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Workplace Trends from 2004…Still Trending

Integrated Learnings

One dusty cover that caught my eye was the January 2004 issue of Training + Development Magazine from ASTD, with this headline: 8 Trends You Need to Know NOW. Here’s a peek at the eight trends from 2004. --1-- Globalization is making our workforces increasingly interconnected, with a rise in offshoring many business functions. --4--

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eLearning Australia

Upside Learning

between 2004 & 2009 and 12.8% As competition increases we should find this trend gain further momentum as bigger companies try to outsource larger portions of their projects to offshore destinations like India in order to stay competitive against the smaller players. - for next 5 years.

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Hard Finding Good Developers / Designers

Tony Karrer

from 2005 (an all time high) 79 percent of IT workers work in IT-reliant companies (health care and financial services, industries enabled by IT but not focused on IT) From 2000 to 2004, the number of incoming US undergraduates planning to major in Computer Science dropped by 60%. And off-shore is not always appropriate.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ? eLearning Technology.

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The CLO’s Critical Role: Nine Areas for Action

CLO Magazine

This From the Vault article was published in December 2004 on CLOmedia.com. This strategy involves a significant use of outsourcing, offshoring, temporary contract employees and sometimes hiring fully competent individuals so that no additional training and development is needed. Invest only the minimum. But it is not that simple.

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Your character strengths

Jay Cross

You can achieve more success by fully leveraging your strengths than by shoring up your weaknesses. The front-end of Chris Peterson’s seminal book (2004), co-authored with Marty Seligman, is online. I can blow off a month or two without realizing it. Find opportunities to apply your strengths in everything you do.

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Listen: Vulcan’s Tim Mulligan talks about how companies can teach employees to be happier, healthier and more resilient

CLO Magazine

Mike: I want to dive in here in a minute to a topic of our conversation but maybe you could tell us first off about Vulcan. It can’t be off the shelf. My question for you to kick this off is: Is resilience a personality trait that some people just have? I was brought in in 2004. Tim Mulligan: Thank you.