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Leave Learning to Employees, sort of

Jay Cross

CLO magazine November 2015. This article describes the CLO of Kaplan as he adapts to a world where employees can route around learning to find their own content. Learner-created content presents a challenge to CLOs: they want to control it. I think CLOs should be worrying about other things. Leave Learning to Employees.

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Timing is Everything

Jay Cross

That explains why I get upset with Past thinkers who slam me for not providing footnotes and with Present thinkers who want to hold up the show for something I consider inconsequential. Think about it at the next CLO Symposium. Reading between the lines, the CXOs appear to be Future thinkers; the CLOs are Past and Present thinkers.

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Big Data at Google

Jay Cross

We’re likely to ask you some role-related questions that provide insight into how you solve problems.”. This article appears in the June issue of CLO Magazine. Technical hires — about half of new Googlers — must demonstrate their ability to code, How You Think. Googleyness. “ We want to get a feel for what makes you, well, you.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

This appears in the August 2012 CLO magazine. Encourage experimentation, delegate stretch assignments, provide opportunities to apply new skills in real situations, involve people in challenging projects, and rotate assignments. They need to provide informal feedback and work debriefs. Serving enterprise customers.

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The future is people, not technology

Jay Cross

CLO magazine, June 2009. My last column in CLO called for the abolition of corporate training departments. Yet other moderators seed discussions to channel conversations in ways that might provide insight to the organization. More Human Than Human. Column on Effectiveness, by Jay Cross. The future is people, not technology.

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What About the Future?

Jay Cross

Rather, they provide alternative views of the future. An edited version of this article appears in the April 2012 edition of CLO magazine. “Scenarios are stories about the future, but their purpose is to make better decisions in the present” – Scenarios: an explorer’s guide, Shell. They do not predict what’s to come.

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Workscaping, part 1 of n

Jay Cross

T oday CLO magazine’s Deanne Hartley interviewed me for an upcoming story about micro-learning. They are the aspect of workplace infrastructure that provide multiple means of solving problems, tapping collective wisdom, and collaborating with others. Is it a fad? People naturally learn in small chunks.