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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

And this is contrary to much of the working world where interaction is kept to a necessary minimum, time is to be spent on work tasks and mistakes are punished. Jennifer Magnani, senior director of Sanofi Pasteur Quality Academy, faces a challenge in aligning these two elements. Thus, you’re learning. And you should.

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Importance of Questions in the Concept Age

ID Reflections

Thus, the importance of conversations cannot be over-emphasized in this age of high concept and high touch, where effective “knowledge work” consists of asking profound questions and hosting wide-ranging strategic conversations on issues of substance. Informal Learning 4. Suggested readings to understand today’s world… 1.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Any remaining training staff will become mentors, coaches and facilitators who work on improving core business processes, strengthening relationships with customers and cutting costs. My assistants will become the director of sales readiness and the director of competitive advantage, respectively. Informal Learning.

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The 70:20:10 Model – Today, Tomorrow & Beyond

Learnnovators

ABOUT CHARLES JENNINGS (Managing Director, Duntroon Associates): Charles Jennings is a leading thinker, practitioner and consultant in the areas of performance improvement, change management, and learning. Each of these is driving changes in the way we understand that learning needs to happen.

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THE 70:20:10 MODEL – TODAY, TOMORROW & BEYOND

Learnnovators

ABOUT CHARLES JENNINGS (Managing Director, Duntroon Associates): Charles Jennings is a leading thinker, practitioner and consultant in the areas of performance improvement, change management, and learning. Each of these is driving changes in the way we understand that learning needs to happen.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

If you are not fully fluent with terms like revenue, earnings, cost, cash flow, margin, and value, take a look at here and get a friend to explain the workings of the basic business model. An executive, a manager, a training director, and a worker each have different but valid ways of evaluating the effectiveness of learning.

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50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10

Jay Cross

Work and learning have merged. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. We learn on the job to do the job. In a time of increased business speed, learning is vital. To stay ahead and create more value, you have to learn faster, better, smarter.