The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In the knowledge economy, we are working with our mind to produce work, to transform data into information and then into useful knowledge. . They need to learn to “manage minds,” where success is measured by employees’ ability to continuously learn, collaborate, communicate and innovate.

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CrossKnowledge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lisette Sutherland is a CrossKnowledge faculty member and Director of Collaboration Superpowers, a company committed to helping people work better together remotely or on a hybrid basis. It covers everything from facilitating cohesion and collaboration to managing conflict and potential difficulties. About Lisette.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

What worked before may not work at all now, or won’t yield the same results. Empowering learners to choose what works best for them can enable growth rather than facilitate the passive consumption of information. Co-design personalized paths with learners to optimize for choice in our new world of work. Consider:

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 30, 2010

One of the questions that always comes up is: How do I find more information to help me get started? The answer is that this information is a bit hard to come by. There’s a lot out there, but it’s often hard to find information that helps you get start. This was a major reason that I started down the path with Work Literacy.

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Ed App

JANUARY 18, 2021

Montessori is a method of education that is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play [2]. Creating interdependencies among the members of the group help to establish good communication and team-working skills. Learning is a life-long experience both in formal and informal aspect.

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Origin Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Therefore, learning behavior finds direct co-relation to the medium of consuming information. This popular hand-held device has become so integral to existence that even HR policies are being tweaked to incorporate the ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) policy at work. Informal learning. Collaborative learning.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Review the post - Information Radar - and use the information there to set up your radar and start a new blog. Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 Can you articulate what Web 3.0

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Ed App

AUGUST 17, 2021

Teamwork & Collaboration. Being part of an organization, it is natural to collaborate with different departments to keep the company running. Team members will have to work together to accomplish a common goal as some tasks cannot be done alone. You may want to check out the Embracing Teamwork course by EdApp.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 21, 2009

There are certainly powerful examples in Twitter Collaboration Stories and Twitter for Learning. Still, I would put Twitter as a social tool, a serendipity learning tool, a quick hit, general question tool. But it's still down on my list and you have to be careful not to allow it to waste time.

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ProProfs

JANUARY 30, 2019

Apart from the cost factor, videos promote better retention on the part of learners as videos often break down complicated information into bite-sized audiovisuals. Microlearning refers to any brief, informal, and granular learning experience such as salespersons watching an explainer video as a part of their product training.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader? We are left trying to figure out where all these new tools fit in our day-to-day work life and our professional life. You aren't alone in that.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In June 2008, Work Literacy Launched. I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. When I look at my particular skills, methods and tools for 2009 and compare them to 2008, I would say that it’s mostly a question of degree of use and certainly my use of Twitter has grown. eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

JULY 22, 2009

That there is a ‘best’ way to manage knowledge an information? Studies of Personal Information Management say that what works is often highly personal. In fact, Work Literacy is pretty much this topic. Isn’t that what we’ve learned there isn’t ? However, a lot can be gained from sharing approaches and practices.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 7, 2009

What information do I regularly consume? Find - Includes Evaluate, Narrow / Adjust Keep / Organize / Refind / Remind Leverage / Present Network Collaborate I do all of this in a Word document - capturing it as a series of notes. I look closely at my information consumption. What methods and tools do I use for that task?

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Designing Digitally

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Employees who are trusted with sensitive information have a deeper sense of investment in the organization. If organizations hire for cultural fit more than skills, the employees will have the right attitude and be engaged in their work. Skills can be taught, attitude needs to be ingrained.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

That said, it's worth consulting resources such as: Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need - A wonderful list of different types of searches and tools that go along with that type of search. In all honesty, my bigger switch has been to leverage Networks and Communities (i.e., people search) than to leverage other search engines.

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eLearning 24-7

JUNE 11, 2020

And when it came to onboarding the premise was provide them the information they need quickly, to onboard them quickly and have them into the fold. Nearly “25 percent of workers reported that their skills were mismatched to the demands of their current job.” But virtual ILT only works to a point. Acceptable for sure.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 20, 2009

The broader perspective he is talking about is to look beyond formal learning to informal learning, social learning, collaborative learning, and personal learning. The only way to handle long tail learning is to focus on providing the tool set and personal learning and working skills ( work literacy ) that are central to concept work.

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OpenSesame

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Technical, technical, technical – From information technology and systems administration to software engineering or mechanical engineering, corporations are seeking technically skilled individuals to support the growth of their products and services in the information economy.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 19, 2009

Serving Clients In terms of serving clients, I covered parts of Tool Set , specifically Work Skills Keeping Up , Better Memory , Information Radar , Processing Pages with Links , Networks and Learning Communities , Collaborate , and Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

In each classroom, tables are also “connected” to one another to facilitate learning and collaboration. ACL also includes Pinterest-like online learning boards that enable employees to access expert-curated information on different topics. Varma said the pitch to leadership for the learning center was pretty straightforward.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

The information in this series has been something I've been presenting, writing, blogging about and more recently doing workshops around. I'm hoping to address questions such as: How do you create a personal tool set or Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for yourself? What should be in your tool set? Should twitter be part of your tool set?

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Talented Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

b) Two days of private, uninterrupted access to a library of popular industry books, courses and related information. If people simultaneously complete the same online training in isolation, most will remember only basic information. On the other hand, too many options can paralyze participants with information overload.

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ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2014

Going through my blog-roll, I read two related posts – Four Basic Skills for 2020 by Harold Jarche and Technology Changes Everything by Jane Hart. Harold’s post also pointed to a report called Future Work Skills 2020 published by the Institute for the Future for the University of Phoenix Research Institute.

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TalentLMS

JANUARY 24, 2022

While the information is pretty similar, which of these options would be more popular with your employees? User-generated content promotes social learning and learning in an informal environment. They practice skills like presentation and written communication—abilities that are useful in every business and personal setting.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 12, 2009

I'm only 43, but posts like New Work Skills are a bit of an eye opener that we were taught metacognition using note taking on paper, card catalogs, microfiche readers , rollodex, etc. The reality is that metacognitive techniques are changing rapidly - hence so are work skills. This creates multiple lists for reminding.

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Talented Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Getting any one of these elements right is challenging enough, but ensuring that they work together in a complementary way requires a deep ongoing commitment. For example, mobile users typically prefer information presented in shorter intervals. You’re also likely to need a student information system (SIS).

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TalentLMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Very rich and informative infographic about blended learning as a disruptive innovation that consists of definition, history, statistics and more practical part explaining the models and six example programs to see what blended learning is in practice. Dave Landry Jr.

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Marcia Conner

JULY 18, 2012

The world’s technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s according to Martin Hilbert and Priscila López. 900 Billion/year: cost of lowered employee productivity and reduced innovation from information overload. CAGR through 2015. ( 6Trillion: Big data cost. (

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Limestone Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This webinar distills a year's worth of original research into a highly informative 50 minutes, which you can take and use to develop new strategies for 2017 and beyond. In the face of all this information, it’s critical that organizations get better at not only collecting more meaningful data, but also understanding what it all means.

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