Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2009

It’s got to be about culture, and learning together skills, and facilitating productive information interchange and productive interactions. It’s got to include performance support, and informal learning. This should not be threatening or anxiety-inducing! Training used to be important, as skilled workers were critical.

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Acorn Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When you have the right people with the right skills and knowledge working on a project, the project is more likely to succeed, with increased productivity, positive team dynamics and decreased attrition rates leading to happy clients and customers and greater returns for your business.

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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. What sometimes goes wrong or seems harder than it should be?

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Acorn Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When you have the right people with the right skills and knowledge working on a project, the project is more likely to succeed, with increased productivity, positive team dynamics and decreased attrition rates leading to happy clients and customers and greater returns for your business.

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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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Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2010

The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. We like to think knowledge workers spend all day "problem-solving" but in reality they spend all day finding out what procedure should be followed in what situation.

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

During the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, efficient production of goods was the name of the game. In the 20th century, information became as important as materials, leading to what my friend and mentor Peter Drucker called knowledge work.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Here’s the series: Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality , Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech , Using Text-to-Speech in an eLearning Course , Text-to-Speech eLearning Tools - Integrated Products , Text-to-Speech vs Human Narration for eLearning , and Using Punctuation and Mark-Up Language to Increase Text-to-Speech Quality.

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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. Drucker We are truly in a time of incredible innovation of work skills. We are struggling to keep up.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 11, 2017

However, research has documented instead that innovation is the product of an environment where ideas can gestate and interact. In short, innovation is about creating an environment where people can be exposed to different concepts, interact productively, experiment safely and be allowed time to reflect.

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Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2017

The future of work will heavily feature knowledge working, where people will be working on the move, using technology to connect, communicate and create. Work will polarise between high and low skills level employment. They are the nodes of their own production and they value peer feedback.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 6, 2009

I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. In most cases, I will ask for a show of hands: How many of you have a LinkedIn Account? Generally 50-70%. How many of you actively use LinkedIn? Generally down to 10%.

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Matrix

MAY 9, 2019

To some extent, work doesn’t happen at work anymore. All sorts of noises and irrelevant conversations come in the detriment of focus and productivity. And people need their focus in knowledge acquiring activities. Knowledge transfer is never an effortless process that happens spontaneously within an organization.

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TechSmith Camtasia

OCTOBER 14, 2013

I’m also interested in new ways of creating and sharing knowledge. Working with multiple media, especially video, enables authors to use communication strategies that extend the familiar approaches we find in print. An Interview with Dan: How did video production in your English class become a topic of interest?

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 25, 2009

One of the favorite quotes I used to use during presentations was Drucker - The most important contribution of management in the 21st century will be to increase knowledge-worker productivity. This is a big reason that I started Work Literacy. If anything this tool has detracted from productivity, not increased it.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 5, 2009

Productivity This series is going to be way too long as it is, so I have to draw the line somewhere. I'm not going to cover a core literacy for concept workers that is what I think of as productivity. For example, I doubt we are using an authoring tool for personal learning. Getting Things Done is the classic example of this.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2012

And for many of us, the situations in which you’re likely to most use a mobile device - particularly on trains, on planes and generally when you’re waiting around - are much better suited to a productive learning experience than when you’re at your desk and very much in lean-forward mode. And that’s a very big deal indeed.

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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. Putting it all together.

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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. As employees approach the big moment—a product launch, a presentation, a new project, a promotion—they use microlearning to prepare.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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. We will share concrete examples of improving customer focus, modernizing the learning function, and improving knowledge productivity.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2013

Education premised on this philosophy has been commonly referred to as the ''factory model'' because of its parallels to industrialised working, which included batchprocessing, rationalisation of resources, synchronised behaviour and homogenisation of product. It is more comfortable to stay the same, than it is to change.

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Everwise

DECEMBER 7, 2016

This isn’t news to Antoinette Forth, who co-founded Walkabout Collaborative , an organization that provides knowledge, support, and technology to help executives and other experienced professionals leave traditional, full-time roles behind and launch entirely new kinds of careers for themselves. And have you experienced it ever?

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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.

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Learnnovators

OCTOBER 8, 2015

I’m largely talking design here, and I’m fine with storyboards before production, but you should have at least your designer and developer collaborating at various checkpoints throughout the design and development process, and similarly designer and SME having several touchpoints. Having end user stakeholders (e.g.

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Xyleme

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Jane argues that the requirement for traditional training departments will shrink “as knowledge, work and learning become indistinguishable, [and] social learning (powered by social media tools) becomes an organizational imperative.”

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 16, 2009

But there was another significant trend in the answers… Learning and Work Converge In a world where Knowledge Work and Learning is Inseparable , finding ways to support and improve work is the same as finding ways to support and improve learning. There will always be some level of training/education required.

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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. As employees approach the big moment—a product launch, a presentation, a new project, a promotion—they use microlearning to prepare.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 3, 2008

Unfortunately, you can ask all you want, you will still be doing a lot of work with LMS products this year. Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG. All of this will cause of to continue to ask Do You WANT an LMS?

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Strategy (15) PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning (15) Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools (14) Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis (13) Test SCORM Courses with an LMS (13) 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0

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Big Dog, Little Dog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I also had a chat a few days ago with a Wall Street Journal reporter who is researching an article on knowledge worker productivity. I said yes, and mouthed the old Peter Drucker chestnut that "making knowledge work productive is the greatest economic challenge of this century." He asked, "Well, was Drucker wrong?"

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. Q : As a business owner, I have concern about employee abuse, i.e. loss of productivity.

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Spark Your Interest

MARCH 7, 2021

They diverted the money they were spending on the ongoing maintenance and hired an instructional designer with LMS knowledge. Working together they identified an LMS that met their needs, was easy to use, and only had a modest cost. But if the user experience sucks so will your end product. Go Beyond The Sales Features.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 4, 2009

LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers - eLearning Technology , July 6, 2009 How to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. The Future Business of Learning for Suppliers - Performance Learning Productivity , July 21, 2009. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

Furthermore, given the increasingly reciprocal nature of knowledge work, they will have to know how to teach. Replacing instructor-led events with living networks yields astounding gains in productivity. Management needs to support self-learning, not direct it. Each one-teach-one is at the heart of invent-as-you-go learning.

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The way organisations work today is almost unrecognisably different from the structured and closely-managed systems in pre-Internet and pre-ubiquitous connectivity times. They, themselves, expect immediacy and real-time responses. Innovation is their driver and change is accepted as the norm.

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AXIOM Learning Solutions

MARCH 23, 2023

We’re in our 21st year, very proud to have been working with Fortune 500 organizations as well as early stage companies to help them with their client acquisition efforts and mean more to the existing clients that they currently have. I said some of my most productive days are when I go over the recycle bin in our office.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

Productivity in a Networked era: Not Your Father’s ROI. At the same time, we are shifting into an era in which knowledge work and learning occur where re-engineered business processes collide with a participative and interactive ecology of information flows. The July issue of Chief Learning Officer is now available online.

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