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Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job - Management Consultant

Tony Karrer

Are there training departments? What will current members of training departments be doing in 10 years? Some people are suggesting getting rid of training departments and starting fresh. Others, including myself, don't believe training departments will go away any more than educational institutions will no longer exist.

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Work Literacy Skills - New Workshop

Tony Karrer

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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Trends in Learning

Tony Karrer

Training Method Trends suggests that social learning tools are beginning to take off. 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:

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Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals

Clark Quinn

Work Literacy and the eLearning Guild are partnering to provide you with a great (and free) opportunity to get up to speed on Web 2.0 Event Moderators Michele Martin is an independent consultant who specializes in using social media tools to support learning, and career and professional development.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

That led me to an article Harold and I had written on the demise of the training department. The Future of the Training Department. The latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. The latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. Clocks measure working hours instead of the sun.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Articles: Get Out of the Training Business. Next week, we will close the training department. We are shifting our focus from training to performance. I’m changing my title from VP of training to VP of core capabilities. The measure of our contributions will be results, not training measures. Informal Learning.

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the L&D profession

Performance Learning Productivity

The way organisations work today is almost unrecognisably different from the structured and closely-managed systems in pre-Internet and pre-ubiquitous connectivity times. PERFORMANCE CONSULTING Performance consulting capabilities are required to support all three areas. They, themselves, expect immediacy and real-time responses.