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Work Skills Keeping Up?

Tony Karrer

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. More than 40 percent of the survey participants indicate an inability to handle future increases in information flow.

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

My recent Survey - Do You Know What These Are? really was all about new work skills - skills we should be learning. Actually, it's also about the fact that there's not really new work as much as there is new work skills. More on this below. I'm under 25 and have used both. Finding content was the biggest challenge.

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The 70:20:10 Model – Today, Tomorrow & Beyond

Learnnovators

Jobs are changing where there is a clear move from role-based work to task-based work, less transactional work and more work that requires decision-making and dealing with ambiguity. However, it is inevitable that they will need to adopt new ways of learning to support new ways of working sooner rather than later.

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THE 70:20:10 MODEL – TODAY, TOMORROW & BEYOND

Learnnovators

Jobs are changing where there is a clear move from role-based work to task-based work, less transactional work and more work that requires decision-making and dealing with ambiguity. However, it is inevitable that they will need to adopt new ways of learning to support new ways of working sooner rather than later.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. A great industrial worker might be half again as productive as his middle-of-the road peer. These people need the room to excel.

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2008 in retrospect

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Shareholders owned the factories, but workers own their minds. Information spreading through network connections empowers workers to make decisions and take responsibility for them. Give workers the resources and challenge them to do what’s required.