Acorn Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But how does a skills inventory really help your business? It helps you with internal mobility by matching your employees' skills with internal positions that they're the most qualified for. This also helps to reduce costs and decrease time to proficiency as you won't be hiring and onboarding from external talent pools.

Skills 52

Skills Benefits Strategy Mobile 52

Acorn Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But how does a skills inventory really help your business? It helps you with internal mobility by matching your employees' skills with internal positions that they're the most qualified for. This also helps to reduce costs and decrease time to proficiency as you won't be hiring and onboarding from external talent pools.

Skills 52

Skills Benefits Strategy Mobile 52

CLO Magazine

MAY 3, 2023

Leader boards, jigsaw puzzles, discussion forums and group projects all encourage learner access to peer knowledge. Sharing, brainstorming and reviewing all lead to high order thinking that adds new knowledge and builds upon existing knowledge. Working in a group enhances problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

Collaborative Learning 78

Collaborative Learning Collaboration Diversity Training Design 78

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Should the following Dilbert worry me about Work Literacy? Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work.

eLearning Strategy 106

eLearning Strategy Twitter eLearning Tools Search 106

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

We will bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work to understand better what's going on in those areas and how we should be thinking about this holistically. Communities and Networks Knowledge Management Corporate Libraries Talent Management come together to form a cohesive picture.

LearnTrends 161

LearnTrends Conference Free Enterprise 2.0 161

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

But, I actually think we should be focused on the emphasis on the type of knowledge work and the type of workers. That's not as helpful as it should be. That's not as helpful as it should be. The person in the call center does quite a bit of routine knowledge work. In other words.

Knowledge Worker 111

Knowledge Worker Engineering Knowledge Work Customer Service 111

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 10, 2013

He realized that the problems the world was facing were growing exponentially, and that our only hope was to learn at a similarly exponential rate, and decided that helping humans accomplish this goal was a suitable life’s work. His solution was so all-encompassing that most people only get their minds around a small bit of it.

Diversity Training 154

Diversity Training Internet Collaboration Articulate 154

Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

Social Bookmarking 100

Social Bookmarking RSS eLearning 2.0 Poll 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

Social Bookmarking 100

Social Bookmarking RSS eLearning 2.0 Poll 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2009

I'm hoping you can help a reader with thoughts and likely help others of us … A medium size nonprofit and lobbying organization is working on a designing and creating a social / work network for experts, students, volunteers who are willing to help through campaigning, lobby, sharing knowledge, working on solutions (writing documents).

Social Networks 102

Social Networks Social Network Network Social 102

Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But with the new Encourage & Engage approach it is going to be now about the quality of the service they provide; it’s going to be about how well they help individuals achieve their performance objectives. Tom Gram’s diagram (reproduced to the left) shows that “ most work requires a combination of knowledge work and routine work.

Social Learning 199

Social Learning Social Metrics Blended Learning 199

Origin Learning

MARCH 10, 2016

Organizations globally, irrespective of size, are concentrating on how to connect intellectual (knowledge), working (money), and human (talent) capital effectively so that efficiency drives growth and brings in economic gains to the stakeholders. Such being the scenario, every dime counts, right? Source: https://youtu.be/jm15S1QmOTw.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Social Social Networks 100

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 13, 2010

In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work. conduct useful research.

Brain 176

Brain iPad Outsource Social Media 176

Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2010

You will get help when you: Try to find the right project, start the project, perform the project, complete the project Hire someone Sell a house Improve customer satisfaction ( data driven ). We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work.

Performance Support 113

Performance Support Support Performance Cognitive 113

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I have yet to discover (through further research) which (if any) of the responses will be most helpful to me. This is definitely a knowledge work task where talking to someone will help. I posted a query about this to several of the groups that I've joined on LinkedIn and have received about a dozen responses so far.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks LinkedIn Expertise Ning 100

ID Reflections

MAY 30, 2013

He is the group leader of one of the Self-Help Group s (SHGs) working at Mother Earth. Spotting Talent and Leadership: One of Umesh''s responsibilities as a team leader is to induct new people into the group, help them learn the skills and get them started. And embodied what Harold Jarche says: Work is learning.

Leadership 139

Leadership Skills Job Predictions 139

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work. Weed : you may have to help people learn how to participate. You may well find some inappropriate behavior, and help those learn what’s acceptable.

Wiki 182

Wiki IM IMS Network 182

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledge work. Finding content was the biggest challenge.

Work Skills 100

Work Skills Skills Wiki Google Docs 100

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As part of my presentations on Work Literacy and eLearning 2.0 - I discuss how learning and knowledge work are changed by things such as computers, mobile computing, the web, social media, social networks, access to people/experts through the web, and the flood of new tools. on learning and knowledge work.

Social Networks 102

Social Networks Quiz Social Network Social Media 102

Vitalyst

MARCH 8, 2018

They spend 41 percent of their time on activities that do not offer personal satisfaction and do not help them accomplish their work. The most important, in terms of the challenges organizations are facing today, are: Productivity must be the responsibility of the individual knowledge workers themselves. They must have autonomy.

Knowledge Worker 40

Knowledge Worker Innovation Culture Productivity 40

ID Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2011

In short, this helps us to deal with complex situations. Focused feedback : Coaches/trainers are at hand to provide corrective feedback and help the learners model their behaviors. Now the question remains, how will this help knowledge workers deal with complex and chaotic challenges that are unprecedented?

Cognitive 136

Cognitive Diversity Training Information Overload Behavior 136

Learnnovators

OCTOBER 8, 2015

those who employ the recipients of the training) involved helps focus the process on real outcomes. And helping SMEs focus on decisions and skills, not knowledge, working with them in a partnership rather than them as a fount of knowledge is helpful. Having end user stakeholders (e.g.

Design 133

Design eLearning Strategy eLearning Cognitive 133

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2009

And when I discuss what the new skills are around knowledge work, I quickly arrive a the biggest changes being things like finding expertise , finding answers , using social media to find answers , and learning through conversation. The common threads here are: People Networks To me, the biggest work literacy gap is in this area.

Social Media 100

Social Media Wikipedia Social Networks LinkedIn 100

TechSmith Camtasia

OCTOBER 14, 2013

EDUCAUSE is a conference where higher education IT professionals meet to network and learn from each other to help boost education success. Of course, TechSmith will be there, so be sure to visit us at booth #1531 to learn the how-to’s of creating engaging and interactive content to help you teach online.

Screencast 74

Screencast TechSmith Tutorial Write Blog 74

Tony Karrer

MARCH 11, 2009

This also means that a key skill is develop better memory methods that help us individually deal with the fact that we are skimming more stuff and will have an ever increasing need to quickly get back to it. However, this is also where Learning Organizations can jump in to help by playing an aggregator role.

Long Tail 100

Long Tail Design Courseware eLearning 2.0 100

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We find that knowledge work has replaced manual labor as the predominant form of work. Feedback on practice helps learner learn skill. Parent roles: Parent role needs to change – parents need to be more involved in supporting child’s education – helping child decide what to learn and helping child how to learn it.

Wiki 160

Wiki Instructional Design Performance Support Instructional 160

Tony Karrer

MARCH 23, 2009

Dodged that bullet. :) Patterns and Knowledge Work I understand the concern that when you share best practices, you may come out with very different results. From the above definition, a Design Pattern is defined by: Pattern Name and Classification: A descriptive and unique name that helps in identifying and referring to the pattern.

Pattern 100

Pattern Examples Metrics Knowledge Worker 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Using SharePoint as Project System for Training Organization Quite a few people talked about how they were using SharePoint as a collaborative tool to work on projects. They had profiles, directories, blogs to help foster sharing between spread out teams. is about is helping the individual to self-serve. were similar.

SharePoint 133

SharePoint PWLE eLearning 2.0 Diversity Training 133

Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2017

The future of work will heavily feature knowledge working, where people will be working on the move, using technology to connect, communicate and create. Work will polarise between high and low skills level employment. Some professions have a better track record than others. Unported License.

Pedagogy 77

Pedagogy Lecture License Creative Commons 77

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Our last formal learning used card catalogs, microfiche readers, Xerox machines, libraries, etc. And how important is this?

Work Skills 102

Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I'm struggling a bit with the question of whether what we need to do around Work and Learning has changed or is it only that the Context and the Methods have changed. Let me try to explain the question and then I'm hoping I'll get a bit of help on answers.

Change 100

Change Methods eLearning Tools Learning 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2009

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. And I consider knowing how to effectively use LinkedIn to be a core Work Literacy. I wanted to collect together some of the resources I've found that can help you get more out of LinkedIn.

Social Networks 120

Social Networks LinkedIn Knowledge Worker Guide 120

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2010

My interpretation of the Agile philosophy I am trying to acquire better ways of learning and building personal knowledge networks and helping others do it. How does it help now?” Generalization helps in a number of ways ( I am referring to generalization around one’s core skills ).

Agile 179

Agile Expertise Cognitive Collaboration 179

Matrix

MAY 9, 2019

Spaced repetition during online training courses helps, but post-training activities that are based on previously acquired knowledge are even better. Read more: The role of an LMS in applying spaced repetition.

Knowledge 55

Knowledge Simulations Micro-Learning Instructional Design 55

Everwise

JANUARY 25, 2018

The onboarding practices of the past – completing checklists of tasks, filling out forms, and even watching old grainy compliance tapes – may no longer cut it, particularly in industries like knowledge work, where talent (and therefore turnover) is very expensive. In their haste, they overlook context and delivery.

Atlassian 40

Atlassian Compliance Training Mentoring Trust 40

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Tapping the Social Grid Date: Friday, February 27th Time: 9 - 10 am PACIFIC, Noon - 1 pm EASTERN Register Here Over the past 20 years, knowledge work has been transformed by the explosion of information sources and information flow. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods.

Social 100

Social Free Sun IBM 100

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 13, 2009

This is going to take some work to get it right, but we believe it will help to highlight various hot list content. Together these social signals indicate that the content is likely of higher quality (or at least of higher interest). Thus it belongs in both a best of list and a hot list. Other items come from other sources.

Mzinga 100

Mzinga GeoLearning FLV Jing 100