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Getting Started With E-Learning for Manufacturers

Capytech

Shift Towards Knowledge. In the past, manufacturing companies required workers to perform repetitive tasks. These tasks could be on the production line or in other parts of the business, from machine maintenance to procurement to quality control and product traceability. What it means is they need a different type of worker.

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The Skills Gap –  The Correlation Between Training & the Skills Gap – Part III

Jigsaw Interactive

Companies that are willing to hire people with the right intelligence, background, attitude, values, and instincts and train them for specific skills don’t need to worry about a skills gap. Take international business analytics software and services giant SAS, for example. If you made the right hires, you can teach the right skills.

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The Future of Work and Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Co-working – For cost reasons or social reasons or convenience, workers are choosing to share work space with people from other occupations and organizations. Sometimes they start out in business incubators and then grow into a more cooperative arrangement.

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The Role of Training in the Wider Productivity Puzzle

OpenSesame

Skills have a major bearing on workforce productivity – especially in developed economies where the majority of employees are knowledge workers. So why is it that systemic under-training and inappropriate training methods are commonplace in today’s business environment, leading to skill gaps and a decline in productivity?

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The Role of Training in the Wider Productivity Puzzle

OpenSesame

Skills have a major bearing on workforce productivity – especially in developed economies where the majority of employees are knowledge workers. So why is it that systemic under-training and inappropriate training methods are commonplace in today's business environment, leading to skill gaps and a decline in productivity?

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Agile, Lego and Training: The common factors.

ID Reflections

Agile means the willingness to be in a perpetual state of Beta, accepting that there is no closure, can be no closure with information, requirements, needs, business opportunities changing at lightning speed. This mindset plays a critical role in understanding the business goals of a training program. The rest will take care of itself.

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Workscaping, part 1 of n

Jay Cross

Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. The workscaping viewpoint helps knowledge workers become more effective professionally and fulfilled personally.