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

Performance Learning Productivity

The expectation now is that many workers, particularly the expanding number carrying out knowledge work, as well as people managers and executives in all enterprises, are always-on and hyper-connected. Innovation is their driver and change is accepted as the norm. They, themselves, expect immediacy and real-time responses.

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Learning for the 21st Century

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Unprecedented changes in the role of the worker, the nature of business, the pace of innovation, the importance of intangibles, the explosion of information, and the shift from a manufacturing to a service economy have rendered traditional corporate learning obsolete. Innovation was not a worker’s responsibility.