It looks at what they consider to be the six major drivers of change and the skills that will be necessary to thrive in this environment. . The 10 Skills. Based on these drivers, the report then suggest that 10 new skills will be required: Sense-making --ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed. New Media Literacy --ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media and to leverage these media for persuasive communication. . Design Mindse t --ability to represent and develop tasks for desired outcomes. MORE >>

A few years ago, I wrote about Roberto Moretti's Practice Made Perfec t system, as an approach to helping people learn skills. Now I'm reading about how players can be trained to move beyond the tasks they perform automatically to acquire and add new skills. I've recently found a useful follow-up in an unlikely source. As a football fan, I'm aware of the shortcomings in coaching, training and all-round education for professional players, so it is surprising to find what I would describe as cutting edge thinking in the arena of football coaching. MORE >>

Is there a difference between learning and development? ruminated over this question for a number of years as a Learning & Development professional, but without much progress. Cook-Greuter distinguishes between two directions of human development: horizontal growth and vertical transformation. Horizontal growth refers to the gaining of new knowledge, skills and behaviours within a particular stage of development. Rather than expanding capability within the same stage of development, the learner promotes their intellect to a higher stage of development. MORE >>

What are the skills you need to land an elearning job? Working in elearning taps into many skill sets. Designing or developing elearning  requires experience in training and project management as much as audio and video production. focus here on what I think are the top skills for elearning now, in 2011. These are skills that will show up on job descriptions where they list job criteria, requirements or experience. Instead, when looking to hire, I think managers are going to care more about these job skills, my top skills for elearning in 2011. MORE >>

When you think of sales training, leadership training, customer support training, and other kinds of critical thinking skills that have no quantitative skill measurement, you may think it is impossible to effectively train through the use of e-learning. The reason we are hesitant to believe soft skills can be trained via e-learning is because as a general rule, most people believe that 'people skills' cannot be taught effectively by an impersonal computer. Most instructional designers assume that to teach soft skills effectively using e-learning you create scenarios. MORE >>