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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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Tony Karrer

Top 2008 Posts based on Read Counts: 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 Test SCORM Courses with an LMS Request for Proposal (RFP) Samples Training Method Trends Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis SCORM Test Web 2.0

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

This paper addresses how organizations, particularly business organizations, can get more done. Workers who know more get more accomplished. Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning. How workers learn now. Execution is the goal.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

What worked twenty years ago doesn’t work well in the social, always-on, networked world of business we now inhabit. Service industries challenge workers to acquire tacit knowledge — the kind of know-how one learns on the job, not in the classroom. Training became a department and a standard facet of every business.