Jay Cross

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Learning Without Training

Jay Cross

Usually it’s training before and pull learning after, that is, from training to what Jane Hart has called learning without training. Here are a few examples of learning before and after instituting the learning infrastructure we call a Workscape. Note what’s happening here.

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Training magazine, RIP

Jay Cross

Nielsen Business Media is shutting down Training magazine and its companion Web site, trainingmag.com. I first saw Training magazine in 1977. At the time I didn’t know the training business from a hole in the ground. Training helped professionalize a rag-tag industry. Training taught me many lessons.

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Training departments: wake up, smell coffee

Jay Cross

HR and training departments that aren’t actively supplementing their legacy training with social learning are not long for this world. Social networks are the carrier wave of corporate conversations. Hence, the preponderance of learning in corporations is going to take place in social networks.

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How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)

Jay Cross

In the Hierarchical organization, employees were the only people who received corporate training. Aside from compliance training and new product introductions, most training focused on novices – either newhires who needed orientation or workers mastering a new skill or subject. Who’s going to be involved?

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How to replace top-down training with collaborative learning (1)

Jay Cross

Businesses around the world are transforming into extended enterprise networks but their training departments are stuck in the previous century. So, imagine the training department just disappeared because our organization has shifted from Hierarchical to Collaborative, and learning has become everyone’s business.

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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (4)

Jay Cross

Hierarchical organizations train employees. We asked what would give us the biggest bang in a Collaborative Organization if we didn’t even have a training department. Hierarchical and network-era (2012) companies Collaborative. Control in Hierarchical companies resides at the top. Workers and supervisors have a large say.

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Close the training department?

Jay Cross

No More Training. An astute VP at LSI Logic was concerned with the meager results of the company’s classroom training. He wanted LSI to focus more on building competencies and less on training events. Workers at LSI had been happy to pick and choose traditional training from a buffet of offerings. Cold turkey.