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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.

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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

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In that kind of culture, employees are expected to seek out the knowledge and skills they need, when and where that knowledge and those skills are needed. In a training culture, departmental units in the organization compete for information. In a learning culture, knowledge and skills are shared freely among units.

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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. Or, they may not know the extent to which the gap in their knowledge prevents them from helping move the organization toward its collective goals.