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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.

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Maximizing employee performance in telecommunications

Learning Pool

Telecommunications plays an essential role in interconnecting businesses and social lives. Data-centric businesses like telecoms will require cohorts of highly trained, specialized knowledge workers to take them forward. Personalized learning helps keep skills levels high and knowledge current.

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Social media and reflection: marriage or divorce?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Social media in organisations has been a difficult topic and sometimes bothers me. When I am invited to do introductory sessions in organisations, I feel like I'm converting people to use MORE social media, whereas I don't believe it is a matter of using as many social media as possible. Quick messages. Multitasking.

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CEO’s Journey with Watch and Learn

Webanywhere

Sean understood the power of video and how it could revolutionize the way his company communicated and learned. That’s why he built Watch and Learn, a social learning platform designed specifically for video. Sean recognized that traditional forms of communication and training were no longer sufficient.

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Future-proofing skills in the technology industry

Learning Pool

While automation and AI will produce many efficiencies – which include making some roles and people redundant – they will also, by transforming business activities, create the need for new roles and new categories of knowledge workers. These include communications, leadership , data analytics, and general problem-solving skills.

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Selling Social Media for Learning: ASTD Big Question

Kapp Notes

This month's ASTD Learning Circuit's Blog Big Question is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?" Here are several ways to help sell Social Media in an organization. If you try to sell the use of social media as a technology play, it will not work. Lessons Learned.

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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. Communication is a uniquely human skill because it requires an understanding and appreciation of language, context, and emotion.

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