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A new model for training

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

To be effective today they need to be constantly probing and trying out better ways of work. Management’s job is to assist this dynamic flow of sense-making and to respond to workers’ needs, within a trusted network of information and knowledge sharing. Management needs to support self-learning, not direct it.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

SENSE: Listen; Enable conversations; Look for patterns; Learn together. RESPOND: Support the work; Connect people; Share experiences; Develop tools. So what models will work for our complex environments? This requires information, knowledge, trust and credibility. Inverting the Pyramid.

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Working Smarter eFieldbook $12

Jay Cross

Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable. The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. Trust 276.