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Facilitating Knowledge Work #wolweek

Clark Quinn

In the course of some work with a social business agency, was wondering how to represent the notion of facilitating continual innovation. This representation emerged from my cogitations, and while it’s not quite right, I thought I’d share it as part of Work Out Loud week. Here the role is very much facilitation.

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How companies can Improve their Talent Development and employee retention

Matrix

This provides them with practical and theoretical skillsets to help them become effective and innovative corporate contributors. It can also spark new interests that push innovation. But close guidance from business leaders can help to develop close bonds and more practical knowledge. Embrace diversity.

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

The success factor for businesses will be, increasingly, the ability to: continually innovate. In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. experiment.

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Learned vs. Learners

ID Reflections

In the future too, I see this blog being intermittently peppered with posts unrelated to organizational learning but delineating experiences that are of personal import. With today’s post, I am back on the theme of learning and its impact on performance—personal and organizational. I am talking about knowledge work here.

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Employee Empowerment—How It’s Done and Why You Should Care

Vitalyst

One of the ideas Drucker was talking about in that piece, and in his many previous published works, was empowerment as a management strategy. Treating knowledge workers as assets means giving them what they need to be productive and innovative—that is, providing them with autonomy, or empowering them. They must have autonomy.

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Generation next

Learning with e's

This might be seen as a generalisation, because there are some pockets of innovative pedagogy to be found in every large education institution. Yet innovative pedagogy in higher education is not prevalent, and academics are generally reluctant to change their methods. Work will polarise between high and low skills level employment.

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More Curious Learning

Learning Rebels

First we need to know our stuff, build our knowledge, work up a curiosity and not accept myths as truths – let’s take Learning Styles as an example; find research, find data, read the whitepapers, and draw your own conclusions. Those types of debates are good for the brain, it feeds the mind. Doctor heal thyself!