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Concluding our overview of influences which are contributing to the emergence of informal and non-formal learning in the workplace.

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Changes in the world economy are forcing corporations to rethink how workers learn and to perform effectively. How do people learn? Why? What accounts for the upswing in interest in less formal learning? Does it work?
In the corporate context, learning is about mastering technical and social skills, and product knowledge. The focus is on [...]

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Changes in the world economy are forcing corporations to rethink how workers learn and to perform effectively. How do people learn? Why? What accounts for the upswing in interest in less formal learning? Does it work?
In the corporate context, learning is about mastering technical and social skills, and product knowledge. The focus is on [...]

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I’m a big believer in attics. No, not in the spiritual sense of the word “belief;’ I don’t have faith in attics, but I like what attics represent: a place to store and save the accumulated bits of your life that you don’t need right now, but may again need at some point in the [...]

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I’m a big believer in attics. No, not in the spiritual sense of the word “belief;’ I don’t have faith in attics, but I like what attics represent: a place to store and save the accumulated bits of your life that you don’t need right now, but may again need at some point in the [...]

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The goal behind this series of posts about knowledge working and knowledge workers is to understand something of the audience that most of the efforts of organizational learning and development professionals are targeted at; the knowledge workers (KWs) themselves. Today, I’m will wrap up the series by concluding my analysis of the William P. Sheridan’s [...]

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The goal behind this series of posts about knowledge working and knowledge workers is to understand something of the audience that most of the efforts of organizational learning and development professionals are targeted at; the knowledge workers (KWs) themselves. Today, I’m will wrap up the series by concluding my analysis of the William P. Sheridan’s [...]

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Return again to a topic I looked at recently, here’s some insights to thinking like a knowledge worker I discovered while undertaking my research on the subject. The concepts explored here are investigated in much more depth in a paper called How to Think like a Knowledge Worker by William P. Sheridan. I’d love [...]

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Return again to a topic I looked at recently, here’s some insights to thinking like a knowledge worker I discovered while undertaking my research on the subject. The concepts explored here are investigated in much more depth in a paper called How to Think like a Knowledge Worker by William P. Sheridan. I’d love [...]

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Today’s post concludes my short review of Kineo’s 80/20 approach to rapid learning content prioritization and development.Previously, I considered how the 80/20 Rule could be applied to e-learning, and suggested that Juran’s Axiom of “the vital few and the trivial many” meant that we could say 80 percent of learning results originate from 20 percent [...]

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