Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

This appears in the August 2012 CLO magazine. Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. They need to provide informal feedback and work debriefs.

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Xyleme

JULY 21, 2010

To stay relevant, George believes training vendors should do two things: Stop talking “learning” and start talking “capacity” and “execution” like the rest of the C-suite. Augment their systems with components that provide opportunities for people to interact in social systems for informal learning.

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Xyleme

JANUARY 20, 2010

Rather, it’s the delivery of this formal content that will change – in the form of less courseware and more guided delivery at the point-of-performance, with social media platforms providing a critical publishing channel. Learn more about Dawn here. Follow @dawnpoulos on Twitter.

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Xyleme

DECEMBER 3, 2009

While I could write an entire blog post on the reasons for this, I think Clark Quinn summarizes it quite nicely: “As work becomes more complex and the level of information explodes, speed-to-competence will depend on an organizations ability to allow learners to support themselves by tapping into the knowledge of others.”

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