Jane Hart’s post yesterday on The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business  got me thinking about the evolution of learning culture in organizations. It’s all to0 easy to mistakenly think of formal learning as the antiquated, primitive way of doing things, something an organization shucks off as it becomes enlightened and gives its people the autonomy to work on their own. Just as bicycles did not eliminate walking and cars did not do away with automobiles, informal learning doesn’t snuff out formal learning. MORE >>

Many of the typical methods of learning in the workplace make the learner a passive recipient of knowledge and skills. In this role, employees (as individuals, teams, or the organization as a whole) receive feedback about what they are doing and how they are doing it and, through individual and collective reflection, learn how to make themselves, their teams, and the enterprise more effective. Jane Hart has provided us with an excellent list of “passive” ways in which people learn in their workplaces. She includes: Company training  (face-to-face workshops and e-learning). MORE >>

These are my live blogged notes from Jay Cross & Clark Quinn’s LearnTrends session on Reinventing Organizational Learning. Article they wrote for CLO mag: “Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer&#. If you don’t know the solution & need to network/collaborate to find it, that’s learning. Internet Learning Alliance: They were all working independently, decided to work together and practice what they preach. Clark: “we’re the people who’ve retained our love of learning despite our education&#. expand venues. MORE >>

I have been deviating from the key themes of this blog, i.e., learning, performance, training and collaboration, for some time now. They are as much a part of me as all things learning. In the future too, I see this blog being intermittently peppered with posts unrelated to organizational learning but delineating experiences that are of personal import. With today’s post, I am back on the theme of learning and its impact on performance—personal and organizational. Building Expertise deals with learning and training as it needs to be. Maybe not. MORE >>

The key question we must ask ourselves is, “Are we learning anything? Communication Evaluation Organizational Learning data information knowledge listening presentation storytellingI like this quote by the Swedish author Henning Mankell that appeared in a Sunday New York Times op-ed column titled “ The Art of Listening ”:  “. Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. We are awash with data and information. MORE >>