Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

This is an excerpt from The training department of the future by Harold Jarche and Jay Cross. See the full article at the togetherLearn site. A New Model for Training. The main objective of the new training department is to enable knowledge to flow in the organization. Harold and I are members of togetherLearn.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Formal training and workshops account for only 5% to 20% of what people learn from experience and interactions. Most corporations over-invest in formal training while leaving the more natural, simple ways we learn to chance. Articles and Commentary. When it’s just so obvious NOT to train it’s painful to watch it happen , ibid.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here’s a six-year old article on informal learning I discovered while Googling for material on learning transfer. If you’re still relying on formal training to develop managers, you might want to give this one a read. Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency. 4, Winter 2003.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

“Empowering individuals to learn through discovery how to lead from their strengths is a major fulcrum for my work,” says Cross, who has written extensively on the subject of self-directed and informal learning and its increasing relevance and effectiveness — as compared to company-provided training — in today’s knowledge economy.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

G et Out of the Training Business , my most recent column for Chief Learning Officer, called for the abolition of corporate training departments. Starting virtually from scratch, America had to train millions of men to be soldiers and millions of civilians to make ships and armaments. New roles for former trainers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

You can find it in blogs, presentations, articles, books, YouTube, free book chapters. You’ll find it discussed in training forums, featured in conferences and the subject of many presentations. I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2009

In an article you wrote recently you said that there are “fewer limits to potential.” We are going to take knowledge management, organization development, training, and talent management and roll them all up into one department that will be headed up by a chief people officer. LXB: Is the nature of the learner changing that much?

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