Clark Quinn

AUGUST 13, 2010

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. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work. conduct useful research.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. To let people know about my work, socialize it as much as possible. Are you a knowledge worker working from home? But not so great for building bonds and trust.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Session Hopping a Practical Guide General Session - New Work Literacies and E-Learning 2.0 These changes are continuously transforming the landscape for knowledge work. The results are in, and most knowledge workers are struggling to adapt to new forms of work and learning. Learning 2.0 Learning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2008

methods and tools for yourself and your organization. You will: Learn specific methods you can use to accelerate your own knowledge work and learning Define strategies for eLearning 2.0 for your organization Make a plan for getting an eLearning 2.0

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I’ve written before about the changes I see coming for organizations (e.g. No longer can a few do the thinking for everyone, as we see in a hierarchical organization. Instead, we need to make sure everyone understands what the overall goal is, and have them work together to achieve it. This doesn’t come for free.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 1, 2008

I'm very happy to announce that Michele Martin and I have just launched Work Literacy - a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. In fact, we all have blind spots.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts. But, I actually think we should be focused on the emphasis on the type of knowledge work and the type of workers. In other words.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 16, 2008

methods and tools for yourself and your organization. You will: Learn specific methods you can use to accelerate your own knowledge work and learning Define strategies for eLearning 2.0 for your organization Make a plan for getting an eLearning 2.0

Social Networks 158

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Tony Karrer

MAY 4, 2010

We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. See Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? This is going to first take the form of hundreds of thousands of different little applications that each provide performance support for particular tasks.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2009

I'm hoping you can help a reader with thoughts and likely help others of us … A medium size nonprofit and lobbying organization is working on a designing and creating a social / work network for experts, students, volunteers who are willing to help through campaigning, lobby, sharing knowledge, working on solutions (writing documents).

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In the 20th century, information became as important as materials, leading to what my friend and mentor Peter Drucker called knowledge work. People were no longer viewed as mere “hired hands,” and managers had to learn to encourage and inspire those who worked with them. It’s a lofty concept.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work. They may self-organize around roles, or tasks, or projects, or all of the above. Jay Cross talks about the learnscape , while I term it the performance ecosystem.

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Vitalyst

MARCH 8, 2018

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. Consider the current work environment for the average employee.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 7, 2009

It starts by looking at your key knowledge work: Roles Projects For myself, these might be: Roles Small Business Owner Manager Acting CTO Community organizer Expert / Speaker / Writer Client Advisor Family Vacation Planner Fine Dining Planner etc. Spring break plans etc. In other words: Scan - Staying up-to-speed on a topic.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 11, 2010

I’m still working on my yearly post that is my eLearning Predictions. The organizer will give preference to his local members, but will let other folks attend who contact him. s impact on knowledge work and workplace learning. That will be coming out shortly. He is a sought after presenter on Web 2.0’s

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 31, 2009

Trends in What L&D Organizations are Doing As a result of these trends, some L&D organizations are looking to social and informal learning. In Long Live , I discuss how we are not talking about eliminating instructor-led, but that organizations are looking at alternatives. This will be a slow evolution. vs. Learning 2.0,

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Matrix

MAY 9, 2019

And people need their focus in knowledge acquiring activities. That’s why training courses should always have a clear structure, with clear objectives, organized resources and summaries for each learning module. Knowledge transfer is never an effortless process that happens spontaneously within an organization.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 11, 2017

Organizations are facing increasing disruptions, more information is available, and new technologies are making it easier and faster to compete. John Kotter, the father of organizational change, in his book “Accelerate” is now calling for a dual operating system structure for organizations to successfully integrate execution and innovation.

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Everwise

JANUARY 25, 2018

The onboarding practices of the past – completing checklists of tasks, filling out forms, and even watching old grainy compliance tapes – may no longer cut it, particularly in industries like knowledge work, where talent (and therefore turnover) is very expensive. Create a balanced, effective onboarding program.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2008

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. How to keep track, organize, refind, remind of information?

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ATD Learning Technologies

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Faced with a future in which AI makes work even less stable, what is needed is a wholesale transition from knowledge work to learning work. Review HRIS moments , like when someone joins the organization or gets promoted to manager. Align Microlearning Around Moments of Need.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2010

With the unknown and the complex becoming the norm in knowledge work, adaptability is the key to dealing with challenges, to be comfortable with ambiguity, and to move to a state where we are constantly learning. Disciplined collaboration requires that organizations be decentralized and yet coordinated.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2008

SharePoint is so flexible and the documentation for it is so big and diverse, that a big part of my goals have been to understand the different ways that training organizations are using SharePoint. Possibly its smarter use of Outlook that's the intent from a Microsoft vision of supporting the knowledge worker.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 11, 2009

One of the common themes on my blog is the world we live in with availability of trillions of web pages, millions of people, and thousands of tools, has meant a significant and continuous change in our work literacy. It also has an impact on Learning Design and Learning Organizations … more on this below. Read the Whole Thing ?

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 12, 2015

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. What are the key strategic thrusts of your organization? Don’t know how?

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 23, 2009

Dodged that bullet. :) Patterns and Knowledge Work I understand the concern that when you share best practices, you may come out with very different results. This is something that certainly would be called sharing best practices in many organizations. We also allow them to use alternatives. eLearning Technology.

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EI Design

JULY 30, 2018

Gig economy is the buzzword referring to a work environment that supports short-term contracts, often with individuals working virtually together regardless of physical location. This new paradigm is optimized for knowledge work, like L&D. The Solution. Increased Innovation. Strong core team.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 8, 2009

Harold Jarche, Michele Martin and I are pleased to announce a new workshop offering that relates to the recent posts on Tool Set 2009 and to the issues of Work Literacy. Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader?

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 6, 2009

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. Our last formal learning used card catalogs, microfiche readers, Xerox machines, libraries, etc.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 27, 2010

A powerful question also has the capacity to “travel well”—to spread beyond the place where it began into larger networks of conversation throughout an organization or a community. Switch The most fascinating find in the white paper was the following bit of information: Are there organizations that do place a high value on questions?

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 10, 2009

And my personal experience is that it's pretty rare to run into an organization that is not at least planning on adopting some social software solutions. Once enough people in the organization adopted email, it was very hard for any individual to avoid adopting it. and eLearning 2.0 adoption Facilitating Adoption of Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Tapping the Social Grid Date: Friday, February 27th Time: 9 - 10 am PACIFIC, Noon - 1 pm EASTERN Register Here Over the past 20 years, knowledge work has been transformed by the explosion of information sources and information flow. This has caused fairly radical changes in core work tools and methods.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Tulser is an anagram of results , and that is what motivates both of our organizations. The discussion will include a case study of Thomson-Reuters, focusing on cutting-edge performance improvement, knowledge work, and the business case in senior management terms.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see? What will the mix of Push vs. Pull Learning; Formal vs. Informal supported by the organization?

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. The Coherent Organization. Replacing today’s haphazard approaches with systematic, enlightened management accelerates the development of future workers and gets the entireorganization working smarter. We learn to do the job on the job.

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Aptara

AUGUST 15, 2014

All of those things must be done, along with crafting compelling content that ensures the act of taking the course won't bore employees, drive them away or fail to impart much knowledge. When the curriculum tends toward "soft skills" instead of hard-and-fast business knowledge, what can users do to keep their processes on-target?

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