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Knowledge Work Types

Tony Karrer

To help clarify this and to begin thinking through implications for Work Literacy Skills , I went back through a couple of different sources. Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers using a variety of classifications.

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Study: Enhanced Employee Development Needed in 2013

CLO Magazine

Employees must work differently to survive where frequent organizational change, knowledge work and increased collaboration are the norm. • Reorient Managers to Guide and Empower Knowledge Workers : Focus managers on removing complications that arise in a less routine, more ambiguous work environment.

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Using SharePoint

Tony Karrer

The reality is that what we did on the Work Literacy course or what I did for my Collaborative Learning Course could easily be supported by the various types of web parts within SharePoint. But in discussions there were often distinctions based on what the work team or CoP expected. Some used it to track bugs.

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have occurred and are constantly occurring. A big part of education is learning how to do research and really that's where you learn the foundations of knowledge work. Finding content was the biggest challenge.

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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

Most companies still adhere to a traditional labor structure of employing full-time workers, hoping to find the best talent within driving distance of an office. It makes sense to insist that employees all work next to each other on a factory assembly line. This new paradigm is optimized for knowledge work, like L&D.

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Effectively Managing Your Time and Energy – AXIOM Insights Podcast

AXIOM Learning Solutions

In the past several years, knowledge workers have embraced technical skills and the realities of blended and remote work. So I think there’s a convergence of three themes that really caused a lot of stress for people this concept of digitization and remote work, being constantly available or accessible.

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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. Charles: We now know that people learn more about their work informally than they do formally. It requires a lot more than that.