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Active and Passive Learning in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

External personal and professional networks and communities (including online social networks like Facebook and Twitter). Here are ten of these “active” ways of learning in organizations that I would add to Hart’s list: Action learning (structured reflection on one’s own actions and experience).

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Do You Know How to Create an Actionable Learning Strategy?

CLO Magazine

Engaged employees are proactive, supportive, willing to teach others and help them learn. Open social networks: Most learning takes place socially, through daily interactions with peers and others, outside of formal learning events. That’s when employees go above and beyond what is normally expected.

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Year in Review - 2016

The Performance Improvement Blog

I wish it were otherwise, but learning is not just a classroom activity anymore, it must be a total system activity that takes into account strategic goals of the organization, the culture of the organization (values, beliefs, artifacts, structure, etc.), external inputs (home life, economy, social network, competition, etc.),

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Learning Outcomes

Tony Karrer

We aren't sure what they will learn." and Jay Cross responds: In a business context, isn't learning enough to accomplish the objective sufficient? At a more fundamental level, the massive swing from the industrial age to the network era is accompanied by pervasive uncertainty. To them, it's not learning at all.

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Aligning Employee Learning with the Organization

The Performance Improvement Blog

I wish it were otherwise, but learning is not just a classroom activity anymore, it must be a total system activity that takes into account strategic goals of the organization, the culture of the organization (values, beliefs, artifacts, structure, etc.), external inputs (home life, economy, social network, competition, etc.),

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What is social learning (and how to adopt it)

Docebo

While there remains a need for formal training environments to meet specific learning outcomes, the necessity for organizations to leverage platforms that enable social and informal learning, where learners network, share, collaborate, and exchange ideas to solve problems, is paramount.

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July bonanza at Working Smarter Daily

Jay Cross

Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.