Jay Cross

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15 essentials for successful learning

Jay Cross

While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook. Make it drop-dead simple to access people in the know, the lessons of experience, how-to information, and performance support. Ensure support is mobile.

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The Designer’s Toolbox

Jay Cross

You don’t hear about tools like these at ASTD meetings and traditional training gatherings. We focused more on performance and less on training. We modeled a stranded passenger dealing with an airline’s telephone customer support, both real and how it might be. Mindmapping. First person. Gamestorming.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

That led me to an article Harold and I had written on the demise of the training department. The Future of the Training Department. The latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. The latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. NCR delivered the first sales training.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Moderator (Harold Jarche): traditional training & education has driven much of our self-direction and creativity out of us - need to relearn. Moderator (Clark Quinn): world as biosphere, org as performance ecosystem. Moderator (Clark Quinn): @kelly, yes Allison's rightly has been on Perf support for a long time. Love it Jay.

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LearnTrends Tweetstream backchannel

Jay Cross

Feature | Block trishuhl #ASTD -comnts frm #learntrends – we’re not the most tech inclined cmty < 5% @ TK cld txt -agreed but sm grp is tryin to upskill our peers -12:11 PM Nov 18th, 2009. Now, Approaches for Getting Learning & Support Where It’s Needed. . -12:12 PM Nov 18th, 2009.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It. Training is not the same as learning 6. Corporate Training Is Broken 7. Chief Learning Officers know training is not working 7. Managers feel training has scant impact 8. Training is out of sync with the times 11. Corporate training is broken.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

It’s all a matter of learning, but it’s not the sort of learning that is the province of training departments, workshops, and classrooms. Most people in training programs learn only a little of the right stuff, are fuzzy about how to apply what they’ve learned, and never address who are the right people to know. ” [1].