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Guest post: Informal Learning and the Pivot Point

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is followed by informal learning interventions, at the Pivot Point in the learning curve the knowledge and skills acquired in those formal experiences will not be applied and will be forgotten. This blog originally posted on The Performance Improvement Blog.

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The Waste of Motion

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But calling an entire team meeting just for a quick question would be wasteful and having one person make a unilateral decision without knowing all the information could also be wasteful. No one has to leave their desks to go to a meeting and information is quickly gathered, decided upon, and disseminated. What’s a team to do?

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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

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In a training culture, departmental units in the organization compete for information. The entire organization is engaged in facilitating and supporting learning, in the workplace and outside the workplace. Each unit wants to know more and control more than the other units. drug development in pharmaceutical companies).

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The future is bright: corporate learning gets smart

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What’s more, these “event-based” learning models often fail to take into account the on-the-job, in-the-moment needs for training and information: all those little reminders, tips and troubleshooting tricks that we all use to translate what we’ve learned to what we do on the job.

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Let me take a moment…or rather, Eight Moments of Learning Need

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We can set up resources, brokered support systems and troubleshooting guides for Moments 3 through 5, but the what, when and how of the learning is informally driven by the learner.