Blogging to show off your organization
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
OCTOBER 2, 2009
Great article in the NY Times about student blogging at MIT. It helps prospective students get a feel for the place before applying.
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Workscape evolution
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MAY 7, 2010
This morning Jane Hart posted this 5-stage model of the evolution of workplace learning in an organization. If all you offer is via an LMS, you are failing to support the biggest money-makers in your organization. overarching issue is who controls the curriculum. learning is a mix of formal and informal , not one or the other.
Informal learning: the real deal. Free.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
APRIL 3, 2010
I plan to describe informal learning already taking place in organizations, often flying beneath the radar. We’ll look at examples of organizations using the web to accelerate learning and spark innovation. Organizations that focus on the supply side of the training they provide are looking at the wrong side of the equation.
Learning Without Borders
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
APRIL 16, 2010
In a pre-webcast discussion with Jay Cross yesterday we tackled how organizations steward informal learning; Jay will ask HCI members to bring a relevant business problem to the webcast and walk us through ways to focus on the demand side (what learners need) to facilitate powerful informal learning. Learning Without Borders.
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Web 2.0 and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
DECEMBER 13, 2009
Chief learning officers (CLO s) are dealing with organizations the same way they did 25 years ago—focusing on full-time employees. They are in old-style organizations that are grappling with a crumbling hierarchy. But those organizations that have jumped on board and are working with (Web 2.0 By Rex Davenport. That is suicide.
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Skunkworks for innovation
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JUNE 30, 2010
Because skill guilds constrain… …(and defend) an organization, it is often far easier to start a new organization than to change a successful old one. The edges also permit more time for a novel organism to work out its bugs without having to oppose highly evolved organisms.
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L&D Suicide?
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JUNE 13, 2010
Sustainable organizations gain flexibility by empowering their people to make decisions rather than thinking people are mere cogs in a machines. Workers in a Pull organization are delegated the power to solve problems and get things done in the absence of fixed procedures and direct supervision. Many organizations are not ready.).
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Free webinar on informal learning
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 27, 2010
We take pride in our partnerships with employers and other organizations in the community, and are able to give back with free events like the ISD Now! Webinar Series will hold its next webinar on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 from 1 p.m. Guest speaker, Jay Cross, will discuss Informal Learning: 5 Ways to do More With Less. Webinars. “We
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Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
These days I focus my energies on helping organizations work smarter. Informal learning is more important than ever. It’s part of life. It no longer needs an in-your-face site to promote it. Informal learning is part of the mix, but so are social business, brain science, systems thinking, and a bunch of other things.
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Become a chief meta-learning officer
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MAY 3, 2009
CLOs will neither prosper nor even survive if they fail to take responsibility for the overall learning process within their organizations. Organizations must seize the opportunity to change while things are in flux. The scope of the job of the CLO is mushrooming. Here’s why — and what to do about it.
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Taking advantage of the gift economy
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
Not a week goes by that the independent consultant doesn’t receive requests from corporations or organizations to give free advice or presentations. Organizations need to judge whether the consultant’s thinking is what they need. “I want your advice but I don’t have money to pay for it.&#.
Driven by demand
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 11, 2010
Organizations that focus on the supply side of the training they provide are looking at the wrong side of the equation. This webcast addresses the paradigm shift learning professionals must make to tap the enormous power of informal learning by the organization’s knowledge assets- their people.
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UMBC’s “ISD now!”
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
APRIL 20, 2010
Organizations that focus on the supply side of the training they provide are looking at the wrong side of the equation. This webcast addresses the paradigm shift learning professionals must make to tap the enormous power of informal learning by the organization’s knowledge assets- their people. slides & white paper.
Informal learning from the horse’s mouth
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now. Coach: Formal and structured learning can potentially promote efficient organization in long-term memory. Jay: Organization in a curriculum isn’t efficient unless it’s the right stuff.
New roles for former trainers
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 14, 2009
The organization receives improved performance on the job, continuous improvement, and increased innovation. The steward then selects the simplest technology to advance the community as both the technology and the organization mature. The steward continuously assesses the needs of the community and how well they are being met.
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40 Change or die
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JANUARY 13, 2011
As the economic environment improves, will the fear factor fade a bit and send organizations back to their old ways of relying mostly on numbers? LXB: How does that differentiate a new-era organization such as Google from a company such as Buggy Whips International? Cross: I am not giving up on managing, organizing, and controlling.
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52 Top Ten Trends from McKinsey
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
AUGUST 9, 2010
Trend 2: Making the network the organization. For example, the current issue describes Clouds, big data, and smart assets : Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch. Trend 1: Distributed cocreation moves into the mainstream. Trend 3: Collaboration at scale. Trend 4: The growing ‘Internet of Things’. Trend 5: Experimentation and big data.
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Who don’t we want to work smarter?
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JULY 5, 2009
Next month I’ll be conducting several onsite workshops to inject informal/social learning practices into hidebound organizations that are anxious to ramp up to the future. My intent is to challenge a couple of dozen managers to each come up with a major change project and shape up a pitch to sell the idea to their organization.
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Free webinar, Wednesday, February 16th
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Hear Jay Cross, a leading expert on informal learning, for a far-ranging conversation about how organizations are working – and training – smarter in the network era. Find out how smart businesses today are reaping the benefits of continuous, peer-to-peer learning and collaboration.
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46 Aspirations
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
You may have heard me spouting off about aligning the aspirations of workers with the organizations they work for. This falls on deaf ears in North America and most of Europe where we mistakenly think treating workers as humans intrudes on their privacy. In fact, getting worker aspirations clear (What do I want in life?)
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39 The New Social Learning
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
OCTOBER 7, 2010
A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media. Re: Second Life) It all seems too sic-fi, too unreal for my organization. The New Social Learning. By Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco. It’s risky to let anyone post anything. Our information is unique. This is all too expensive.
Jon Stewart litmus test
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JULY 4, 2009
Were Jon Stewart to look at how your organization helps people learn what you are asking them to do, what do you think he would say? Just a holiday thought. What are you going to do about it?
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36 togetherLearn is online
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
APRIL 19, 2009
If you’ve got a really thorny, vital, complex, organization-wide learning problem to solve, get in touch. Those of you who follow Jane Hart, Harold Jarche, Clark Quinn, or me may want to visit our new site ; it’s only a few hours old. Our premise, in its most abbreviated form, is that four heads are better than one.
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Internet culture
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 31, 2009
Transparency : Seeing the inside of an organization enables us to collaborate with it to make things better. You’ve got to know an organization or person to form a relationship. It’s hooking people up so they may learn from and with one another. People who hoard information shoot themselves in the foot: Nobody will know who they are.
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Centring on strengths at core of self-directed learning approach
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 2, 2009
Appearing in today’s issue of Axiom News, Building Better Organizations : Better to begin from positive assumptions about employees. He refers to David Cooperrider, champion of an approach called Appreciative Inquiry (AI), who is helping inspire organizations to build on their positive aspects through illustrative stories.
Get Out of the Training Business
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JANUARY 31, 2009
Management itself, the art of planning, organizing, deciding and controlling, will fall by the wayside. Organizing takes on new meaning when things self-organize. Hallowed laws, regulations, standards and memes will evaporate. After all, planning is suspect in an unpredictable world.
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A new model for training
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
The main objective of the new training department is to enable knowledge to flow in the organization. Organizations call on us for help building ecologies where work and learning are one and the same, where people help one another build competency and master new crafts, and where workers strive to be all they can be.
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40 Learning Styles
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
There is a thriving industry devoted to publishing learning-styles tests and guidebooks for teachers, and many organizations offer professional development workshops for teachers and educators built around the concept of learning styles.
Where Social Learning Thrives
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 12, 2010
People need to know where the organization is headed and why it matters. A garden requires tending, whereas a shed is built once. A social learning culture requires design, training, guidance, leadership, monitoring and celebrating successes, large and small.
Gazing down from the helicopter
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 20, 2010
Organizations are going around yesterday’s confining corporate boundaries to form closer ties with customers and collaborators. For example, executives look beyond mere execution to their readiness to change strategies. Managers who used to deal with training are focusing on whatever it takes to get the job done.
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An unpredictable conversation about informal learning
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 23, 2009
Jay Cross has advised hundreds of companies for over 30 years, this is your chance to ask him questions to better understand how your organization should be thinking about learning. This is what we will focus on in our webinar and it may be one of the more interesting and informative hours you spend this spring. Return on Investment.
Learning in times of economic meltdown
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JANUARY 11, 2009
This fluid state affords re-organizing, re-arranging, and replacing the status quo. The challenge for organizations is to use smart delivery, to replace classes with technology, to embrace open source, and perhaps to adopt a software-as-a-service model. Life-threatening crisis unfreezes organizational structure.
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36 Informal learning patterns
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JUNE 26, 2009
Learnscaping , Getting Things done in Organizations , is now available on Amazon for $25 + shipping. Learnscaping describes a dozen learning patterns, e.g. processes that organizations are using to improve performance through networked informal learning.
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Corporate Learning Trends: The Future of Organizational Learning
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 30, 2009
Where should an organization invest its time and resources going forward? On April 21, Corporate Learning Trends will focus on the Future of Organizational Learning and Development. We plan to explore the issues you want to talk about. Among the suggestions to-date: Show me the money. What does the Future of Learning look like?
After-Christmas Sale: Informal Learning
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JANUARY 2, 2010
Transform an organization from near-bankruptcy to record profits. This book relates the stories of how more than a dozen firms are using informal learning to: Increase sales by Google-izing product knowledge. Improve knowledge worker productivity 20% – 30%. Generate fresh ideas and increase innovation.
Transferring from Ning to Grou.ps
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
AUGUST 10, 2010
Many of these organizations have zero tech support. I was shocked and saddened when Ning announced that its free service was ending. Lots of non-profits had signed up on Ning. They were told to pay up or shut down. In essence, they were betrayed. They don’t know how to set up alternatives.
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52 Corporations need to catch up on open content
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Organizations give many reasons for blocking access to the net and YouTube, among them: - It is a drain on productivity. - Perhaps some of them can help you make the case for access to open content in your organization. togetherLearn and CLO magazine recently conducted a survey on meta-learning. It is a bandwidth issue.
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Straw Men
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JULY 8, 2010
This book is focused on informal learning, but when you assess what will work for your organization, consider how informal learning might supplement what you are doing now rather than replace it.&#. In Informal Learning , I wrote that, “Formal learning and informal learning are both-and, not either-or.
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The Engelbart Hypothesis
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
AUGUST 25, 2009
The culture, training, organizations, tools, artifacts and physical infrastructure all determine the capability of any individual or group to perform. Models for prolem-solving do not address the needed complexity. The solutions are too big for any one individual or any one discipline. This is the heart of what I’ve called Learnscapes.
Allen Tough, informal learning pioneer
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
DECEMBER 21, 2009
We found about 20 percent of all major learning efforts were institutionally organized, or it was like a driving school instructor or piano instructor, something like that. We found a 20/80% split. It was one-to-one, but it was still somebody you paid to teach you, so it was a professional formal situation.
Picky, picky
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MAY 29, 2009
I generally resist linking to organizations that monitor and use the ideas generated in the social/learning/tech space, and then produce reports that fail to acknowledge sources of inspiration. George Siemens echoes my feelings exactly in his post today on elearnspace titled Modernizing corporate training.
Rethinking conferences
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
FEBRUARY 17, 2009
The organization refunded registration fees for the handful who had signed up, and offered a credit toward a future event to offset the expense of canceling their flights. And I have MANY years at numerous conferences in different areas of emphasis from my academic discipline to compliance organization in higher ed).
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36 An example of informal learning from Europe
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
JANUARY 26, 2010
This knowledge since then is at Sara Lee leading in the decisions about investing in learning within the organization. After a desk research we found an astonishing amount of evidence that these employees at Sara Lee probably collectively made a quite adequate estimation of the time spent on the distinct learning activities.
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