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Internet Time Alliance Predictions for 2013

Jay Cross

Some will take steps to use their financial and people resources and exploit new ways of working and learning. Further, we’ll see more examples of the notion of a ‘performance ecosystem’ of resources aligned around individual needs and responsibilities, instead of organized around the providing silos. Clark Quinn.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Why do training departments and CLOs spend so much of their time and resources on the 10% when there is plenty to do to up the 90%? Encourage experimentation, delegate stretch assignments, provide opportunities to apply new skills in real situations, involve people in challenging projects, and rotate assignments. Silos crumble.

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Checklist: transforming corporate learning

Jay Cross

establish a governance policy that ties L&D to organizational mandates and provides a vehicle for resolving priority calls. provide case studies and examples to help people become self-sufficient “pull” learners. articulate the vision and value of Working Smarter to executive management.

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15 essentials for successful learning

Jay Cross

Make sure resources are readily available and easy to find. Whenever possible, provide choices. Provide feeds for what’s going on in the team, the department, the company, the industry, and technical disciplines. I’d forgotten that I’d written the earlier list.). Most learning is self-directed.

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Flip your meetings

Jay Cross

You prepare in advance at your own pace with resources framing the business issue. Provide the content and purpose beforehand, use face-to-face time for interactive problem-solving. Provide links to relevant documents and reference materials. It’s called Flipping the Meeting. It flippin’ works. You can do it. Before the meeting.

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Flipping Corporate Learning

Jay Cross

The video can provide content in small, digestible pieces. Second, presenting content in short, bite-size chunks, rather than monolithic hourlong lectures, is better suited to students’ attention spans, and provides the flexibility to tailor instruction to individual students. This takes a sound learning ecosystem, a workscape.

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Timing is Everything

Jay Cross

Right now your mind is looking to the past for viable solutions or monitoring present resources or scanning the future for new opportunities. That explains why I get upset with Past thinkers who slam me for not providing footnotes and with Present thinkers who want to hold up the show for something I consider inconsequential.