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The Top 3 ingredients for motivating employees in tough times

Matrix

Read more: The role of leaders in building trust within the organization. Employees feel motivated when they can see the results of their work and have the resources to grow both personally and professionally. Motivation science tells that trust can be built by showing trust first. Competence. Closing thoughts.

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. But not so great for building bonds and trust. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. Are you a knowledge worker working from home? I would love to learn from the challenges you’ve faced and overcome….

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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

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. Recommended L&D Team Structure That Leverages Gig Economy.

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Get Employee Onboarding Right

Everwise

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. Empower new employees with accountability.

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Getting Learners to Collaborate in a Virtual Learning Environment

ScholarLMS

Share experiences and knowledge. Work in groups. However, collaborative learning initiatives tend to yield results over time as learners get comfortable about working as a team. The frequency, duration, and type of interactions will, however, vary based on the learners’ needs and the course itself. Course Delivery.

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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

Researcher and analyst, Jon Husband, says that wirearchy is, “a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on information, knowledge, trust and credibility, enabled by interconnected people and technology”. This requires information, knowledge, trust and credibility.