Allison Rossett

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It began with a few years as a high school English teacher, then several decades as professor of instructional design and technology at SDSU, all the while occupied with consulting engagements about adoption of technology, sales training and leader development. Take knowledge workers like doctors and Army captains.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. A study by EY Consulting found that practicing empathy in the workplace increases efficiency, creativity, satisfaction, innovation — and revenue.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

When I joined a consulting firm straight out of business school, we had a week-long orientation for new employees. The time for this imprinting in knowledge workers might be anywhere from 30 to 90 days. It was a great onboarding experience – a big production. After this, the “outsider” becomes an “insider.”

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 20, 2012

Chris Jablonski, in a ZDNet post titled, 5 trends driving the future of work , describes five major ways in which work is changing: More independent workers (one estimate is 20 million by 2013) – These are the independent consultants, contract workers, free lancers, free agents, and temps who cycle in and out of organizations in a constant flow.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 14, 2009

I just saw When Knowledge Management Hurts … Professors Martine Haas from the Wharton School and Morten Hansen from INSEAD , for example, examined the use of internal knowledge systems by teams of consultants in one of the big four accountancy firms trying to win sales bids.

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Limestone Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Perfect for learning and development (L&D) knowledge workers and educators, there’ll be discussions about the keys to transforming the challenges of digital workspaces into opportunities for growth and well-being.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

And analysis also shows that most knowledge workers are likely to turn to their neighbor to discuss a problem than consult a database.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The 9:00 am to 5:00 pm notion of work is all but vanishing, at least for the knowledge workers. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger. Work has become location agnostic; workplace is no longer defined by a brick and mortar building.

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Mike Taylor

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Yasmin Fodil (@yasminfodil) talks about the sources of collective knowledge available to knowledge workers, and the ways that they can access that knowledge. Performance Consulting with Nigel Harrison on the Learning & Development podcast. How Do Rocket Scientists Learn? Tools & Resources.

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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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SweetRush

JUNE 26, 2023

The article goes on to say, “ Millennials (78%) and Gen Z (76%) are most drawn to freelancing —not surprising, given that over one-third of people in both generations currently freelance —but a majority of Gen X (69%) and Boomers (51%) are drawn to independent work as well.”

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

According to Chris Tratar, senior director of product marketing at Saba, early adopters tend to have heavy focuses on knowledge worker industries, which include consulting, tech companies and any organization with a robust research and design process. This is not uncommon.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Loss of tacit knowledge Attrition, retirement, siloed pockets – all lead to the loss of tacit knowledge so critical to organization success 5. Loss of talent Smart knowledge workers leave for orgs where scope for learning and mastery are higher 6.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2018

Laci Loew is a human capital analyst and consultant and executive vice president of marketing at Pandexio, a software platform developed to curate insights. Bob Danna is executive chairman at Pandexio and former managing director at Deloitte Consulting LLP.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

“ Oh, and “performance consulting” is not another fancy new term for a TNA (Training Needs Analysis) either – since the solution is not necessarily training – in fact it’s probably the last thing that should be considered. There is no such thing as a training problem.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

My intent here is to possibly expand the options for the average knowledge worker to be able to search a bit better than they do today. That said, it's worth consulting resources such as: Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need - A wonderful list of different types of searches and tools that go along with that type of search.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

implies some pretty significant changes in the way that organizations look at the role of a knowledge worker, management, the learning/training organization, boundaries of organizations, when you reach across boundaries, etc. But, it's quite a bit different than the top-down kinds of approaches I've used in the past.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

ABOUT SAHANA CHATTOPADHYAY (Social Learning & Collaboration Strategist, Performance Consultant Exploring Emergent Learning, Blogger). Sahana Chattopadhyay is a performance consultant and an L&D professional with 15 years of experience in the field of academia and organizational learning.

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Learnnovators

JULY 20, 2015

Moreover, their access to today’s technology means that they think they don’t need an external PR consultant to help them. They can manipulate their accounts to show that in-house PR costs very little when compared with employing an external PR consultant. This is an especially attractive option when economic times are hard.

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 5, 2010

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. The need to transform how organizations learn points to a more modern, efficient, and flexible alternative: eLearning. Anywhere, anytime, anyone.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 24, 2011

In this clip , Woodward (Robert Redford) consults with a Washington Post archivist to find information about one of the targets of the investigation. The modern, information-empowered worker skips step one and goes straight to the processing, application and analysis of information. The Role for Knowledge Workers.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

APRIL 27, 2010

Robbins & Associates—the management consultancy founded by Dr. Steve Robbins that trains multinational organizations (NASA, Boeing, PepsiCo, etc.) How the Brain Works in the 21st Century As some of you already know, many organizations are idea-driven in the 21st-century knowledge economy. Hence, the Energy Star sticker.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Except to stop paying attention to consultants who tout old-school accounting as relevant in today’s world.) Millions of knowledge workers and their managers have been told they are responsible for their own learning but have no more idea what to do than the dog who got on the bus (Now WTF do I do?). Just imagine.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. he showed, do people expect to be paid for their consulting time?

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2013

” Teaching Virtue Tad Waddington, author of Lasting Contribution and CEO of a consulting company of the same name, supports the idea that leaders strongly influence the ethical culture of organizations, but is cautious about how virtue can be taught. In that context, leaders have to be the means for turning virtue into value.

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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.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2009

He consults his handy job aid to program the GPS functionality in his smart phone (his…ahem… Blackberry…c’mon, no iTouch here…he’s a bear) to locate the best berry patch. In reality, this post is not as much about bears or about knowledge workers in their work context as it is about those of us in the training organization.

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Ninja Tropic

APRIL 11, 2023

Microlearning Courses Use a Variety of Media Microlearning isn’t just a learning strategy, it’s a way of life for a lot of knowledge workers, businesses, and organizations. This level of autonomy is precisely what makes this learning technique so successful in today’s busy society. Are you prepared for that?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

concept must be appropriate to the organisation, and this is open to question when you're looking beyond knowledge workers. Employees are tired of consultants, HR people and the like advocating all sorts of changes that they haven't applied in their own work and haven't been able to make work. First of all, the web 2.0

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Except to stop paying attention to consultants who tout old-school accounting as relevant in today’s world.). Millions of knowledge workers and their managers have been told they are responsible for their own learning but have no more idea what to do than the dog who got on the bus (Now WTF do I do?). Just imagine.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 13, 2015

One of the principles of the future employee will be the shift from being a “knowledge worker” to being a “learning worker”. ” – Jacob Morgan. We remain continuously inspired by thoughts from today’s learning leaders on the evolving nature of learning and performance development in the workplace.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 1) - Gram Consulting , June 15, 2009. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009. Gram Consulting , September 9, 2009. Top 100 eLearning Items - eLearning Technology , April 7, 2009. ADDIE is dead! Long live ADDIE!

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Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I also had a chat a few days ago with a Wall Street Journal reporter who is researching an article on knowledge worker productivity. I said yes, and mouthed the old Peter Drucker chestnut that "making knowledge work productive is the greatest economic challenge of this century." Was Drucker Wrong? - Tom Davenport. Coming U.S.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 22, 2008

In addition, tasks that are normally associated with "knowledge workers" often have no clearly observable actions and can often be accomplished in multiple ways, thus a definable performance must be built. Interview Analysis: Consulting with a SME to determine the required steps and standards of performance.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

As of this month, it's now ten years since I left Epic and became a freelance consultant. There's been a greater recognition of the fact that knowledge workers don't actually need to know everything, they just need to know someone (or some thing) that does.

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learnWorlds

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

monetize your knowledge: Types of Knowledge Commerce. Consulting. Who can participate in the knowledge economy? To be a knowledge entrepreneur, you need to have a higher level of knowledge in a topic than your audience. Consultants. How Can I Sell My Skills Online and Monetize My Knowledge?

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2017

Barger’s interesting, and even somewhat controversial, stance about the company’s customer service crewmembers involves viewing these employees not as service agents, but as knowledge workers. It makes sense.

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