Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 23, 2009

He currently helps teams apply informal/web 2.0 He is the author of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance and Learnscaping: How to Get Things Done in Organizations. learning approaches to foster collaboration and accelerate performance. Please pass the word along.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Some of these consequences include unmotivated learners, reinforcement of the negative rather than maximizing the positive, unengaged workers and little authentic team building. He adds that the consequences of assuming the role of training is to fix what’s broken rather than make what’s already good better are “enormous and disastrous.”.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

The long tail : When it comes to learning opportunities, small businesses, esoteric specialists and fast-moving teams traditionally have been short-changed. More frequent reviews translate into less time invested in going down the wrong path. If someone says a project is finished, it is. It wasn’t worth the effort. Now you can.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Team Digital Preservation is back! - Visualisation, materialisation and affect - Purse Lip Square Jaw , September 15, 2009. Visual Overload and Visual Crowding – When More Means Less - Eide Neurolearning Blog , September 7, 2009. The Long Now Blog , September 23, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Thinking Theatre, events using a team meeting system with wireless keyboards to collectively respond to a sequence of questions that helps the audience experience/learn how to think/act like the keynote. Response 8 Great people Great opportunities to meet the great people Great food Great Technology.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

Recognizing that soft skills (or “emotional intelligence”) count twice as much in success as technical competence and IQ combined, performance improvement initiatives will make much more use of collaboration, team learning, small group activities, etc.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

Morris: In Return on Learning , Donald Vanthournout and his associates on Accenture’s Capability Development team claim that their firm achieved an ROI of 353% on its commitment to enterprise learning. Use amateur video and blogs to distribute information while it’s still fresh.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2008

For extra credit, you learn to play team sports, flirt with the opposite sex, drink beer, take tests, and butter up teachers. In school you learn to do your ABCs, speak French, recite poems, dissect frogs, complete geometry proofs, write essays, and explain the significance of 1776, 1789, and 3.1416. By and large, they’re right.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2008

Whenever we catch ourselves thinking of individual workers, let’s take a moment to consider whether we should be thinking of teams instead, as conversation is the wellspring of innovation, and innovation results from the creative friction of people with differing perspectives.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2008

Whenever we catch ourselves thinking of individual workers, let’s take a moment to consider whether we should be thinking of teams instead, as conversation is the wellspring of innovation, and innovation results from the creative friction of people with differing perspectives.

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