The experiential informal learning workshop
Jay Cross
JUNE 24, 2012
Workshop announcement and pre-registration are here. First come, first served.
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Jay Cross
JUNE 24, 2012
Workshop announcement and pre-registration are here. First come, first served.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 21, 2008
If you want to attend my workshop December 3 in Berlin , you’d better sign up now and send me an email. You see, everyone in the workshop will receive a copy of Informal Learning and of Learnscaping, and I have to send the books now to get them there on time. It should be an exciting workshop. We have five places left.
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Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
On Tuesday, November 10, Clark Quinn and I will be leading a workshop entitled Be the Future of Organizational Learning: Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer in San Jose. This workshop will make the case for a more agile organization, and discuss what that means in very specific terms, covering skills, culture, and technology.
Jay Cross
JUNE 13, 2012
Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Workshop begins mid-July 2012. This is the alpha version of this workshop. This workshop is not a course. Here’s a preliminary description. with Jay Cross. You learn by doing. Objectives.
Jay Cross
JUNE 6, 2013
Yet research finds that people forget the majority of what they learn in workshops and classrooms. Typically, only 15% of what’s covered in a workshop ever shows up on the job! There’s no point in learning something if you forget it before you can put it to use.
Jay Cross
JULY 3, 2012
At mLearnCon, I chatted with Float’s Jeff Tillett for a few minutes about why people should be interested in my experiential learning workshop. Jeff and I chat about mLearning, Tin Can, innovation, happiness, neuroscience, and my upcoming experiential workshop. You can hear the entire conversation on the Float Learning Blog.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 6, 2011
Yesterday I attended a beta workshop conducted by Jerry Michalski on the wecono.me (We+Economy), an application of the principles of the Relationship Economy. The workshop design calls for learning the process by looking into a field that’s not your own. What is the Relationship Economy? Here’s the opening salvo.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 9, 2011
Last Tuesday I delivered a workshop in Sao Paulo on informal learning to clients of fast-moving Brasilian learning company Affero. I’ll let the graphic recorders tell the story.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Workshops are considered a great opportunity to train teams. GLOBO: Workshops are just for freshmen? The worker learns with much more experience than workshops. Courses and workshops are great for anyone who lacks structure and knowledge in a subject. Then I cleaned up obvious misreads and goofs.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 27, 2012
We’re all novices at some things so even senior people shouldn’t write off attending the occasional workshop. Standing around the water cooler is not the best way to learn algebra. Furthermore, it’s a fast-changing world.
Jay Cross
JULY 2, 2012
More skinny about the experiential workshop at the Informal Learning Center. If you want to join me, better hurry up. There are only nine seats on this bus.
Jay Cross
JULY 8, 2012
Jay Cross experiential informal learning workshop.
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 19, 2012
Dan attends a workshop on improv with Cathy Salit. It so happens that I’ve taken the same workshop. Do you have a positive or negative outlook? Do you catastrophize? Find the right problem. Ask good questions. Frame things right. Dan draws a lot of lessons from it.
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 17, 2009
At DevLearn 09, Mark Oehlert led several days of non-stop workshops on social learning. Here’s ten minutes on the topic of identity and authenticity. This is the first of a series of videos I shot for display at Online Educa.
Jay Cross
MARCH 3, 2012
Think of an event — a workshop, a class, a meeting, or a presentation. Here are the three phases of the Up To All of Us workshop I attended in Sedona last week: Beginning. Something always comes before and there’s always an aftermath. All too often, we neglect the Beginning and Next phases.
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 9, 2011
Shell’s Willem Manders and Hans de Zwart led a dynamite pre-conference workshop. You might want to check out Learning Technology in European Businesses 2011 , a report from Toward Maturity that was issued at the event. Participants created four scenarios for the future environment of learning. It’s compelling.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 10, 2008
Tomorrow I have to place orders for the books I’ve giving to participants in my workshop in Berlin in early December. The workshop will be a fanciful trip across a high Alpine road in Austria. Working with ideas can make you forget that physical things take time. In a Bugatti Veyron.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 12, 2012
A major obstacle confronting L&D people participating in Internet Time Alliance workshops on social and informal learning is the difficulty of letting go of the course concept and the sense of control it gives designers, planners, and instructors. Join me next week for a simple game.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 11, 2012
We’re not talking classes and workshops here. This is a major break from the past — and an opportunity for L&D professionals to become essential contributors to their organizations. Learning is no longer optional. Continuous improvement and delighting customers require a culture of pervasive learning.
Jay Cross
JUNE 3, 2009
Public speaking, like writing, forces me to sharpen my thinking, and that, in turn, improves my coaching and workshop sessions with corporate clients. The next week in Madrid, my workshop will focus on informal learning: what it is, how to take advantage of it, and who’s been doing a good job thus far.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 6, 2015
Attend workshops and be certified. Learn techniques and practices to apply back home. Socialize with members of their profession. Find out about new products, kick the tires, hear from vendors. Learn the basics of L&D from experts. Get out of the office day-to-day scramble, retreat, break routine.
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 31, 2012
I may write a book or an ebook, or show companies how happiness boosts the bottom line, or lead workshops, or all these and more. ” Me too. I don’t know how I am going to play Santa year round. I’m certain to be discussing the topic here. I’m open to your suggestions. Life is for learning.
Jay Cross
APRIL 30, 2008
Yesterday we experimented with adding our abbreviated, outside opinions to a workshop I was taking part in. The workshop was an in-house, intensive session on innovation taking place at a Fortune 200 manufacturing company in the Midwest.
Jay Cross
APRIL 28, 2012
Listening to a lecture or attending a workshop are primarily formal learning. People generally learn informally to get something done, and it’s the ability to do something that demonstrates that learning took place. Asking questions of co-workers or trial-and-error are informal. This is the first post of many.
Jay Cross
MARCH 29, 2015
It’s all a matter of learning, but it’s not the sort of learning that is the province of training departments, workshops, and classrooms. In a few seconds, it reduced my 116-page manuscript to 10 items. You are learning to learn how to become the person you wrote the obit for. It’s learning to know versus learning to be.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 2, 2010
Workshop participants practice project elevator pitches. Last month I conducted several workshops to inject informal and social learning practices into hidebound organizations that were anxious to ramp up to the future. Workshops. Kevin Wheeler and Murray Christensen laugh at Talent Management. Design Thinking.
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 2, 2008
My workshop on Social Learning and the Web is tomorrow. Just getting ready. Unfortunately, the German Embassy in London denied a visa to the Oxford student who was going to assist me because (1) she’s Chinese and (2) they are officious bureaucrats. Furthermore, the books I spent $2,000+ to ship here are nowhere in sight. And so it goes.
Jay Cross
JULY 3, 2008
Time after time in my recent workshops on web-enabled informal learning, I found myself using my own sites as examples of learning technologies. The focus of my workshops is shifting, too. I began showing things like my research tools page , which has always been public but was hidden in plain sight.
Jay Cross
MARCH 13, 2011
Not that I am giving up on this one: Experience is still a more important teacher in the workplace than classes or workshops. My colleagues at Internet Time Alliance and I have been discussing new models for learning.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 12, 2009
Last month I conducted several workshops to inject informal and social learning practices into hidebound organizations that were anxious to ramp up to the future. Seasoned employees are not going to flock to classes and workshops; they have work to do. CLO Magazine, October 2009. Whose Learning Are You Responsible For? by Jay Cross.
Jay Cross
MAY 13, 2008
Our one-day un workshops in Sydney and Melbourne the following week will dig deeper into these and other findings about adoption of social network software, enterprise 2.0 Take three minutes to complete the survey yourself. I’ll send you the results when we have them. tools, impact of communities, and learning from mistakes,
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 2, 2008
My workshop on Social Learning and the Web is tomorrow. Stephen Citron December 10, 2008 at 11:05 pm Jay, It was great to meet you in Berlin, and thank you for participating with us in our workshop. Here’s to our next meeting… Mattias Wirf December 10, 2008 at 12:24 pm Oh, I love Berlin, wish I was there Have a nice time.
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
In addition to implementing social learning systems for universities and corporations, she leads workshops on social learning and somehow finds time to maintain the most useful learning site on the net, the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. I don’t know how my friend and colleague Jane Hart does it.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
Kurt Hanks led a two-day workshop on Paradigm Mapping before the official two-day event kicked off. We came together at Up to All of Us to compare notes, find connections, and share the tools of our craft. Sedona is a magic spot in the high desert, about two hours north of Phoenix.
Jay Cross
APRIL 28, 2012
Studies find that only 15% of what’s learning in formal workshops shows up as changed behavior on the job. QUESTION: How do you know if people really learn this way? ANSWER: You ask them how they learned to do what they’re doing. Can informal learning do any worse? Despite the criticism, many readers were very supportive.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 3, 2012
Support learning experiences in the workplace and concentrate on what it takes to meet organizational objectives rather than running workshops. Focus on improving the overall learning ecosystem. Learning is social. We learn more from our co-workers, our bosses, our customers, our partners, and our friends than from our teachers and books.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
A new CEO favors management development workshops. They agree on a path to get there: on-the-job learning, coaching, books, and other means. Nearly four years later, LSI is letting some training creep back in. Compliance and certification had never really gone away. Training is allowed, but other development options are encouraged first.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 11, 2010
captured a few minutes of Verna leading a workshop on Value Networks last fall: Might Value Networks be the appropriate measurement system for optimizing Wirearchy ? She uses the system map to spot bottlenecks and relationships that need improvement; managers need to focus on the white space between the nodes. Emerge, converge, and know.I
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Graphic Facilitation Workshop from #sfrome - Nancy White , September 29, 2011. Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does! - Jane Hart , September 12, 2011. Social networks drive Innovation - Harold Jarche , September 12, 2011. Social Learning is NOT a new training trend - Jane Hart , September 25, 2011.
Jay Cross
MARCH 20, 2011
Using Twitter in a face-to-face Workshop - Social Media for Working & Learning , May 2, 2010. The connected company - Dave Gray , February 8, 2011. 7 Shifts: The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications - Ross Dawson , August 31, 2010. Wikipedia – Explained By Common Craft - Lee LeFever , May 25, 2010.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 18, 2013
Workshops, programmed instruction, and Kahn Academy can teach Rational Knowledge. It’s Newtonian clockwork, an equal and opposite reaction for every action. It is formulaic, yes or no, and reductionist. It deals with facts. It’s true no matter who is looking. Training departments help people learn the Rational. The Explicit and the Tacit.
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