PDG

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this article, I will dig into how to leverage data/insights gained from technology in order to drive higher HCP engagement and improve interactions and effectiveness. Without effective pull-through among sales reps in the field, these technology investments will never deliver their full ROI.

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Disprz

JANUARY 24, 2023

Whether large or small, each company needs to take the necessary steps to build an effective onboarding process. An LMS can help you in simplify onboarding and make it more effective. This technology allows you to combine various content formats like videos, flashcards , blogs, and documents to engage new hires.

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Metrics LMS Knowledge Worker Pattern 52

Capytech

JANUARY 7, 2021

In a previous blog, we looked at the training challenges in the manufacturing sector that e-learning can help overcome. The Problem with Manufacturing Sector Knowledge Workers. There is one major challenge with manufacturing sector knowledge workers – there isn’t enough of them.

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Blended Learning Knowledge Worker Module Assessment 93

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Over the past few years, I spend part of December going back through my blog to recap a bit of what some of the key things I’ve learned over the course of the year. Learning Coach Model Very Powerful In 2010, I had a great experience where Dr. Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning.

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Text-to-Speech Compliance Training Diversity Training SharePoint 200

Jane Hart

APRIL 27, 2012

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance , recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action.

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Informal Learning Informal Blended Learning PKM 210

TalentLMS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Do you think this is an adverse effect of technology and the use of too many apps nowadays? ” In addition to app-related distraction, one of the biggest barriers to productivity for global knowledge workers—and factors directly into fueling work about work—is the amount of time spent on emailing and responding to messages.

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Knowledge Worker Communication Teams Productivity 91

Coursera

MAY 1, 2023

Digital transformation, automation, and globalization are creating a skilled worker shortage and an unprecedented need for reskilling and upskilling globally. The breathtaking rise of generative AI further compounds the urgency, as a new class of knowledge workers is now at risk of displacement.

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Job Report Research Skills 52

Allison Rossett

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

You have to know something to effectively use performance support for matters of meaning. Take knowledge workers like doctors and Army captains. < more on the relationship between training and PS now available on a sister blog > Let’s make a match. I don’t want to kick training to the curb.

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Performance Support Support Performance Training 144

Learning Pool

JULY 8, 2021

In this blog, we share our vision for the modern learning suite according to our research as well as a substantial weight of collective experience. . Businesses that have large numbers of tech-savvy knowledge workers may be more driven by the employee experience and the need to support self-directed learning.

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Suite Compliance Training Diversity Training Pedagogy 93

Disprz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Whether large or small, each company needs to take the necessary steps to build an effective onboarding process. An LMS can help you in simplifying the onboarding process and make it more effective. An LMS helps in creating impactful onboarding processes that will make the new knowledge and frontline employees more confident.

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LMS Metrics Knowledge Worker Module 52

Disprz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

fall in the category of knowledge workers. While employees directly facing the customers like delivery executives, restaurant waiters, retail sales reps, etc are considered frontline workers. A drastic change in the learning patterns of the frontline and knowledge workers has been visible pre and post-pandemic.

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Knowledge Skills Knowledge Worker Cognitive 52

Capytech

APRIL 24, 2023

As a result, workers will need to develop new skills. This is the first part of a two-part blog series on the skills that workers will need in the age of generative AI. With good AI prompting skills, workers will be better equipped to automate tasks, generate content, and solve complex problems faster and more efficiently.

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Skills Digital Write Blog Liability 40

Matrix

JUNE 22, 2017

Since it’s so hard to see crystal clear ROI for how more knowledgeable workers increase company profitability, training budgets are among the first to be cut in hard times. A cut training budget may positively affect cash flow in the short term, but may trigger some serious negative effects in the long run.

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Cost Blended Learning Effectiveness Online 45

Tony Karrer

APRIL 26, 2011

If you are reading this, you are a knowledge worker. Consider the content (knowledge, information, learning) you personally need to get your job done. And when you consider the trends for most concept workers (knowledge workers), we clearly are heading towards faster moving content aimed at smaller audiences.

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Knowledge Worker Agile Instructional Design eLearning Strategy 134

The Learning Circuits

MARCH 17, 2005

One of the prime rules of blogging has to be that good information can come from just about any source. But what did make me want to blog was ideas raised in another article in the newsletter entitled Three Rules for Sharing Informal Knowledge. The self-correcting effect that the author refers to is true, but takes time.

Informal Learning 40

Informal Learning Informal Blogging Wiki 40

Matrix

AUGUST 27, 2020

Many knowledge workers now perform their jobs remotely, while governments and individual business organizations look for ways to keep the world going. There are no precedents for these situations and the relations between cause and effect may seem blurry. Let’s look back at the last couple of months.

Business 96

Business Predictions Culture Knowledge Worker 96

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2009

, 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. Each of these allowed me to fast forward my learning and share knowledge effectively. So, why not look to make this more explicit and effective? If you think about it, Twitter, Blog Comments, etc.

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Diversity Training Scanning PWLE Case Study 109

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

APRIL 16, 2012

Hence it seems like social media is having opposite effect in organisation - that social media hinder reflection and deeper conversation. Without those practices the effect of social media may indeed be the opposite: people get overwhelmed with messages and experience loss of control. What is the core of the presentation for you?

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Social Media Media Social Scanning 195

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I discuss the Tilde Effect. Still I’ll stick with: The bottom line for the Tilde Effect is that we live in a time of incredible innovation that directly affect the methods we use to work and learn. And the focus of that post is really about general metacognitive tools and methods for knowledge workers.

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Tools Knowledge Worker eLearning Tools Methods 102

The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Meyer, addressed this issue in his blog for Forbes online: Any corporate learning professional will tell you that sales and leadership training need to be processes, not events. The learning cognoscenti know there are no shortcuts to effective learning. Likewise, today’s knowledge workers are asked to do more than just complete tasks.

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Culture Organization Diversity Training Metrics 120

Litmos

MARCH 4, 2021

It’s been a full year since Zoom became a tool most knowledge workers use daily. We talk about soft skills (or “people skills” or “ power skills “) a lot on this blog, and one of the most desirable of those sought-after skills in coworkers is punctuality. Best practices for video conferencing.

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Video ILT Brandon Hall WebEx 98

Disprz

AUGUST 23, 2021

Why learning agility is important for frontline and knowledge workers. Learning agility is the key to success in a post-pandemic world for both knowledge and frontline workers. The knowledge workers too are sailing in the same boat. They are getting poor ratings and the company is receiving negative reviews.

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Agile Blended Learning Skills Knowledge Worker 52

Litmos

APRIL 13, 2021

Retraining workers post-pandemic has become part of the national conversation in the United States. We’ve often written about reskilling on this blog, particularly in the wake of COVID-19. While many have lost their jobs due to COVID-19, the pandemic has had a particularly devastating effect on women in the workplace.

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Off-shore Brandon Hall SAP Policies 52

Learning with e's

APRIL 26, 2013

Even in the middle of my presentation (during a brief break in the workshop) I was still tinkering, adding an extra few slides which I had seen on Jane Hart''s blog that morning that were very relevant to my presentation. She talks about the five key ways knowledge workers like to learn today.

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Slides Knowledge Worker License Creative Commons 78

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In the past, I’ve always been successful finding good interactive writers because I can use techniques as described in LinkedIn for Finding Expertise and the rest of my LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers. In this case, that has not been effective. It doesn’t always work, but generally is pretty good. eLearning Technology.

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Interactive Write Blog Instructional Design Social Networks 100

ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

The book is a synthesis of years of collective experience, know-how, knowledge and deep passion for improving and enabling human performance. As an L&D professional, for me the book is a practical guide to the implementation of a more efficacious "workscape" and even tells me what my elevator pitch should be.

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Instructional Design Pattern Wikipedia Collaboration 137

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Knowledge Work Framework Tilde Effect Concept Worker Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning Tool Set 2009 Search Better Memory Network Learning Information Radar Remote Collaboration Common eLearning 2.0 Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 Any tips/resources?

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Social Networks ASTD Wiki eLearning 2.0 102

ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

I have come back to blogging after a hiatus of almost 5 months. Without the support of various online communities, I doubt if I would have had the fortitude or the skills required to do my work effectively. If anyone reading this is a knowledge worker and is thinking about working from home, read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow.

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Stock Skype Knowledge Worker Community 124

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Here's what he said: I just don't get why folks are trying to lump in wikis, blogs, rss, etc. RSS, Blog, Wikis, etc. So, why are they coming up in talks, blog posts, etc. But when you come out and essentially say that there's nothing that interesting about Wikis, Blogs and RSS when it comes to learning or Learning.

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Specialist Wiki RSS eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2006

From Wikipedia's description of Knowledge Economy , quoting Peter Drucker (1966): A manual worker works with his hands and produces "stuff". A knowledge worker works with his head and produces ideas, knowledge, and information. What's the most important skill of a knowledge worker? I would claim.

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Personal Learning Personal Personalization eLearning 2.0 100

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

One of the comments I received on Network Effects - YouTube - Video Blogs and More that had a video hosted on YouTube was: We see and hear more and more about corporate content published on YouTube. Corporations have not woke up to the need for knowledge workers to reach out for expertise. Tools Used in corporations.

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Web Corporate eLearning Social Networks eLearningGuild 140

Tony Karrer

JULY 21, 2010

In terms of finding people with experience on this, my first suggestion was using LinkedIn and particularly looking through LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers , LinkedIn for Finding Expertise , and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers. Of course, there’s no easy answers here, but lots we can discuss and learn around this.

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Forum Social Networks Discussion Case Study 115

Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2010

These are topics that are coming up in the participating blogs more during this time than they have in the past and that have good social signals. Google Buzz , Google Wave and PKM PKM stands for Personal Knowledge Management, which is a definite passion of mine (see Work Literacy and Social Media for Knowledge Workers ).

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Innovation Compliance Training Google Wave PKM 111

Clark Quinn

APRIL 10, 2006

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Blogging Knowledge Worker Effectiveness Knowledge 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year. open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it.

Predictions 198

Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Instilled

JULY 2, 2019

This blog post explores ways that L&D professionals can take advantage of having hyper-connected learners across the enterprise. A constant state of connection has grown increasingly common, especially for knowledge workers. Deliver Learning in the Flow of Work. Deliver Anytime, Anywhere Microlearning.

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Learning Technologies Technology Learner Communities of Practice 40

Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

Her work with various companies like Tata Interactive Systems, Zensar Technologies, ThoughtWorks and Future Group has given her a width of experience that spans instructional design, workplace learning strategy, knowledge management, social learning and community management, and people development.

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Social Networks Diversity Training Community Social Network 188