Corporate Learning’s focus — from Harold Jarche

Q1) Close to 80% of learning happens informally and 20% formally, yet we spend most of our time and money on the 20%. How could we better support this and shift our time and money?

There are a few ways to address this imbalance…

Q2) Novices and experts have very different needs (curve from formal to informal). What needs to be in place to better support those differences? How can we support these differences across diverse business units (sales, service and specialized functions)?

Jay Cross and Clark Quinn have used this to explain the formal/informal mix by level of experience…

Q3) How can we shift from teaching content to developing search & find skills, critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, analytical skills, networking skills, people skills, and reasoning and argument skills?

Organizations should start with…

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5 Stages of Workplace Learning — from Jane Hart

I interrupt my series of postings on Collaboration Platforms, to talk a little about the stages of Workplace Learnng

As I have read the comments on my recent postings as well as tweets and postings on other blogs,  I’ve identified what I think are 5 main stages of workplace learning.  I’ve tried to capture these,  in a very rough and ready way, in the diagram below.

5 Stages of Workplace Learning

But some of the key mindset changes that will move organisations into Stage 5 are:

  • recognising that working=learning; learning=working
  • understanding that informal learning needs to be enabled, supported and encouraged – but not designed or managed
  • “letting go”, so that there is a move from learner control to learner autonomy
  • realising that autonomous, independent and inter-dependent, self-directed learners are essential  in an agile organisation

More here…

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