Acorn Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But when you couple it with other tools , analyses and planning activities , your inventory becomes invaluable for effective decision-making for your business strategy, especially when your skills database is consistently updated over time. In a vacuum, a skills inventory is just that: A catalogue of skills present in your organisation.

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Skills Benefits Strategy Mobile 52

ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Ever since I started working primarily from home, I realized (even more so than before) the importance of online communities—within my organization and without.

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Stock Skype Knowledge Worker Community 124

Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2017

Nearly two decades into the third millennium, we need to question the effectiveness of this process, and ask whether a degree from a university still equips people for higher level work. Work will polarise between high and low skills level employment. Some professions have a better track record than others.

Pedagogy 77

Pedagogy Lecture License Creative Commons 77

ScholarLMS

OCTOBER 10, 2020

With support and guidance being readily available during class hours, the learning process gets easier and enjoyable, hence more effective. Effective collaborations are possible when backed by efficient course design, delivery, and the use of suitable tools and technology. Share experiences and knowledge. Work in groups.

Virtual Learning Environment 52

Virtual Learning Environment Learning Environment Collaboration Environment 52

Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Effective managers make stretch. Experience is the teacher, and managers shape their teammembers’ experiences. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. These posts offer guidance to managers who want to make learning from experience and conversation more effective.

Social Networks 83

Social Networks Social Network Communities of Practice Lesson 83

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Tilde Effect What epitomizes the situation for me is the Google ~ operator. Our work skills cannot sit still.

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Work Skills Skills Information Overload Search 102

Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2010

We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. See Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? This is going to first take the form of hundreds of thousands of different little applications that each provide performance support for particular tasks.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 27, 2010

How often have you heard a manager say: “Don't come to me with a problem ( most managers hate to use the word problem thinking that existence of a problem is a slur on their management skills instead of embracing each problem as an opportunity to probe and explore and make better ); come with the solution as well.”

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Conversation SAP Innovation Collaboration 123

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. This sounds a lot like a personal learning environment, personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal work and learning environment (PWLE) and PIM. The same tool and method can be highly effective for one person and not effective for others.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Harold Jarche, Michele Martin and I are pleased to announce a new workshop offering that relates to the recent posts on Tool Set 2009 and to the issues of Work Literacy. Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader?

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Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2009

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. And I consider knowing how to effectively use LinkedIn to be a core Work Literacy. In most cases, I will ask for a show of hands: How many of you have a LinkedIn Account? Generally 50-70%.

Social Networks 120

Social Networks LinkedIn Knowledge Worker Guide 120

ATD Learning Technologies

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

And whatever it takes to keep yourself competitive, it is considerably harder to keep track of and manage the skill half-lives of your teammates or employees. Faced with a future in which AI makes work even less stable, what is needed is a wholesale transition from knowledge work to learning work.

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microlearning Grovo Micro-Learning Simulations 95

Everwise

JANUARY 25, 2018

And not having a longer-term, structured onboarding program puts the onus on managers without equipping them to get their new team members up to speed. Create a balanced, effective onboarding program. The most effective onboarding programs incorporate three key success factors to engage and empower new hires from the start.

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Atlassian Compliance Training Mentoring Trust 40

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledge work. How to work with mobile devices and keep them in sync?

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Work Skills Skills Wiki Google Docs 100

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2017

Because of these realities, HR and talent managers will have to look more to their home markets for talent. The disruption higher education is experiencing will have a cascading effect that corporate learning will have to adjust to. Learning and development departments will be staffed with educational and learning design experts.

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Metrics Augmented Reality Develop Diversity Training 32

Tony Karrer

AUGUST 31, 2009

Informal Learning and Learning Management Systems Informal Learning - Let's Get Real - Part II Informal Learning - Harold Tells Us Where To Put It - Now What Informal Learning - Let's Get Real Elves, Measuring Results and Informal Learning eLearning 2.0:

Trends 121

Trends Blended Learning Social Networks eLearning 2.0 121

Tony Karrer

MARCH 23, 2009

Dodged that bullet. :) Patterns and Knowledge Work I understand the concern that when you share best practices, you may come out with very different results. Consequences: A description of the results, side effects, and trade offs caused by using the pattern. customer satisfaction data) and provide knowledge workers (e.g.,

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ID Reflections

MAY 30, 2013

This is far removed from my earlier world of corporate workplace learning and community management but that is the subject of another post. In your role as group leader, what is the most critical aspect of your work," I asked, expecting him to say planning, prioritizing tasks, allocation and so on. Learning is work.

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Leadership Skills Job Predictions 139

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Knowledge Work Framework Tilde Effect Concept Worker Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning Tool Set 2009 Search Better Memory Network Learning Information Radar Remote Collaboration Common eLearning 2.0

Social Networks 102

Social Networks ASTD Wiki eLearning 2.0 102

CLO Magazine

MAY 11, 2017

“People think of quality as a constraint that creates an environment where innovation is not possible,” and yet “there’s a continuing demand for more products that are more cost effective,” she said. People should share, and best ideas come from passion and working collectively.” Another factor is ongoing facilitation.

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Innovation Roles Cognitive Leadership 87

Learnnovators

OCTOBER 8, 2015

And helping SMEs focus on decisions and skills, not knowledge, working with them in a partnership rather than them as a fount of knowledge is helpful. This shouldn’t be (just) how much they like it (though that is not a bad thing to evaluate), but how effective the outcome is. Having end user stakeholders (e.g.

Design 133

Design eLearning Strategy eLearning Cognitive 133

bozarthzone

JANUARY 20, 2009

I've been doing a good deal of research/work lately with knowledge management. One of my concerns is that the focus so often seems to be only on output: where can we store knowledge? Here is a piece out of Millikin University on the information skills needed by those entering knowledge work roles.

Informal 40

Informal Skills Security Knowledge Management 40

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Effectiveness – Jay Cross. Until the shift from industrial to network dominance, corporations could compensate for crummy learning by hiring experienced people and managing ingenious command-and-control structures. In a networked corporation, there is scant difference between knowledge work and learning.

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Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Informal Cognitive 75

Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

Factories require groups of people working together. Managers showed workers how to do things and made sure they were doing them the right way. Frederick Taylor uses time-and-motion studies to find the one best way to do individual pieces of work. Mayo discovered the Hawthorne Effect, opening the study of motivation.

Authoring Tools 46

Authoring Tools CD-ROM Compliance Training DDI 46

ATD Learning Technologies

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

And whatever it takes to keep yourself competitive, it is considerably harder to keep track of and manage the skill half-lives of your teammates or employees. Faced with a future in which AI makes work even less stable, what is needed is a wholesale transition from knowledge work to learning work.

microlearning 40

microlearning Grovo Micro-Learning Simulations 40

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

To be effective today they need to be constantly probing and trying out better ways of work. Management’s job is to assist this dynamic flow of sense-making and to respond to workers’ needs, within a trusted network of information and knowledge sharing. Management needs to support self-learning, not direct it.

Training 40

Training Train Instructional Design Pattern 40

Jay Cross

JUNE 5, 2009

My unbook, Working Smarter: Boosting Brainpower for Fun & Profit , is now on sale at Amazon for $14. This is a book for business managers about applying common sense to the task of building workforces that improve performance naturally, without prodding.

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Brain Upgrade Innovation Internet 36

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 3, 2008

Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. Prediction #7 => LMS => More of What You Don't Want Large players will continue to move towards functionality in Talent Management - likely mostly features that you really don't care that much about. This will increase adoption of Web 2.0

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

ADDIE (analyze, design, develop, implement & evaluate) made it possible to manage the process of creating useful training programs systematically. It’s hard to argue with the concept of planning your work, then working your plan.) Old-style training enraged many managers because it was separate from work.

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Instructional Design Agile Instructional Instruction 46

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Strategy (15) PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning (15) Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools (14) Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis (13) Test SCORM Courses with an LMS (13) 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

CoachingOurselves 2hr Workshop for Individual Managers. LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. Personal in Personal Knowledge Management - eLearning Technology , July 22, 2009. Featured Sources.

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Social Media Media Social Skills 40

Spark Your Interest

MARCH 7, 2021

There are over 800 different LMS (Learning Management Systems) currently available. An LMS ( learning management system ) is software for the administration, tracking, reporting, and delivery of courses and training programs. These need IT management and support. It turns out, Learning Management Systems are a little like cars.

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LMS Authoring Tools Compliance Training Instructional Design 262

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." He asked me if the subject is important.

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Wiki Knowledge News Journal 32

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

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. He also knows ‘what works’ in the world of strategic talent. Could you please elaborate on this?

Performance Support 113

Performance Support Compliance Training Social Learning Ratio 113

Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

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. He also knows ‘what works’ in the world of strategic talent. Could you please elaborate on this?

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Performance Support Compliance Training eLearning Consultant 100

Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Briefly, the CLC survey found the following: L&D IS SEEN AS IMPORTANT BY MOST MANAGERS Employee development (and learning) is seen as important by most line managers. Equally, their managers reported that they, too, were happy with individual learning events or interventions (79% were either satisfied or very satisfied).

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Social Media Attitudes Performance Support eLearning Consultant 221

Tony Karrer

MARCH 25, 2009

One of the favorite quotes I used to use during presentations was Drucker - The most important contribution of management in the 21st century will be to increase knowledge-worker productivity. This is a big reason that I started Work Literacy. It also causes us to confuse activity and effectiveness.

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