Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2009

Hearty thanks to my pal Joe Wehr for bringing this article to my attention. Conferring with tablemates, calling out questions and jumping up to write formulas on the white boards are all encouraged. I’m putting online media ahead of the dead-tree variety this year and am lucky to read the Times one day a week.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2009

tools being used in learning—are getting more attention than the end result? We don’t pay as much attention to it and often it has been laid on us so far in advance of when we will need it, we forget it. Clarke famously wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” It’s all about push versus pull.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Here’s an oversimplification of Sharon’s meta-recipe: Create engagements that capture the learners’ attention. Every trainer will put his or her spin on things; that’s what a professional does. Get out of the way; don’t try to think for them. Encourage people to learn from one another.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 16, 2010

If you take it, pay attention to the dialogue, not the multiple choice items. (Like those who want to critique the questions or the questioner instead of the methodology.). The Learning About Learning course is still open at SpacedEd. I spent less than an hour coming up with the initial questions; they are not that deep.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

And as a result, we must focus our attention on learning ecosystems instead of courses and workshops: platforms, not programs. Groups have become more important than individuals. The interplay of complex systems has rendered the business environment unpredictable.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

In most industries, they will be paying more attention to knowledge than to hard assets, inspiring rather than cracking the whip. Reports on customer relationships and what’s happening outside of the company will become more important than internal bean-counting. Managers become leaders and coaches instead of watchdogs and controllers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

That’s insufficient to capture the attention of a senior executive for one floor of an elevator pitch. The fall-off is attributable to irrelevant content and delivery too far in advance of need. Now we’re dealing with 20% of 2%, less than half a percent of the potential behaviour change in the organisation.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

We learn best: when we are paying attention. Two half-hour rounds of aerobic exercise every week is enough to measurably improve reasoning, attention, and problem-solving. Pay attention! You can’t learn very well if you’re not paying attention. ATTENTION | Rule #4: We don’t pay attention to boring things.

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