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Once, twice, one thousand times a knowledge worker

From the Coleface

Jay Cross has an interesting article in the December issue of the “Inside Learning Technologies” magazine about making business decisions and the use of business metrics. I’m not sure people becoming 1000 more productive is feasible…maybe it’s just that Jay knows some very poorly performing knowledge workers

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The Skills Gap –  The Correlation Between Training & the Skills Gap – Part III

Jigsaw Interactive

According to a Training Magazine report, U.S. Says Shannon Heath, senior communications specialist, “Knowledge workers never want to be stagnant, so SAS provides opportunities for growth to keep our employees challenged, motivated, and engaged” ( Monster ). The same idea holds true for upskilling employees when things change.

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Does Your Organization Need a Learning Culture?

The Performance Improvement Blog

Likewise, today’s knowledge workers are asked to do more than just complete tasks. In January 2016 issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine , Kate Iverson quotes Dearborn: Justifying and inciting change in an engineering organization like SAP requires hard metrics. The approach of Jenny Dearborn at SAP is an example of this.

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Interactive Writer for Teen Audience

Tony Karrer

We’ve talked with writers who have incredible experience in publishing for teens (magazines, books) but they don’t get the instructional and interaction aspects. The style and voice of the course needs to balance being fresh and hip but not losing sight of the importance of the topic. It doesn’t always work, but generally is pretty good.

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List to Learn, Learn to List

Kapp Notes

I don't totally agree that work and learning are exactly the same, there is some overlap but there are specific things workers need to learn that do not result in a direct work product. It would be great for the worker to learn to write more efficient reports but learning to do so is not a work product.

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Harness human skills to build future-ready teams

CLO Magazine

For knowledge workers everywhere, the nature of work is shifting fast. Put another way, half of the skills knowledge workers have today will be useless in less than five years. One app in particular, the generative AI tool ChatGPT, was adopted practically overnight by professionals in a range of roles.

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The Advantages of eLearning

eLearning Brothers

The mission of corporate eLearning is to supply the workforce with an up-to-date and cost-effective program that yields motivated, skilled, and loyal knowledge workers. According to Training Magazine, corporations save between 50-70% when replacing instructor-led training with electronic content delivery.