The silo is a metaphor for a section of a company that is isolated from others. This is symptomatic of command-and-control hierarchies, where managers guard their fiefdoms. My suggestion with the picture is that training has entered its own silo. I advocate that trainers become performance consultants and business problem solvers, i.e., escape the silo. I woke up this morning with the image in my head.
Awes, as I commented earlier, silo is a metaphor for a section of a company that is isolated from others. This is symptomatic of command-and-control hierarchies, where managers guard their fiefdoms. My suggestion with the picture is that training has entered its own silo.
The way around this is breaking through silo walls to deal with other departments. Web 2.0 technologies are great for this. IMs and wikis can penetrate silo walls.
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What is the significance of the picture in relation to training
The silo is a metaphor for a section of a company that is isolated from others. This is symptomatic of command-and-control hierarchies, where managers guard their fiefdoms. My suggestion with the picture is that training has entered its own silo. I advocate that trainers become performance consultants and business problem solvers, i.e., escape the silo. I woke up this morning with the image in my head.
A friend of mine just did his Master’s research on this type of thing. I think he even used your book on informal learning for much of his study.
Silo image
Presentation image
What’s in your mind?
Tom, invite your friend to drop by and leave a comment.
jay
What is the exact meaning of SILO. As I understand, it is isolation of processes in an organization.
What is breaking the SILOs of an organization and what steps we needto require to brek the SILOs.
Appreciate your answers…
Awes, as I commented earlier, silo is a metaphor for a section of a company that is isolated from others. This is symptomatic of command-and-control hierarchies, where managers guard their fiefdoms. My suggestion with the picture is that training has entered its own silo.
The way around this is breaking through silo walls to deal with other departments. Web 2.0 technologies are great for this. IMs and wikis can penetrate silo walls.
Thanks Jay. I will bother you with some questions?
In an organization, normally people adhere to corporate politics to climb ladders. whether it is a good thing or bad? I believe it to be bad.
How to avoid it and build rapport
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