Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2011

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.&# It’s all just working smarter.

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Toys Journal Theory Enterprise 65

Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2011

In the present economic crisis, building a skill agenda is of mutual interest and importance to both trade unions and employers.&#. Raising SME* commitment to training is a sine qua non for subsidising mechanisms for skill development opportunities to achieve the goal of expanding the provision of continuing training.&#.

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Cornerstone Policies Upgrade Report 59

Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2012

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Collaboration and community skills are the new workplace skills - Jane Hart , February 14, 2012.

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Social Networks Doc Enterprise 2.0 Social Media 64

Jay Cross

JUNE 10, 2014

We’re looking for people who have a variety of strengths and passions, not just isolated skill sets. How much of your organization’s investment in L&D centers on developing people rather than teaching skills? “We’ll want to know how you’ve flexed different muscles in different situations in order to mobilize a team.”.

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Google Cognitive Analytics CLO 70

Jay Cross

APRIL 11, 2013

“Learning style awareness is only a ‘cog in the wheel of the learning process’ and ‘it is not very likely that the self-concept of a student, once he or she has reached a certain age, will drastically develop by learning about his or her personal style’.”.

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Learning Styles Cognitive Pedagogy Analytics 94

Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2013

What does a motivated group of self-learners need to know to agree on a subject or skill, find and qualify the best learning resources about that topic, select and use appropriate communication media to co-learn it? Access to technology and access to knowledge, however, isn’t enough. Learning is a social, active, and ongoing process.

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Wiki Pipes Wikipedia Theory 79

Jay Cross

AUGUST 20, 2015

Learning is a skill one can improve. Some are gaining information, others pick up new skills, and yet others are developing something deeper, beliefs. Clark Quinn mentioned The Meta-Learning Lab during #lrnchat today and it brought back a rush of memories. We were ahead of our time. Learning how to learn is a key to its mastery.

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Learning Pattern Problem Site 36

Jay Cross

APRIL 24, 2015

is a book for people and small groups of colleagues who are taking their professional development into their own hands. I could really use an intern with editing skills. .” I imagine they feel like the dog who got on the bus. “What do I do now?” ” Aha! No instructors, no classrooms. Women okay, too).

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Pattern Knowledge Worker Reputation Learning 36

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

You will need to become a champion for the new approach to developing talent in the organization. You must convince your sponsor that managers and supervisors are the linchpin to developing new talent. Let them be the sherpas of both employee and career development. Managers have to learn how to develop their people.

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Blended Learning Performance Support Mash-up Mashups 47

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

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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Social Networks Social Social Network SocialText 55

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Perhaps most importantly, however, a MOOC builds on the active engagement of several hundred to several thousand “students” who self-organize their participation according to learning goals, prior knowledge and skills, and common interests. Although it may share in some of the conventions of an ordinary course, such as a prede?ned

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Pedagogy Social Networks Distance Learning Diversity Training 65

Jay Cross

AUGUST 5, 2012

Jesse Segers at the Antwerp Management School wrote about The problem with the 70:20:10 rule in leadership development yesterday. They can be targeted toward developing particular skills. Charles Jennings responded, Jesse responded to Charles, and I could not help but join the fray, writing: Jesse, we see things differently.

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Leadership Learning Behavior Instructional Design 53

Jay Cross

JANUARY 7, 2013

An increasing number of organisations, independent of size, nature or location, will acknowledge that their traditional training and development models and processes are failing to live up to the expectations of their leaders and workforce in a dynamic and global marketplace. Clark Quinn.

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Internet Predictions Confluence Performance Support 63

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

In traditional higher ed, colleges are not a place to learn skills. As you build skills, how to you build social networks and relationships? How do we prepare learners for the skills of the future, and also how do we prepare them to engage with the ecosystem? Professors give horrible lectures on esoteric subjects.

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Social Networks Mashups Mash-up Social Network 59

Jay Cross

MARCH 10, 2015

is a set of practices I’m developing to help pull-workers learn to learn. My bookshelves groan under more than 200 books on learning and development. (I’ve I led a team that created 120 hours of interactive exercises to teach business and management skills. I’d like to make that easier. That was a 1.0

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Project Instructional Design Community Blended Learning 36

Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2011

New foundation skills are critical thinking and managing in the face of ambiguity. Payback from implementing social networking is collaborative content development and getting input from all sides (Q&A page). Connect the enterprise with a technology like Jive. Concomitantly, reduce investment in formal learning.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 1, 2015

” Richard Davidson spoke on Well-being as a Skill. Well being is a skill. Born at Google and based on brain science , SIY uses the practices of mindfulness to train Emotional Intelligence skills, leading to resilience, positive mindset, and centered leadership. “Quiet your mind.” What’s important?

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Jay Cross

JULY 9, 2010

Kevin Kelly’s Lifestream had this to say today: Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Book reading strengthened our analytical skills, encouraging us to pursue an observation all the way down to the footnote. I have many ideas and doodles I want to capture. Will the iPad help or hinder?

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Keeping up with the accelerating pace of change calls for rapid cycle times (think daily) and small, self-organizing teams (think agile development). The growing inability of educational institutions to provide skilled workers for the demands of emerging markets puts immense pressure on traditional institutions for change.

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Privacy IBM Leadership Outsource 68

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 The Soft Skills of Collaboration and The Social Enterprise - Luis Suarez , September 14, 2011.

Social Networks 59

Social Networks Social Network Diversity Training Cognitive 59

Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2010

The message is cool: More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. However, practices of strategic innovation of universities, faculty development, assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have not fully accommodated these changes in technology and teaching.

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Culture Change Education Wiki 51

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Why do we bet the budget on technical stuff while shutting down programs in the arts, life skills, and physical fitness? The hard stuff is the soft stuff, but it’s tough to rank accomplishments in philosophy, diplomacy, or critical thinking skills on a multiple-choice test. For heaven’s sake, look at Einstein.

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Engineering Research Education Write Blog 58

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

The CLOs reported that most learning was technical and focused on skills; training enables the organization to operate. Also incorporate our roll-up of individuals’ development plans.”. The CxOs said they expected CLOs to lead, not respond. CxOs saw learning as the major investment in driving their businesses forward.

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Scanning CLO IBM ASTD 68

Jay Cross

JULY 13, 2010

If you add up the different phases of training that SOF candidates must go through, including specialized courses (such as high-altitude free-fall parachuting) and advanced training in their units, it may take two or three years at minimum to produce a fully developed SOF operator.

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Simulations Classroom PowerPoint Tagging 54

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Training departments largely overlooked improving the skills of seasoned employees, despite the fact that these were the people whose efforts were paying the bills. But making it easier through collaboration, self-service learning and skill bites helps sharp people become sharper. The companion Web site is simply a PDF of the manual.

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Camera Doc IBM Site 45

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Those hard soft-skills - Harold Jarche , August 8, 2011. Here’s how we choose the crème de la crème.

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Social Networks Social Media Social Network Network 50

Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

Aside from compliance training and new product introductions, most training focused on novices – either newhires who needed orientation or workers mastering a new skill or subject. They have set up social networks for alumni and help them keep up with new developments. Rather, they weren’t learning as well as they might.

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Collaborative Learning Collaboration Compliance Training Social Networks 61

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

They may require specialized knowledge or skills. Dave expresses this sentiment cogently: The producer-driven economy is giving way to a new, customer-centered world, where companies will prosper by developing relationships with customers by listening to them, adapting and responding to their wants and needs. The Cluetrain has arrived.

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Services Business Network Doc 51

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

To address this last objection, Cross has assembled a formidable team to create an IT platform, Togetherlearn.com , a template for businesses who wish to develop online learning communities tapping into all the Web 2.0 Can the same be said of e.g. IT skills, health and safety skills etc? Development is required.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The ability to predict, develop, and equip people for their tasks is becoming less likely. This workshop will make the case for a more agile organization, and discuss what that means in very specific terms, covering skills, culture, and technology. Such a deal.

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Case Study Metrics Organizational Learning Agile 38

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Some of the issues on the table: how CFOs evaluate and measure soft-skill areas such as training and development. I’m searching for a few good CFOs to participate in a panel session at the eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering in Orlando this March.

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eLearning Guild Liability Evalution Corporate eLearning 36

Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

RESPOND: Support the work; Connect people; Share experiences; Develop tools. Wirearchy in action is evident in open source software development projects, with minimal command and control, yet able to compete directly with large hierarchical corporations. Sensing patterns and helping to develop emergent work and learning practices.

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Authoring Tools CD-ROM Compliance Training DDI 46

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

And in a ever-changing world, learning is a survival skill. Next week I’ll release a white paper on the Internet Time Alliance site on how to develop an enterprise learning network. I don’t intend to stand idly by as business thought leaders repeat the same mistake with learning networks. Networks were made for learning.

Social Networks 68

Social Networks Network Social Network Wiki 68

Jay Cross

JANUARY 29, 2010

. “People naturally learn from each other, and as technology-supported social learning becomes main stream, what effects can we expect it to have on organisational Learning and Development? Smart organisations and managers recognise this, and make space for staff to cultivate these different approaches to developing their capability.&#.

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Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Social Networks Innovation 43

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

To address this last objection, Cross has assembled a formidable team to create an IT platform, Togetherlearn.com , a template for businesses who wish to develop online learning communities tapping into all the Web 2.0 Can the same be said of e.g. IT skills, health and safety skills etc? Development is required.

Blended Learning 36

Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

To address this last objection, Cross has assembled a formidable team to create an IT platform, Togetherlearn.com , a template for businesses who wish to develop online learning communities tapping into all the Web 2.0 Can the same be said of e.g. IT skills, health and safety skills etc? Development is required.

Blended Learning 36

Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

To address this last objection, Cross has assembled a formidable team to create an IT platform, Togetherlearn.com , a template for businesses who wish to develop online learning communities tapping into all the Web 2.0 Can the same be said of e.g. IT skills, health and safety skills etc? Development is required.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Training Train 36