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Guest post: Informal Learning and the Pivot Point

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As David Grebow explained in his post about The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point , unless formal training (courses, workshops, seminars, webinars, etc.) This chart identifies only some of the many ways in which learning can be supported over time. This process is represented by the chart below.

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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

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This blog originally posted on Learning To Be Great. What’s the difference between a “training culture” and a “ learning culture ”? As the chart shows, in a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In a learning culture, everyone is responsible for learning.

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The future is bright: corporate learning gets smart

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The rise of online learning (also known as web-based training or elearning) over recent decades allows employees the flexibility to learn whenever and almost wherever they want to, without waiting for the next class session to be offered, and without the hassle and expense of travel. A day in the life with smart learning.

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

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Two big thinkers, tossing around ideas about how we humans experience our lives, our work and our learning. Gottfredson, Bob Mosher and many others are moving the training & learning world past a single event-based training model and really embracing all that we need to consider as we aim to support performance on the job.