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The Role of Training in the Wider Productivity Puzzle

OpenSesame

Skills have a major bearing on workforce productivity – especially in developed economies where the majority of employees are knowledge workers. It also resonates with what most of us knowledge workers feel – that there’s never enough time for anything, let alone optional training with its long-term (i.e.

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The Role of Training in the Wider Productivity Puzzle

OpenSesame

Skills have a major bearing on workforce productivity – especially in developed economies where the majority of employees are knowledge workers. It also resonates with what most of us knowledge workers feel – that there’s never enough time for anything, let alone optional training with its long-term (i.e.

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Portrait of the modern knowledge worker

Jay Cross

The concept of ‘knowledge worker’ which Peter Drucker coined in 1959, is perhaps not so clear (as shown again in a recent LinkedIn discussion - access potentially limited) and can be understood at … Jay Cross ‘s insight: Brilliant. See on Scoop.it – Humanist Business.

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Executive Roundtable – Learning Systems Execs Q/A

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For example, skills are often considered an interchangeable term for skills and behaviors, and so called “soft skills” are now being thought of in the form of competencies relating to behaviors, attitudes and knowledge. We are pleased to be able to use our own software and expertise to craft and deliver content.

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Top 70 eLearning Articles - Hot Topics: iPad Adobe Captivate - July 2010

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m not and I gave him the standard advice about looking through LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers , LinkedIn for Finding Expertise , and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers. He did that, but didn’t find particular people. eLearning Technology.

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Working Smarter eFieldbook $12

Jay Cross

Industrial age workers created value in factories. Knowledge workers create value in workscapes. A typical workscape features these components: Participant profiles, expertise locators. The workscaping viewpoint helps knowledge workers become more effective professionally and fulfilled personally.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Training departments are mired in Industrial Age, top-down attitudes, and that’s not playing well with Network Era, customer-focused workers. Knowledge workers learn more than twice as much from experience as from bosses and coaches, and the training department accounts for less half of that. Profiles, expertise locators.