The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 20, 2012

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. It's fascinating to think about the possibilities.

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Diversity Training Trends Learning Global 246

Learning Pool

JUNE 9, 2020

The world as painted by my teachers and career advisors has been and gone, the roles that drive businesses didn’t exist then and the skills they highlighted as differentiators have already been moved to the minimum expectations or no longer required. The reality is, the transition to the future has already begun and it’s amazing.

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Skills Cognitive Library Trends 71

Learnnovators

JULY 20, 2015

As the Senior Partner of Bob Little Press & PR , you have been providing business-to-business public relations (PR) services to many organizations in the ‘learning’ and ‘learning technologies’ industry for years. After 25 years in the business, I’m still learning things about PR. THE INTERVIEW: 1. Learnnovators: Hi Bob.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Virtual Classroom Press 170

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

The average knowledge worker has access to an increasingly large set of information resources and corporate learning is an ever smaller part of this set. Cost is most often not a factor in a knowledge workers decision about the use of information. How do we foster knowledge worker skills?

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Long Tail Attention Corporate Learning Corporate eLearning 111

Disprz

MAY 31, 2021

Renowned names of the industry like Amazon, Starbucks, Coca-Cola have used analytics to derive critical behavioral insights to enhance business operations and improve customer satisfaction. Learning programs are often implemented by a company to help employees produce certain business outputs. But is that sufficient?

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Analytics Skills ROI Metrics 52

Training Industry

OCTOBER 28, 2013

If businesses are honest, the fears they have about digital badging and credibility, exist today within the realm of training and certification. To learn more you may want to review the fall issue of Training Industry Quarterly. The world we live and work in drives the need for knowledge workers and an innovation economy.

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Digital Blackboard Standards Knowledge Worker 78

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

I have paraphrased a few points from the book (pages 69-71): Rob Cross is the founder and research director of the Network Roundtable, a consortium of 40 learning organizations working with UVA faculty to apply network techniques to critical business issues.

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Network Analysis Collaboration Social Networks 128

CLO Magazine

JULY 18, 2016

Second, both men and women who worked in dirty environments — exposed to things like mold, lead and loud noises — experienced memory issues and cognitive decline. You’re well aware of the value and importance of continuous learning to individuals and to the business. So keep the learning and development coming.

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Cognitive Journal Knowledge Worker CLO 32

Disprz

JUNE 4, 2021

Renowned names of the industry like Amazon, Starbucks, Coca-Cola have used analytics to derive critical behavioral insights to enhance business operations and improve customer satisfaction. Learning programs are often implemented by a company to help employees produce certain business outputs. But is that sufficient?

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Analytics Skills ROI Metrics 40

CLO Magazine

MAY 29, 2017

In today’s increasingly knowledge-driven, cost-competitive work world, many organizations need their managers to continue to develop and apply their advanced technical knowledge — not only to properly direct the work and manage the people who report to them, but to help their team solve complex problems.

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Culture Create Leadership Coaching 70

Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. He distills lessons from cognitive science, social networking, business strategy, futures research, and psychology to boost sales, improve customer service, and spark innovation.

Blended Learning 167

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 167

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

But the reality was more than that as I explored in posts like Business of Learning and Models for Learning Questions. This has a dramatic impact on the Business of Learning and perceptions around value and cost. 2009 is going to be a big year for this issue. 2009 is going to be a big year for this issue. Grade: ???? #9

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Predictions Virtual Classroom Wiki eLearning 2.0 183

Mindflash

APRIL 4, 2016

Time management is more than project planning goals and structuring the day with To Do Lists — it is also about our attention spans, engagement, individual competencies, and locus of focus. Being our most productive and effective in this information-rich, ever-changing workplace isn’t instinctual.

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Alternatives Management Multitasking Training 40

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2018

analysis, at least 80 percent of companies acknowledge a critical need to redesign their traditional structure to create a network of experts for better, faster business decisions. Focus on building dynamic team effectiveness versus building individual knowledge and skills. According to a 2014 McKinsey and Co.

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Network Expert Content IBM 81

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2010

I expected it to be about how to use twitter as a knowledge worker. But I had to share the comment: When I train on SharePoint, the biggest issues is that people don't understand what's possible. Virtual Worlds Great comment: Your number #1 point was how busy everyone is, who has time for virtual worlds???

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Predictions Mashups Google Wave SharePoint 105

Instancy

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The transition from traditional or physical classroom-based instruction to digital learning is good for the learners and the eLearning business. Social learning also distributes the ownership of responsibility to knowledge workers in a workplace setting. Artificial Intelligence.

Compliance Training 52

Compliance Training Trends Corporate eLearning Augmented Reality 52

Instancy

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The transition from traditional or physical classroom-based instruction to digital learning is good for the learners and the eLearning business. Social learning also distributes the ownership of responsibility to knowledge workers in a workplace setting. Artificial Intelligence.

Compliance Training 52

Compliance Training Trends Corporate eLearning Augmented Reality 52

Ed App

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Their presence in such a busy work environment requires detailed risk management and hazard communication (HAZCOM) protocols. Workers must know the procedures for handling these hazardous materials, including emergency plans in the event that something goes wrong. .

Blended Learning 40

Blended Learning Training Train Emergent 40

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

A great diagram is in Information Overload Paradox : The post talks about the issue of overload: I can certainly consume more content than I could two decades ago, but no matter how much content is available, I can’t consume much more. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 The goal is achieving the outcomes you seek.

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Predictions Diversity Training Compliance Training Authoring Tools 198

Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix. He distills lessons from cognitive science, social networking, business strategy, futures research, and psychology to boost sales, improve customer service, and spark innovation.

Blended Learning 113

Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 113

Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

2) Do you think that learning needs to be designed to solve every business or job problem? 2) Do you think that learning needs to be designed to solve every business or job problem? But the question goes further than this it, as it asks if learning needs to be designed to solve EVERY business or job problem.

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Quiz Blended Learning Social Media Performance Support 198

Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2015

American business people attend 11,000,000 business meetings every day and half of it’s a waste of time. Knowledge workers spend three hours a day in meetings. You prepare in advance at your own pace with resources framing the business issue. Senior executives spend more. Four in ten have fallen asleep.

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Knowledge Worker Examples Sample Problem 36

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 25, 2010

David Gurteen has written his “Knowledge Letter&# every month for the last ten years. 120 issues! I’ve followed David’s adventures in Knowledge Management for years. David has been a major influence on my views of knowledge management. Here’s proof. Take a look.

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KM Knowledge Newsletter Knowledge Worker 40

Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

Her writings and articles have been published in papers like The Business Standard, Inside Learning Technologies Magazine, U.K., Each organization I have worked with or shared my perspective with are at different points in their journey of becoming a social business – where learning and working are one integrated whole. and others.

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Social Networks Diversity Training Community Social Network 188

eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 5, 2010

Technology has revolutionized business; now it must revolutionize learning. The mission of corporate eLearning is to supply the workforce with an up-to-date and cost-effective program that yields motivated, skilled, and loyal knowledge workers. I came across this article and thought it listed some nice advantages of eLearning.

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Corporate eLearning eLearning Consultant eLearning Simulations 131

mLearning Trends

OCTOBER 31, 2010

It has certainly been a "month of Sundays" since I last posted to this blog and I offer apologies for not sharing more throughout what has proved to be a very busy and productive summer and fall season. Common learning experiences include learning a new skill, refreshing a recent training or reclaiming forgotten knowledge.

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Social Networks Social Network Knowledge Worker ADL 73

Matrix

MARCH 23, 2017

In a similar spirit, Ikujiro Nonaka, author of The Knowledge Creating Company , characterized knowledge-creating companies as places where “inventing new knowledge is not a specialized activity… it is a way of behaving, indeed, a way of being, in which everyone is a knowledge worker.”

Social Networks 41

Social Networks Performance Support Slideshare Web 41

eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 14, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. Learning Management Systems - Trends and Issues - Discovery Through eLearning , July 8, 2009. How to share a link to a specific timecode in YouTube video - Business Casual , July 9, 2009. Knowledge (45). Tools and our brain , July 10, 2009.

Mentoring 40

Mentoring Knowledge Skills Tips 40

Instancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

With a wide range of useful features, Google Glass has the potential to change the way we learn and train knowledge workers or students in academic settings. However, there are privacy issues associated with using it in classrooms. Your learning business is unique. Let's Get Started.

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Google Mobile Learning Mobile Augmented Reality 52

EI Design

JULY 30, 2018

Most companies still adhere to a traditional labor structure of employing full-time workers, hoping to find the best talent within driving distance of an office. But, as knowledge workers, we now have email, Slack, Dropbox or Google Drive, and Skype that have collapsed virtual separation. Final Thoughts. References: Blanding, M.

Specialist 40

Specialist Instructional Design Virtual World Project 40

Vignettes Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2015

There Is Strong Evidence of a Convergence of Forces Velocity of business is rapid - Organizations need to train people quickly to push products, support customers, comply with laws and others. This has a huge impact on the way we design, deliver and make content available to workers. Why is this important?

Ideas 40

Ideas Micro-Learning eLearning Strategy xapi 40

Tony Karrer

MAY 11, 2009

In his post, he really is looking primarily at the University of Manitoba's Connectivism Course that he designed and delivered with George Siemens to 2200 students in Fall 2008 and you can tell that he's busy thinking about the technology behind the Fall 2009 course.

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Informal Learning Informal Learning Technologies PLE 100

Learnnovators

JUNE 13, 2015

“ We have failed for over 7000 years to find the answer to the issue of how to educate everybody. As a consequence, the role of learning professionals has morphed from being mere providers of instructional support to facilitators who help workers manage their own learning. ” ― John Dewey. ” ― Sugata Mitra.

Blended Learning 173

Blended Learning Performance Support Education Blended 173

Big Dog, Little Dog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

The business issues of engagement, setting goals and alignment are still big gaping holes in most companies." It also affords users the opportunity to interact with content while their hands and eyes are busy (i.e. How can you imagine yourself as a highly-paid knowledge worker and not know how to do these things.

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Case Study Audio Study Web 32

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 27, 2008

They live in the fast lane, skittering across the top of important issues without ever getting to the heart of the matter. Throughout the CLO Symposium, people grappled with ways to explain the value of learning to business leaders. In a knowledge society, work and learning are the same thing. That’s no longer the case.

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Sun Torrent CLO Corporate eLearning 36

Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

to organisations is not exclusively a learning issue - it permeates all aspects of the way in which people network and collaborate. concept must be appropriate to the organisation, and this is open to question when you're looking beyond knowledge workers. If not, someone else from another business function will step in.

Big Question 40

Big Question Social Networks Wiki Social Network 40

eLearning Learning Posts

APRIL 6, 2010

Social Media for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , March 30, 2010 Lot s of information on different social media tools that knowledge workers should know about. Social Media for Knowledge Workers , March 30, 2010. I also hope to share specifics about the logistics of the courses. Social Media (55).

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Instructional Design Diversity Training Authoring Tools ADDIE 40