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Piecing together collaboration and cooperation

Clark Quinn

Within these communities, sharing pointers as well as deeper thoughts are mechanisms for ‘stealth mentoring ‘ and explicit mentoring is valuable as well. Note that the firewall tends to cross the middle of the diagram, and by blocking access you’re effectively cutting off a portion of the corporate brain!

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Business Social Media Benefits

Clark Quinn

When you can get connected to the person you need, get answers to your burning questions, connect to colleagues who can mentor, morally support, and more, you find that doing without is no longer acceptable. People might be concerned with what folks share, and there are two answers.

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Social Media vs. Social Learning

Integrated Learnings

Another suggestion is to have an instructor, a supervisor, or other mentor create a blog with a daily or weekly question to be posed to them. --3-- Check with your IT department to see what tools and guidelines may already be available to you for collaboration within your firewall. 3-- Create an Alumni group.

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Formal Learning vs. Informal Learning

Learningtogo

Keep in mind that your employees may be finding each other outside of your brick-and-mortar building, or even outside of your intranet and firewall. Reprioritizing work assignments gave new employees time to breathe — and time to seek out a colleague or mentor. Look for opportunities to make communication easier.

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Discover Your Organization’s Learning Ecosystems

Watershed

These informal learning programs have their own informal learning ecosystems that can consist of mentors, peers, performance support tools, Google, YouTube, industry publications, and many other resources. Outside the Firewall. Learning (especially informal learning) often happens outside the firewall.

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2 communication pitfalls (and how to avoid them)

CLO Magazine

The individual consistently had the “ firewall five ,” the highest score an enlisted member could receive. Feedback mentors : The lines can blur between coaches, mentors, advisers and bosses. Feedback mentors provide much needed divergent thought. .

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Performance Support

Clark Quinn

Learnscape architects have implemented miniature versions of the internet behind corporate firewalls that provide all of these things, from peer-rated FAQs to wizards, on-line help desks, and best practices repositories. This is an interesting take.