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ASTD no more

Jay Cross

The American Society for Training and Development has ceased to exist. Now it’s the Association for Talent Development. That left out lower-level trainers so development replaced directors in a name change and the doors were opened to everyone in the training business. Trainers flocked to the organization.

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50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10

Jay Cross

The Coherent Organization. Replacing today’s haphazard approaches with systematic, enlightened management accelerates the development of future workers and gets the entireorganization working smarter. Members of CoPs develop and share knowledge, values, recommendations and standards. We learn to do the job on the job.

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Isn’t this how organizational learning cultures progress?

Jay Cross

Jane Hart’s post yesterday on The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business got me thinking about the evolution of learning culture in organizations. As the organization progresses, it adds more layers to the mix of learning going on. Think of it this way. Been there, done that, moving on.

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It’s all about working smarter

Jay Cross

My work helping clients work smarter generally involves informal learning, collaboration, knowledge-sharing, organization development, and nurturing learning ecosystems. Jack Welch has said, “Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.&#

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development. The exec secured a mandate from the executive committee to experiment with social networking in three areas of the company, international sales, manufacturing resource forecasting, and learning & development.

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Learn Informal Learning Informally

Jay Cross

Take a look, then tell me how much you think I should charge, whether anyone in your organization might want to sign up, and what else you’d like to see. Benchmark your organization against peers. Develop and sell your implementation plan. Collaborate with a self-organizing team to solve problems. with Jay Cross.

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Benchmarking Online Learning

Jay Cross

Twelve years ago, my friend Laura Overton (we worked at SmartForce together) founded Towards Maturity to benchmark learning across organizations. . The Towards Maturity Benchmark is the only free, independent and confidential formal benchmark available to learning and development professionals. 91% team collaboration. 73% web search.