Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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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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Donald Clark on training departments…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

If you want to learn what is really going on in learning and development while rolling on the floor laughing, you’ve got to read Donald Clark. Read Donald’s post on a recent debate about whether training departments are part of the solution or part of the problem. Neither has so-called ‘leadership’ training.

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A new model for training

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

This is an excerpt from The training department of the future by Harold Jarche and Jay Cross. A New Model for Training. The main objective of the new training department is to enable knowledge to flow in the organization. Sensing patterns and helping to develop emergent work and learning practices.

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Get Out of the Training Business

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Training is obsolete because it deals with a past that won’t be repeated. Survivors will develop and present agendas for change while things are in flux. Here’s the pitch I’d offer the most senior person I could get a hearing with: “Next week, we will close the training department. We’re scrapping the LMS posthaste.

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Training from the Back of the Room

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Pfeiffer has just published a book entitled Training form the BACK of the Room! Here’s the Foreword: Sharon Bowman writes about how trainers need to think about learning, plan learning experiences, and deliver the goods in a class or training. Training has adopted most of this bad baggage from school. Keep them engaged.

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Informal Learning Center

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Formal training and workshops account for only 5% to 20% of what people learn from experience and interactions. Most corporations over-invest in formal training while leaving the more natural, simple ways we learn to chance. Managers, the Secret Weapon for Developing Better Employees (70 20 10). Bibliography. References.

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Agile instructional design

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Starting virtually from scratch, America had to train millions of men to be soldiers and millions of civilians to make ships and armaments. The training film was born, soon to be followed with the ADDIE model. but ADDIE is beginning to show its age: Training is only part of the learning equation. Because she’s in training.