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Figure it out

E-Learning Provocateur

I suppose I’ve been lucky in the sense that, throughout my career, I’ve been able to align my curiosity and sense of direction with the needs of the business. Having said that, I also suppose I’ve created some of my own luck by keeping a few steps ahead of the business. As a knowledge worker, you never clock off.

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Personalization for Knowledge Workers

Xyleme

In this post I address use cases that apply to a high-skilled knowledge workforce. Personalization for the high-skill knowledge worker. To start, let’s look at the profile of a high skilled worker and view personalization through this lens. The Collaborative, High-Skill Worker. This is the story of Xyleme.

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A Brief History of AI

Learningtogo

Humans have been using machines to augment our capabilities for a long time, so it’s only natural that we’ve come to a point where we’re looking to replicate our cognitive processes in some of those machines. Alan Turing predicts that machines might one day mimic the cognitive functions of humans. A Brief History of AI.

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Harness human skills to build future-ready teams

CLO Magazine

For knowledge workers everywhere, the nature of work is shifting fast. Put another way, half of the skills knowledge workers have today will be useless in less than five years. Yet it has been proven to deliver substantial business benefits.

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Skills Capability Building – Knowledge Workforce VS Frontline Workforce

Disprz

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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21st Century Workplace Challenges

ID Reflections

This combination of weak ties with complicated, tacit knowledge is what Morten Hansen describes as the Molotov Cocktail, and this forms one of the 4 barriers to collaboration among decentralized units. If not, the cognitive differences between then may be little more than disconnected silos of ideas and thoughts.

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Your Workplace Can’t Be Dull or Dirty

CLO Magazine

Florida State University’s Joseph Grzywacz, the study’s lead researcher, wrote that there are both seen and unseen things in the workplace that can impact on workerscognitive function, namely cleanliness and complexity. You’re well aware of the value and importance of continuous learning to individuals and to the business.