needs. We know getting started can be daunting, so we’ve put together a handy capability assessment template for you to download and adapt to your business right here: https://loom.ly/qb2Tyls #plms #capabilitybuilding #capabilityassessment #performancemanagement #learninganddevelopment

Skills on their own just don’t cut it. We believe in capabilities. Why? Capabilities include skills, as well as the knowledge, behaviours, processes, and tools that combine to deliver business outcomes. 🏋️♂️ They’re the backbone of L&D and performance management 💥 They’re the only data-backed method of learning that directly impacts business performance. 🗺️ They outline how someone should use their skills, knowledge, and behaviours to get their job done. Skills are important, but they don’t drive business performance the way capabilities do. If you want effective learning and performance management in your org, you need to put the emphasis on capabilities, not skills alone. #plms #performancemanagement #capabilitybuilding #learninganddevelopment

New Release! 🚨 This week we’ve added a new pricing model for payments, allowing you to offer different prices for people who purchase in large quantities. The more units you buy, the lower the cost per unit will be! You can also say goodbye to adding new users manually! We now have the create user node in Momentum workflow, which allows you to create new users based on the details filled in from a form. Wondering what else we have? 🌟 We’ve improved the external catalogue to help users return to a piece of external content after logging in/registering via the content page. 🌟 There’s a new widget for user dashboard to keep track of your development plan and progress! 🌟 Those using our Acorn-to-Acorn integration to share content can now configure what content goes to which integration! Want more information? You can check out the full details and list of fixes in the full release notes here: https://loom.ly/wW_QxN4 #plms #learninganddevelopment

We recently had a chat with Grace Savides, a Market Research Analyst at G2, about the PLMS and the challenge of linking learning and performance. Grace astutely calls out that many vendors offer learning and performance within their *suite* of products with a shared line of data, but that they aren’t actually *embedding* learning into performance. They’re effectively being kept separate. We strongly believe that this is part of the reason it’s been so hard for people to truly link learning and performance in a way that actually impacts learners and organisations. The PLMS is the first thing to bring them together in the same conversation. A huge thank you to Grace for being among the first analysts to check out the PLMS and really consider what the separation of learning and performance means for HR. Please have a read of the full article below! https://lnkd.in/gyEVZfMe #plms #performancemanagement #capabilitybuilding #learninganddevelopment

If you handed someone a grain of dirt and told them to plant a magnificent garden with it, the chances are they’d probably be overwhelmed.    Too often, we treat L&D the same way.    When it comes to analysing L&D strategy, we tend to start with the small, like whether learners enjoyed their training. That’s *too* small.    We should start with the outcome we want first and work backwards from there, ending with how you can build engagement and satisfaction with learning.    Chief Learning Officer at Better Every Day Studios Matt Gjertsen talks with Blake Proberts about why we should start at the end of the L&D strategy to ensure we get the outcomes we want.    You can listen to the whole conversation here: https://lnkd.in/gt9gR6Q2    #plms #learninganddevelopment #capabilitybuilding #performancemanagement 

Did you know that a whopping 33% of new hires quit their jobs within the first 6 months? Did you know most of that turnover happens in the first 90 days? That’s pretty crazy, especially when you factor in the cost of recruitment and onboarding. We understand the importance of getting those first 3 months right—and we know that doing that can be hard. To help you, we’ve created a first 90 days plan template for you to download and adapt to your business needs. Just follow the link below! https://loom.ly/SMucOMo #plms #performancemanagement #learninganddevelopment #capabilitybuilding

ATTENTION 🚨 Want impactful learning in your org? Then you need capabilities. Want tangible performance uplift in your org? Then you need capabilities. Capabilities are the building blocks for effective learning and performance conversations. The only problem? We know a lot of businesses don’t know how to build them. Our fearless leader Blake Proberts has put together an online capability-building course based on his near decade of experience helping people find, assign, and develop capabilities. You only need to dedicate one hour a week for 2-3 weeks for a self-paced and obligation-free insight into developing capabilities for your business. Want to find out more? Check out the link below and start learning! https://loom.ly/3ZW6d8s #capabilitybuilding #performancemanagement #learninganddevelopment #plms

Psst! 🤫 The secret ingredient to effective learning and performance management? Capabilities. These are the skills, knowledge, behaviours, tools and processes that combine to deliver organisational outcomes. Learning and performance management without capabilities is like having pizza without the dough: Kind of a mess. You need capability-based learning in order to drive performance improvement. #plms #performancemanagement #capabilitybuilding #learninganddevelopment

How many times can we say it? “Performance management and learning can’t be separated anymore.” It just leads to pointless training, wasted resources, and empty performance conversations. And that just demotivates employees. Seriously, we’ve heard some war stories. But when you link learning and performance management you get: 📈 Learning that helps you reach performance goals 🎯 Performance management that leads to targeted development They’re the power couple of organisational success — in isolation, they’re good, but they’re truly great when they’re together. And why would you settle for anything less than great? #plms #performancemanagement #learninganddevelopment #capabilitybuilding