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Insight Curation: Are We Accelerating or Protecting Productivity?

Living in Learning

The quality of those well-intended distributions, often via email attachments, or postings to knowledge bases, or communities of practice forums, or corporate shared drives, or SharePoint…or…or…or…are somewhat scattered. That's Point-of-Work, and that's where we can accelerate and protect productivity.

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Centring on strengths at core of self-directed learning approach

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

One survey has shown that self-directed learning is three times more important in helping knowledge workers become proficient on the job than company-provided training. He also recommends helping workers learn how to improve their learning skills as well as creating a supportive organizational culture.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. A great industrial worker might be half again as productive as his middle-of-the road peer. These people need the room to excel.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning. The organization establishes the goals and gives the workers flexibility in how to meet them. How workers learn now. Think about a go-getter knowledge worker learns something new. [6]