Leave Learning to Employees. By Kate Everson. CLO magazine November 2015. This article describes the CLO of Kaplan as he adapts to a world where employees can route around learning to find their own content. They don’t need him any more. MORE
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Yesterday I came upon a 13-year old cassette recording of Peter Henschel, executive director of the Institute for Research on Learning , speaking to a breakout session at Elliott Masie’s TechLearn conference. This talk had a profound effect on my thinking. It holds up damn well today. MORE
Where organic, bottom-up meets corporate top-down. An article entitled Why Organizations Don’t Learn by Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats in the November 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review caught my eye. The resemblance of their suggestions and the content of Real Learning is uncanny. MORE
American business people attend 11,000,000 business meetings every day and half of it’s a waste of time. Knowledge workers spend three hours a day in meetings. Senior executives spend more. Four out of five of us have brought other work to do during a meeting. One in ten of us admits to daydreaming. MORE
The conference business is booming yet every participant has some major gripe about the way conferences are run. We all think we know better. It goes with the territory. In the beginning of the year, I looked into the future of conferences. Would they go the way of record stores and newspapers? MORE
Explicit Knowledge. #1 1 is explicit knowledge. By definition, explicit knowledge can be captured in words. It’s the facts. Answers on Jeopardy. Tree/false tests. MORE
I’ve been depressed. Telling you this will blow my chances of running for president, but what the hell: I have been clinically depressed for the last two years. It’s a form of going crazy. I lost interest in my work, stopped blogging and taking photos. I became a near-hermit. . MORE
Enterprise Learning takes learning beyond the training department into the overall extended enterprise, the “Workscape.” ” It’s a breakout that’s happening throughout organizations as they embrace digital technology. MORE
Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. It can save millions, reduce frustration, and boost the velocity of information in your organization. It starts in a gallery. You expect the curator of an art gallery to know the collection and to: search out the best items. MORE
These are graphics from the. current edition of Real Learning. The Real Learning Project. The Real Learning Book. Buy Real Learning for $2.99. Real Learning MORE
Setting goals, reflecting daily, taking risks, and doing experiments prime the brain for spotting opportunities and working smarter. Real Learning. Real Learning MORE
Excerpt from interview with Learnnovators. Learnnovators: We are excited about having reviewed your new book Real Learning. We couldn’t agree more with Laura Overton (Founder & CEO, Towards Maturity) that this is a manual to empower self-directed learners in really practical ways. MORE
I wrote this post in Thursday, December 08, 2005, but I’m reposting it here because some people still have not got the message. MORE
An intimate group of Fortune 50 CLOs invited me to talk with them about how to make the most of informal learning. Jane, Charles, Clark, Harold and I chatted at length. We came up with twenty-four suggestions which I’ll soon walk the CLOs through. MORE
50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10. part 1 of 5. People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. Effective managers make stretch. assignments and coach their team members. Experience is the teacher, and managers shape those experiences. MORE
I’m writing this from the first class cabin on a United flight from Houston to Munich. We have been plied with champagne, prosciutto, steak, cheese, (had to pass on the salad and ice cream sundae courses), free-flowing wine, and cognac. I’m sitting in a comfortable wide seat that converts into a bed. MORE
72% of eighteen Fortune 100 CLOs told me their people are not growing fast enough to keep up with the needs of the business. . MORE
How to learn socially, experientially, and informally. Learn how to learn. Real Learning in Pictures (illustrations from the book). Coherent Organization Collaboration Real Learning MORE
On its inaugural voyage in 1952, the sleek S.S. United States set the record for an Atlantic crossing (3 1/2 days) and more than sixty years later, the record still stands. The United States was the Concorde of its day: high tech, expensive, and luxurious, the fastest way across the ocean. MORE
It’s time once again to contribute to Jane Hart’s annual survey of tools for learning. I was the first person to take part in this project some nine years ago and now it’s an annual ritual. It’s enlightening to review what’s best in the toolbox. MORE
The price of the pdf version of Real Learning will increase from $2.99 to $6.99 on October 25th, a week from today. Buy enough for your team now. At $2.99 a pop, you could issue a wake-up call to everyone on your floor for a few hundred bucks. Buy Real Learning here. MORE
At a Stanford education conference this morning, speakers made presentation after presentation without once involving the audience, not even asking for questions. For the first couple of hours there was zero audience participation. MORE
To see Big Data at work, look to Google, where number-crunching on a massive scale has changed hiring and management practices. Measurements and analytics rule at Google. All people decisions at Google are based on data and analytics,” according to Kathryn Dekas, a manager in Google’s “people analytics” team. Google’s conclusions have a bearing on where CLOs should be focusing their efforts. MORE
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ” –George Bernard Shaw. is becoming Real Learning. The old name didn’t fit the book. captures the spirit of “Oh, I see; that’s how you do it.” ” Cool. Unfortunately, the term Aha! MORE
My new book, Aha!, is for all those people we’ve made responsible for their own learning. This is the missing manual. explains self-assessment, setting goals, dealing with feeds and flows, improving retention, curation, working out loud, social learning, and more. MORE
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” ” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance. While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook. MORE
Your Workscape is everything in your organization except the training department. It’s where work is done and where people hone the skills they need to add value. It’s the biggest frame of the big picture. It’s relationships and culture and secret sauce. It’s the organization as organism. MORE
Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. implementing 70-20-10 is not simple. Sharing 50 suggestions on putting 70-20-10 to work has consumed five posts spread over two months. Today the series is complete. MORE
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 21, 2015
Where organic, bottom-up meets corporate top-down. An article entitled Why Organizations Don’t Learn by Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats in the November 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review caught my eye. The resemblance of their suggestions and the content of Real Learning is uncanny.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 24, 2015
How to learn socially, experientially, and informally. Learn how to learn. Real Learning in Pictures (illustrations from the book). Coherent Organization Collaboration Real Learning
Jay Cross
JULY 22, 2015
My new book, Aha!, is for all those people we’ve made responsible for their own learning. This is the missing manual. explains self-assessment, setting goals, dealing with feeds and flows, improving retention, curation, working out loud, social learning, and more.
Jay Cross
APRIL 29, 2015
Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. It can save millions, reduce frustration, and boost the velocity of information in your organization. It starts in a gallery. You expect the curator of an art gallery to know the collection and to: search out the best items.
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Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Setting goals, reflecting daily, taking risks, and doing experiments prime the brain for spotting opportunities and working smarter. Real Learning. Real Learning
Jay Cross
MAY 26, 2015
Your Workscape is everything in your organization except the training department. It’s where work is done and where people hone the skills they need to add value. It’s the biggest frame of the big picture. It’s relationships and culture and secret sauce. It’s the organization as organism.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 22, 2015
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” ” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance. While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook.
Jay Cross
MARCH 3, 2015
I’ve been depressed. Telling you this will blow my chances of running for president, but what the hell: I have been clinically depressed for the last two years. It’s a form of going crazy. I lost interest in my work, stopped blogging and taking photos. I became a near-hermit. .
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Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ” –George Bernard Shaw. is becoming Real Learning. The old name didn’t fit the book. captures the spirit of “Oh, I see; that’s how you do it.” ” Cool. Unfortunately, the term Aha!
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
An intimate group of Fortune 50 CLOs invited me to talk with them about how to make the most of informal learning. Jane, Charles, Clark, Harold and I chatted at length. We came up with twenty-four suggestions which I’ll soon walk the CLOs through.
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Excerpt from interview with Learnnovators. Learnnovators: We are excited about having reviewed your new book Real Learning. We couldn’t agree more with Laura Overton (Founder & CEO, Towards Maturity) that this is a manual to empower self-directed learners in really practical ways.
Jay Cross
MAY 31, 2015
At a Stanford education conference this morning, speakers made presentation after presentation without once involving the audience, not even asking for questions. For the first couple of hours there was zero audience participation.
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Jay Cross
OCTOBER 9, 2015
On its inaugural voyage in 1952, the sleek S.S. United States set the record for an Atlantic crossing (3 1/2 days) and more than sixty years later, the record still stands. The United States was the Concorde of its day: high tech, expensive, and luxurious, the fastest way across the ocean.
Jay Cross
JULY 29, 2015
The conference business is booming yet every participant has some major gripe about the way conferences are run. We all think we know better. It goes with the territory. In the beginning of the year, I looked into the future of conferences. Would they go the way of record stores and newspapers?
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Leave Learning to Employees. By Kate Everson. CLO magazine November 2015. This article describes the CLO of Kaplan as he adapts to a world where employees can route around learning to find their own content. They don’t need him any more.
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Jay Cross
OCTOBER 19, 2015
These are graphics from the. current edition of Real Learning. The Real Learning Project. The Real Learning Book. Buy Real Learning for $2.99. Real Learning
Jay Cross
APRIL 6, 2013
Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. implementing 70-20-10 is not simple. Sharing 50 suggestions on putting 70-20-10 to work has consumed five posts spread over two months. Today the series is complete.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 27, 2015
It’s time once again to contribute to Jane Hart’s annual survey of tools for learning. I was the first person to take part in this project some nine years ago and now it’s an annual ritual. It’s enlightening to review what’s best in the toolbox.
Jay Cross
MARCH 8, 2015
72% of eighteen Fortune 100 CLOs told me their people are not growing fast enough to keep up with the needs of the business. .
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FEBRUARY 12, 2013
50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10. part 1 of 5. People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. Effective managers make stretch. assignments and coach their team members. Experience is the teacher, and managers shape those experiences.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 18, 2015
The price of the pdf version of Real Learning will increase from $2.99 to $6.99 on October 25th, a week from today. Buy enough for your team now. At $2.99 a pop, you could issue a wake-up call to everyone on your floor for a few hundred bucks. Buy Real Learning here.
Jay Cross
JULY 7, 2013
Yesterday I came upon a 13-year old cassette recording of Peter Henschel, executive director of the Institute for Research on Learning , speaking to a breakout session at Elliott Masie’s TechLearn conference. This talk had a profound effect on my thinking. It holds up damn well today.
Jay Cross
APRIL 4, 2015
These are my core beliefs about how to get along in the world. I wrote this post fourteen years ago and rediscovered it this morning. I’m amazed at the consistency of what I believe.
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Jay Cross
MARCH 3, 2015
Enterprise Learning takes learning beyond the training department into the overall extended enterprise, the “Workscape.” ” It’s a breakout that’s happening throughout organizations as they embrace digital technology.
Jay Cross
JUNE 10, 2014
To see Big Data at work, look to Google, where number-crunching on a massive scale has changed hiring and management practices. Measurements and analytics rule at Google. All people decisions at Google are based on data and analytics,” according to Kathryn Dekas, a manager in Google’s “people analytics” team. Google’s conclusions have a bearing on where CLOs should be focusing their efforts.
Jay Cross
APRIL 11, 2013
I wrote this post in Thursday, December 08, 2005, but I’m reposting it here because some people still have not got the message.
Jay Cross
MARCH 10, 2015
is a set of practices I’m developing to help pull-workers learn to learn. I’m investigating what it takes for a learner to become self-sufficient, to both learn and design learning experiences. I’d like to make that easier.
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Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 13, 2015
I’m writing this from the first class cabin on a United flight from Houston to Munich. We have been plied with champagne, prosciutto, steak, cheese, (had to pass on the salad and ice cream sundae courses), free-flowing wine, and cognac. I’m sitting in a comfortable wide seat that converts into a bed.
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