Twitter FavesJane Hart posted a tongue-in-cheek video on 10 reasons to ban social media with the caveat, “Be careful who you show this video to – they might actually believe it ”. One comment to her blog post really struck me: Strange thing is that I wasn’t laughing as he is far too near the truth [...]
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In PKM in a Nutshell, I linked my various posts on personal knowledge management to make the framework more coherent. My ITA colleague, Jane Hart has just released an extensive resource that correlates nicely with the PKM framework. It is called A WORKING SMARTER RESOURCE: A Practical Guide to using Social Media in Your Job [...]
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Formal training just won’t cut it any more as the primary means by which we prepare and adapt in order to get work done. Training isn’t dead, it’s just not enough, and cannot be the only tool in the box. — As Jay Cross stated in a recent interview: Formal learning can be somewhat effective [...]
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The Working Smarter Fieldbook (June 2010 version) is now out. This is a collaborative effort by all of us at the Internet Time Alliance and was spearheaded by Jay Cross. Our intention is get the conversation focused on what’s important for business, including the training & learning department – working smarter. Learning is just a [...]
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As a result of economic changes, some workers are getting left behind, reports the New York Times: For the last two years, the weak economy has provided an opportunity for employers to do what they would have done anyway: dismiss millions of people — like file clerks, ticket agents and autoworkers — who were displaced [...]
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You are sailing along on bright, clear water, with the morning sun off the port bow. All is calm. Up ahead, just through the fog, you can’t quite make out the way ahead. Rapids? “Are you going to disappear into the fog?”, asks Jane Hart.
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Clark Quinn describes the need: What seems to me to be the need is to have a unified performer-facing environment. It should provide access to courses when those are relevant, resources/job aids, and eCommunity tools too. That’s what a full technology support environment should contain. And it should be performer- and performance-centric, so I come [...]
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Would you rather go to a doctor who is in the band-aid business or the healing business? Prescribing training for all organizational learning is like handing out band-aids without a diagnosis. Training is often a solution in search of a problem. This becomes evident when ~80% of learning on the job is informal and less [...]
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This is a follow-up from yesterday’s post that the LMS is no longer the centre of the universe and Jane Hart’s post today on A Transition Path to the Future. According to Jane, Step One in this transition is: There are, of course, a number of steps on the transition path to a post-LMS future, [...]
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I used this chart, developed a few years ago, to explain in a simplified way the differences between Learning Interventions and Instructional Interventions. It shows that training & education (in the workplace) should concentrate on addressing a clear lack of knowledge and skills by using appropriate instructional interventions, well-established over the years. Non-instructional learning interventions [...]
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