The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

It’s worrisome that at the same time Emotional Intelligence, collaboration, and cross-cultural teamwork are being recognized as essential competencies of a successful workforce, we are drastically reducing the exposure of workers to the breadth of ideas, values, and culture in our global society.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If this post describes your organization, you need to make the transition to a learning culture. The amount and complexity of knowledge and skills that each of your employees needs is increasing dramatically every day due to technology and globalization. Likewise, today’s knowledge workers are asked to do more than just complete tasks.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

If you have scientists and engineers working across geographic boundaries in isolation and knowledge of what they are doing within the organization is limited, consider having them establish blogs to share their insights and ideas. Most knowledge workers, when hard at work, don't care what others are doing. Lessons Learned.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 29, 2017

In today’s increasingly knowledge-driven, cost-competitive work world, many organizations need their managers to continue to develop and apply their advanced technical knowledge — not only to properly direct the work and manage the people who report to them, but to help their team solve complex problems.

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Ninja Tropic

APRIL 11, 2023

It replaces the old “click next” slide presentations that eat away at our time without the benefit of increased engagement, knowledge retention, or behavioral change that comes from short-burst microlearning modules. How does this help businesses and nonprofits make lasting changes to their corporate training and learning culture?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Avoid the Culture Question Learning 2.0 implies some pretty significant changes in the way that organizations look at the role of a knowledge worker, management, the learning/training organization, boundaries of organizations, when you reach across boundaries, etc. There are some gurus who claim to be able to change culture.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Or will work itself subsume learning enabled by a transformed L&D / facilitators / coaches / mentors and the "right" organizational culture? The transitions is not impossible if there is belief and the right supportive culture. Loss of talent Smart knowledge workers leave for orgs where scope for learning and mastery are higher 6.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

This includes areas of her expertise from the effectiveness of MOOCs in corporate learning to informal learning, collaboration, community management and organizational culture. The focus must be on people, mindset and culture. Learnnovators: You seem to be passionate about discussing organizational culture.

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Learning Pool

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Data-centric businesses like telecoms will require cohorts of highly trained, specialized knowledge workers to take them forward. Personalized learning helps keep skills levels high and knowledge current. A climate of learning nurtures the development of knowledge workers.

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Docebo

JUNE 14, 2022

What role does company culture play and how much is due to societal factors? And for knowledge workers, that figure climbs to 57%. First, there’s the work environment and company culture. Simply, a toxic culture is the single biggest predictor of employee turnover. These things matter.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 13, 2009

A culture that provides access to other people who support learning in a wide variety of ways Easy access to materials that support learning Skills in utilizing electronic tools to manage learning. As I've said many times, for concept workers work and learning are inseparable. But it shouldn't just be me.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

It came up in the Corporate Learning Trends conference last week that one person was responsible for knowledge workers who were, as she claimed, passive learners. So, don’t just look at the tools you provide, and your culture for learning, but also consider your learners and how they learn.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 23, 2008

is soooo much less about technology than about culture (Duh Mark, I know). I agree with Mark that there are fairly sizable organizational culture aspects to enterprise adoption of enterprise 2.0 / web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0. I think Mark missed the bigger barriers of Changing Knowledge Worker Attitudes and the work literacy gap.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 23, 2008

is soooo much less about technology than about culture (Duh Mark, I know). I agree with Mark that there are fairly sizable organizational culture aspects to enterprise adoption of enterprise 2.0 / web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0. I think Mark missed the bigger barriers of Changing Knowledge Worker Attitudes and the work literacy gap.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Background: I think most knowledge workers approach work from two perspectives. The Role of Leadership Leadership is a keystone for establishing supportive collaboration cultures, especially in teams and communities. There are six main behaviours that leaders display that mould the organisation’s culture.[3]

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 2, 2018

Today's "knowledge worker" is very different from the industrial worker of the past. In this podcast, you will hear all about what you can do to build your organization around today's knowledge workers. . We have moved from building things with our hands to using our minds to do our work.

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Learning Pool

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

While automation and AI will produce many efficiencies – which include making some roles and people redundant – they will also, by transforming business activities, create the need for new roles and new categories of knowledge workers. This may mean up and re-skilling entire workforces.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

When organizations hold substantial in-person onboarding sessions, they do so in order to generate excitement among new employees, expose them to the culture of the organization and provide an opportunity to form relationships and start building internal networks. Company culture is conveyed through stories and norm-setting.

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Matrix

AUGUST 27, 2020

Many knowledge workers now perform their jobs remotely, while governments and individual business organizations look for ways to keep the world going. You can create a learning culture and be prepared to learn new things or to do things differently. Read more: 4 Great tips for developing a learning culture. Complexity.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

In a knowledge era, workers are the means of production. Knowledge workers do their best when challenged to figure things out for themselves. When information abounds, peers take over. To prosper in this world, forget command and control. Encourage bottom-up peer production.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 26, 2007

Henry was great at introducing the concepts of participatory culture - but he didn't really get into the implications of what this meant for all of us. not to mention in a world of Google as the interface to knowledge - what new skills, techniques and tools do we need?

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

Most anthropologists agree that a tribe is a (small) society that practices its own customs and culture, and that these define the tribe. Tribal identity in the age of the Web transcends ethnicity, traditional cultural expectations and geography (Wheeler, 2009). Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures: Cybercultures in Online Learning.

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Docebo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The reality is, though, knowledge isn’t always so readily shared, or available, and the material taught in formal situations isn’t always retained. The International Data Corporation (IDC) once estimated an enterprise employing 1000 knowledge workers wastes $48,000 per week, or nearly, $2.5 Faster completion of tasks by workers.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2021

Besides imparting requisite knowledge, this type of pre-boarding experience is inspiring and instills a culture of curiosity and learning on day one. Single entry door to all knowledge and learning. The experience is quite easy and exciting for new hires because it is completed via mobile anytime and anywhere.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The Connected Worker 21st century knowledge worker/learner "I'm only as good as my network." People change as they get older Exposure to tech socio-cultural diff Predictions about the next gen range from next greatest gen to the most miserable Digital Natives vs. We now have an abundance of information.

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PDG

JANUARY 27, 2020

A leader’s responsibility, according to this mindset, is to monitor employees and transmit their knowledge to them in an efficient manner in order to get the desired output. Contrast this with the “greatness mindset” of the more recent knowledge-worker age.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

In a world where empires of the mind dictate which nations lead economically, socially, politically and culturally, failure to educate a population effectively is courting disaster. Any nation who fails at providing a state wide world class education system runs the risk of falling behind.

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Docebo

JANUARY 2, 2020

They need to know how to discover relevant content quickly and this is increasingly vital for today’s knowledge worker. In fact, almost 40% of employees go to Google before asking a co-worker or using their employer’s learning technology. But the Learning Platform isn’t always their first port of call.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2009

Business Casual , May 16, 2009 Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences? Browse eLearning Content

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Can you discuss the cultural implications of these changes? How does this apply to non-knowledge workers? New Hire Blog - I love the idea of a new hire blog. Do you set it up so that only internal employees can view it? Are there any companies have done a good job in implementing the tools you described?

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TOPYX LMS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

If game-based learning would elevate your organization’s learning culture and help employees become better, more skilled and knowledgeable workers, it may be a good training tool. The answer to this question relies very much on the needs of both your company and your learners.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 20, 2018

A recent study from Wainhouse Research found that the youngest workers and the oldest workers have similar preferences when it comes to workplace learning — and that all learners want a variety of approaches. Koreen Pagano is a product management director for D2L.

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Vitalyst

MARCH 8, 2018

In a 1999 California Management Review article, Peter Drucker—who is widely regarded as the “father of modern management”—stated that the most important contribution management will need to make in the 21st century will be increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. They have to manage themselves. They must have autonomy.

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Learnnovators

JULY 20, 2015

In reality this has been part of mainstream working practice for many knowledge workers since the 1990s. From BYOD it’s a short step to Your Own Device At Home (YODAH) – a place where many of us now work and learn. The medium (technology) you use to transmit your story is almost irrelevant.

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Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

Workers are disgruntled 10. Collaborative Culture 15. Knowledge workers learn more than twice as much from experience as from bosses and coaches, and the training department accounts for less half of that. A company cannot take full advantage of networked learning without shifting its values, culture, and practices.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2018

For most organizations, creating an effective network of experts who share wisdom and execute business actions as a team requires a shift in organizational structure and culture as well as the adoption of a new type of technology. Time for a New Organizational Structure and Culture. They can be reached at editor@CLOmedia.com.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The Connected Worker 21st century knowledge worker/learner "Im only as good as my network." People change as they get older Exposure to tech socio-cultural diff Predictions about the next gen range from next greatest gen to the most miserable Digital Natives vs. We now have an abundance of information.

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