Jane Hart asked readers “ how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace? ” Here are the top five ways that people learn, with my comments below on how this can be facilitated in the organization, either by management or the learning support group. Notice that these are all informal. Aggregate learning resources and get input on the best sources, as we have done with Working Smarter Daily. Participate in and recommend social learning communities that meet the needs of your organization. Informal Learning MORE >>

To compensate for its complicated processes, the enterprise attempts to shift to another paradigm, and tries to become a learning organization, putting significant effort into training. Today’s large, complicated organizations are now facing increasingly complex business environments that require agility in simultaneously learning and working. Training, as “the&# solution to workplace learning needs, fails to deliver and then gets marginalized, often being the first department to have its budget cut. Learning Organization. Enterprise social learning. MORE >>

Last year, I looked at new hire practices and found some interesting methods: Ensuring new hires understand the shadow or informal part of the organization through the use of tools such as network maps (Jon Katzenbach, Senior Partner of Booz & Company, author of The Wisdom of Teams). The conversation was recorded and will be available at the Social Learning Centre shortly. Use the tools you have already for social learning. Any initial mistakes were corrected and now these FAQ are on a Yammer page for easy access. Informal Learning WorkTweet. MORE >>

companies spent money on informal learning tools or services last year. Most informal learning takes place despite training departments, not because of them. Informal learning is mushrooming as organizations implement social software. It’s hard to imagine informal learning not going along for the ride when a company embraces Jive or Chatter or Yammer or Socialcast or similar networking environments. An analyst reports that her company’s research finds that only 30% of U.S. What an astounding finding! L&D people. MORE >>

The figures, of course, reflect the astonishing rate of change over the last 60 years and those changes are mirrored in the field of learning. After centuries of traditional “classroom-style” learning, it has taken elearning a mere 30 years to establish itself as a genuine alternative and to corner a respectable share of the overall learning market. But “social learning” has probably taken less than 30 months to “arrive”. Social learning has in fact been around for a long time. So does this mean that social learning will replace elearning? MORE >>