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Bridging The Widening Skill Gaps Of Knowledge Workers

Disprz

Knowledge workers are an intangible asset of a business; however, without the right skill set, they fail to capitalize on lucrative opportunities. Most knowledge workers lack the necessary skills to address the changing market and customer demands. 87% of companies say they have skill gaps or expect to within a few years.

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Peter Thiel, College and The Modern Knowledge Worker

OpenSesame

While Thiel’s fellowship is a good approach for potential tech entrepreneurs, it’s a narrow solution for a broader problem: A college education has become a prerequisite for a job in the modern economy, but a college education is not the best preparation for the a job in the modern economy. Image Credit: fireboat895 on Flickr.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 27, 2021

Mike Taylor

But Zoom calls all day are not going to create work environments where knowledge workers can deal with complex problems or create innovative solutions. The key to distributed work is social learning.”. Jeremy Caplan’s latest Wonder Tools newsletter includes a summary of his recommended tools for teaching.

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VUCA, or how to do business in interesting times

Matrix

Many knowledge workers now perform their jobs remotely, while governments and individual business organizations look for ways to keep the world going. Finding the right solution to address the problems one faces on a daily basis is quite a challenge. Let’s look back at the last couple of months. But they are not. Complexity.

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

Vitalyst

In a 1999 California Management Review article, Peter Drucker—who is widely regarded as the “father of modern management”—stated that the most important contribution management will need to make in the 21st century will be increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. They have to manage themselves. They must have autonomy.

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From Learning Management to Personal Knowledge Management

Jane Hart

And it’s unlikely you’ll be encouraged to spend your workday focusing on forward-looking, innovative projects that will really help you grow. Sharing knowledge (and experiences) – within a trusted network of colleagues (aka a PLN (Personal Learning Network) or PKN (Personal Knowledge Network).

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How to inspire seamless VR adoption among older employees

STRIVR

As practically every company adopts new digital ways of doing all kinds of things, workers from pre-digital generations sometimes struggle to adapt. The cynical point of view is that Baby Boomers and older Gen X workers will get phased out of the workforce, thereby solving this problem. But that’s not what’s happening.