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Power of informal learning in developing managers

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

If you’re still relying on formal training to develop managers, you might want to give this one a read. Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY, vol. Enos, Marijke Thamm Kehrhahn, Alexandra Bell. 4, Winter 2003. For example, McCall et al.

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Calling shades of gray “black and white&#

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Fifteen years ago, “the OECD education ministers agreed to develop strategies for ‘lifelong learning for all’ &# They still don’t have it right. In 1961, it was reformed into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development by the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning. New roles for former trainers. ADDIE (analyze, design, develop, implement & evaluate) made it possible to manage the process of creating useful training programs systematically.

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Corporate Learning Trends: The Future of Organizational Learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

On April 21, Corporate Learning Trends will focus on the Future of Organizational Learning and Development. What are the new roles? We plan to explore the issues you want to talk about. Among the suggestions to-date: Show me the money. Where should an organization invest its time and resources going forward?

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Power to the peers!

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Harris was savaged by the scientific community for daring to question our cultural belief that parents have tremendous impact on the development of their children. The Nurture Assumption explores the mountain of evidence pointing away from parents and toward peer groups as the strongest environmental influence on personality development.

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Competenz

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

This is in part a reflection of the differences in the role of government in the U.S. What competencies will adult individuals need to develop in order to function? Through what systems and organisations can this competence be developed? and in Europe, particularly Scandanavia.

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Competenz

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

This is in part a reflection of the differences in the role of government in the U.S. What competencies will adult individuals need to develop in order to function? Through what systems and organisations can this competence be developed? and in Europe, particularly Scandanavia.