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Insight Curation: Are We Accelerating or Protecting Productivity?

Living in Learning

The quality of those well-intended distributions, often via email attachments, or postings to knowledge bases, or communities of practice forums, or corporate shared drives, or SharePoint…or…or…or…are somewhat scattered. That's Point-of-Work, and that's where we can accelerate and protect productivity.

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Jay Cross – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. Then I want the L&D manager to go back to the manager, assess the results, and figure out how to do better next time. They need to be partners.

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Reflections from May trip to Italy, UK, and Netherlands

Jay Cross

Personal Assessment. A majority of creative knowledge workers will leave Pre-college for a new form of internship, where continuing education and experiential learning co-exist. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE. Chefs are my favorite example of organic communities of practice. What’s out there?

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JAY CROSS – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. Then I want the L&D manager to go back to the manager, assess the results, and figure out how to do better next time. They need to be partners.

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PDR Design Model Supports Shift to Learning Design in the Work Context

Living in Learning

If knowledge workers are not in training, they must be at work. The traditional chain of events that unfold usually include a training needs assessment, and if memory serves me, that focused on features, functions and benefits of the new drug, the core components of any sales training effort worth its salt. This is not a drill.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Community members should be able to perform one or more of the five roles described in the table that follows. The road ahead : I am presently developing detailed role descriptions, community guidelines, role assessment tools, and the identification of appropriate learning products and offerings. Standard assessment At.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. A great industrial worker might be half again as productive as his middle-of-the road peer. These people need the room to excel.