Athens to Istanbul
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
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Writing down your learning goals increases the odds you will accomplish them
Jay Cross
AUGUST 11, 2015
“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”. Lee Iococca. Do write down your goals? Share them with others? Dr. Gail Matthews, a psychology professor at Dominican University in California, says you are 42 percent more likely to achieve your goals just by writing them down. Take our brief survey. Create your own user feedback survey.
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Conferences can be better, a whole lot better
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? I concluded that: Flipping conference presentations can vastly improve learning outcomes.
Two types of knowledge
Jay Cross
JULY 27, 2015
Explicit Knowledge. #1 is explicit knowledge. By definition, explicit knowledge can be captured in words. It’s the facts. Answers on Jeopardy. Tree/false tests. Retention of explicit knowledge is easily measured and graded and for that reason it’s where tests focus, over-simplified or not. We grade recent recall, but people have forgotten 90% of what they learned before they have the opportunity to apply it.
New Book from Jay. Almost.
Jay Cross
MAY 5, 2015
The draft of my new book, Aha!, 21 Ways to Work Smarter and Become Who You Are , is on sale for $12. I don’t write books the way I used to. I have Lean Fever. Now I write the best I can rapidly and make it available for pioneering readers who provide feedback. Given enough iterations, this will be one fantastic book. I slipstream new content into the book continuously.
FamilarLand
Jay Cross
APRIL 30, 2015
My professional interest is shifting to helping knowledge workers learn and flourish without training. There are millions of harried people out there who don’t appreciate that learning is a skill that you can get better at. It’s the underground passageway to success. I’d rather work with them directly. Thinking about learning from the learner’s point of view is different from looking on it as a learning executive or instructional designer.
DIY Learning
Jay Cross
APRIL 24, 2015
I’m writing a book on learning for oneself, without training. It’s for knowledge workers and bosses who have been told “You’re responsible for your own learning.” I imagine they feel like the dog who got on the bus. “What do I do now?” Aha! is a book for people and small groups of colleagues who are taking their professional development into their own hands.
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