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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 ). If you made the right hires, you can teach the right skills.

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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. Even now, LinkedIn’s “2023 Workplace Learning” report states emphatically that “human skills remain critically important.”

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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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Move over, blue- and white-collar jobs: The workforce color spectrum is expanding

CLO Magazine

In 2015, a report from Burning Glass and General Assembly called attention to the rise of a new type of occupation. Back when that report came out, so-called hybrid jobs were largely a white-collar phenomenon. Burning Glass called those positions “hybrid jobs.”

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The Advantages of eLearning

eLearning Brothers

Even if employees had the time to attend all the courses and seminars and to read all the books and reports they should to remain up-to-date in their area of work, the cost of such learning would be prohibitive. Peoples, Presentations Plus, 1992; Training Magazine, 1998. Anywhere, anytime, anyone.

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When it Comes to the Workday, How Short is too Short?

Everwise

In the past few decades, research has uncovered a lot about worker productivity and the factors that increase or decrease it. Simultaneously, technology has made it possible for knowledge workers to do their jobs from almost anywhere, including those at large enterprise companies whose operations span the globe.

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Curation: Multi-cycle Support for Learning

CLO Magazine

For instance, ask 10 random employees what video clips, news reports, PDFs, briefings, or other content they have viewed or read in the past three months to be better at their jobs. You will be amazed at the volume and diversity of sources they report. The amount of content is overwhelming!”

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