In my last post I listed ten strategies for integrating learning with work. They are a combination of concepts and methods that build knowledge and bring learning into day to day activities and workflow. 10 STRATEGIES FOR INTEGRATING LEARNING AND WORK. They are environments (usually supported by technology) for groups of people with a common mission or interest to communicate, share learn and build knowledge needed to more effectively solve problems and accomplish work.  CoP’s have been around for as long as human beings have learned and worked together. MORE >>

world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?&# …or due to the implied technology knowledge of the “learning 2.0 Nancy White highlights general competencies that would be of value to any knowledge worker in today’s workplace.  Mohamed Amine Chatti identifies knowledge networking and double loop learning as critical. User level knowledge of web 2.0 Organizational knowledge and experience. MORE >>

If we’ve learned nothing else in recent years, we’ve learned that improving performance through learning is more effective the more it is integrated with real work.  Learning pundits encourage the “integration of learning and work&# but don’t always offer practical strategies that busy learning professionals can to use to make it happen.  In the next couple posts I’ll share some practices and mental models that have worked for me.  If your going to integrate learning with work you had better understand the work.  MORE >>

The conference has a diverse attendee list and I was very much looking forward to my keynote presentation: Changes in Knowledge Work and Implications for Workplace Learning. I was supposed to be in Vancouver right now for the eLearn Conference. Unfortunately, some very sad news in my family as my wife's father, a man beloved by everyone who met him, passed away on Thursday. So, I won't be able to go and make my keynote presentation. do want to thank the conference organizer, Gary Marks, for being incredibly understanding. So what do I do with the tweets? So, Monday, Oct. MORE >>

During the Q&A at a recent conference session on Social Learning a retail industry attendee asked: “I have to train 300 store level associates in new product knowledge in the next three months.  informal learning Knowledge work Learning Design performance support social media formal learningIs social learning really what I want?” What would your answer be? advocate informal and social learning vehicles when appropriate and get as excited about their uses as you likely do, but it’s not a panacea for all our learning woes.  Please come on over…. learning 2.0 MORE >>