Upside Learning

JANUARY 3, 2012

For those who haven’t been bombarded yet by the marketing campaigns, Siri is an intelligent software assistant and a knowledge navigator that essentially functions like a digital personal assistant. Apple isn’t known to condone hackers modifying their products and software. You can find out more about it here: [link].

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Living in Learning

JUNE 7, 2019

By now content curation is a well-known activity that is credited for saving time in the search, retrieval and distribution of bulk knowledge/information. The aggregate of “time saved” rapidly dilutes as a function of what happens after the distributions are sent/posted and received by knowledge workers.

Productivity 100

Productivity Product SharePoint Knowledge Worker 100

Disprz

JULY 19, 2022

Knowledge workers are an intangible asset of a business; however, without the right skill set, they fail to capitalize on lucrative opportunities. Most knowledge workers lack the necessary skills to address the changing market and customer demands. 87% of companies say they have skill gaps or expect to within a few years.

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Knowledge Worker Knowledge Skills Cloud Computing 52

CommLab India

JANUARY 4, 2022

Are you a training manager or an L&D professional wanting to know the best instructional strategies to engage your highly productive and creative knowledge workers? Look no further! This blog has all the magical elements you need for an effective online training experience.

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Knowledge Worker Instructional Instruction Knowledge 57

Disprz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The knowledge workers who are the backbone of the banks play a significant role here in mitigating these challenges. This will help the knowledge workers update and enhance their knowledge to keep pace with the evolving banking environment and customer expectations. has added to these challenges.

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Knowledge Worker Knowledge Culture Compliance Training 52

Axonify

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

What’s worse is that this leaves employees without the knowledge they need to take the right actions at work. What’s causing this knowledge crisis? Today’s employees are required to have more knowledge and skills than ever before. Job knowledge requirements are volatile. We think there are four main reasons: 1.

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Knowledge Association Learning Management System Association LMS Sales 100

Axonify

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

What’s worse is that this leaves employees without the knowledge they need to take the right actions at work. What’s causing this knowledge crisis? Today’s employees are required to have more knowledge and skills than ever before. Job knowledge requirements are volatile. We think there are four main reasons: 1.

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Knowledge Association Learning Management System Association LMS Sales 100

Jane Hart

MAY 23, 2015

In the workplace, this is particularly important, as I showed in an earlier blog post, where Jacob Morgan talks of the future employee moving from “knowledge worker” (knowing stuff) to “learning worker” (learning new stuff). In this fast-moving world, we constantly need to learn new stuff. It […].

Knowledge Worker 100

Knowledge Worker Productivity Product Technology 100

Paradiso Solutions

MAY 6, 2025

It’s easy to feel productivity slipping away between back-to-back meetings, overflowing inboxes, and countless training projects. Through real-world L&D scenarios, detailed use cases, and even client insights, discover how AI-driven learning solutions like Eva can boost your teams productivity and effectiveness. Lets dive in.

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Microsoft Teams Productivity Product 52

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Typical Long Tail Carried further, when distribution, storage and production get lower, it becomes viable to sell relatively less popular products. Thus, markets in Long Tail situations shift towards larger volumes of increasingly broader products with smaller volumes at the top. Time (attention) is much more important.

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Long Tail Attention Corporate Learning Corporate eLearning 111

ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. In a knowledge economy, the individual is the knowledge creator, and relationships are the currency. David Wilkins in Learning 2.0

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Learning 2.0 Blended Learning Social Networks Gartner 132

Ontuitive

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Putting an emphasis on productivity. Research suggests that in an eight-hour day, the average worker is only productive for two hours and 53 minutes. Some of this lack of productivity can be blamed on employees wasting time looking for the information needed to do their jobs. Making L&D decisions from the ground up.

Trends 184

Trends Develop Agile LMS 184

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2013

The world of knowledge sharing and user-authored content is not something to fear. As the corporate learning industry has evolved in the past few years, we now spend a lot of time talking about Gen X and millennials’ learning styles, user-authored content sharing, expertise directories and knowledge sharing.

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Knowledge Taxonomy Authoring Expert 87

TalentLMS

JANUARY 8, 2020

We asked 37 productivity experts a simple question: can employee productivity be trained? But how exactly do you train people on productivity? As everybody seems to be talking about workplace productivity these days, we wanted to explore how experts in the matter believe it can be trained. 36 said yes. Create habits.

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Productivity Product Expert PENS 98

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The paragraph below taken from Harold Jarche’s post Success depends on who we work with reminded me of a post I had written some time back, the Molotov cocktail = Weak ties x complicated knowledge. Weak ties create havoc when people need to transfer tacit knowledge. I have pasted the quote below: 1. What is required is diversity!

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Cognitive Diversity Training Social Networks Knowledge Worker 165

Tony Karrer

JANUARY 18, 2010

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. I actually think this is some of the most valuable stuff on my blog, and I believe that most knowledge workers are not really taking advantage of this at the level they should.

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Predictions Diversity Training SharePoint Authoring Tools 200

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Address the need to share knowledge over distances or the value of timely information to sales tactics, don't focus on the technology. If that feeling doesn't exist, social media won't work as a productivity enhancement tool. Rename Instead of social media call it "Knowledge Media." or "What problem are you trying to solve?"

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Social Media Big Question ASTD Wiki 145

Ontuitive

JUNE 15, 2022

Especially in both the pharma/biotech and financial services industries, legacy tech is usually very complex and leveraged by highly skilled and/or highly specialized knowledge workers. Legacy systems require dedicated resources for adequate training, which is often limited to seasoned employees with years of knowledge.

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Adopt Adoption Digital System 184

CLO Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

Throughout this change, HR and L&D must cooperate to create a symbiotic link between human knowledge and AI capacity in contemporary companies. Using tools and approaches helps to preserve crucial human knowledge and facilitates cross-generational interaction. Programming: Foundation of Python, Java or R for AI system knowledge.

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Roles Simulations Case Study Attitudes 84

Tony Karrer

MARCH 31, 2011

I'm hoping that readers can weigh in on both aspects: (1) specific thoughts or suggestions on LMS products that might fit and (2) how do you get answers to questions like this? Typical Gap Found The biggest gap is in the number of credits most LMS products allow on a course. Does customization make sense?

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LMS Learning Management System Education System 180

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

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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Compliance Training Knowledge Worker Big Question Write Blog 100

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

The guys I'm working with are the technical sales folk and as we were working out their strategic story they mentioned that the passion that was once there for their products seemed to be waning among some of their technical specialists. how typical knowledge workers do not appreciate being instructed; involvement is the key to motivation.

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Collaboration Providers Knowledge Worker Specialist 100

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Gratton says in the book: "A crucial question for understanding the future of work is predicting what people will actually do with this unprecedented level of connectivity, content and productive possibilities. Loss of talent Smart knowledge workers leave for orgs where scope for learning and mastery are higher 6.

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Network Diversity Training PKM Social Networks 202

Disprz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The brain (knowledge workforce) and the face (frontline workforce) of the company, play a vital role in outmaneuvering these uncertainties. fall in the category of knowledge workers. A drastic change in the learning patterns of the frontline and knowledge workers has been visible pre and post-pandemic.

Knowledge 52

Knowledge Skills Knowledge Worker Cognitive 52

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

the ONA demonstrated the extent to which the production division had become separated from the overall network. While the formal organization facilitates systematic, process driven work, the informal enables innovation, learning, just-in-time information, productivity and quality improvement, improved job satisfaction.

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Network Analysis Collaboration Social Networks 128

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. Using mobile learning and other delivery methods helps learners achieve specific knowledge via online training.

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microlearning Benefits Organization Business 40

Learning Pool

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Data-centric businesses like telecoms will require cohorts of highly trained, specialized knowledge workers to take them forward. Employees will need new skills to utilize and sell enhanced tools, services, and products and deliver the expertise and experience customers demand.

Performance Support 110

Performance Support Performance Knowledge Worker Cloud Computing 110

Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Learning for most people means acquiring skills and knowledge in a formal way – “studying” if you like. In fact this is very likely to be counter productive; people don’t want to told to participate and required to contribute. But let me now discuss the 5 questions I asked. (1)

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Quiz Blended Learning Social Media Performance Support 198

Capytech

JANUARY 7, 2021

The manufacturing sector continuously improves and evolves, constantly seeking new ways to enhance productivity, efficiency, and profitability. Automation on production and packaging lines is well-established, but that automation is now being extending even further. Shift Towards Knowledge. The Future of Manufacturing.

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Blended Learning Knowledge Worker Module Learning 93

Tony Karrer

MAY 13, 2009

As I've said many times, for concept workers work and learning are inseparable. For a knowledge worker, generally its something like the start of a new project or a new kind of situation that sparks the need for learning. Make it easy for people to publish their knowledge and subscribe to the information they want.

Coaching 103

Coaching Online Long Tail Knowledge Worker 103

E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this research study , strategy consultants who used GPT-4 as a tool to assist them with “inside the frontier” tasks (within the capability of AI) performed significantly better than their counterparts did in terms of quality and productivity. Hence for such tasks, the authors called AI a quality and productivity booster.

Quality 177

Quality Consulting Authoring Sound 177

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Speakers and topics include: Alvaro Fernandez: Brain Fitness for Peak Health and Performance Dave Gray: Visual Literacy, Learning Innovation Kevin Wheeler: The Future of Talent Dave Pollard - Working Smarter: Improving the personal productivity of knowledge workers.

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Free Trends Social Networks LearnTrends 102

eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 5, 2010

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. Workers can also improve productivity and use their own time more efficiently, as they no longer need to travel or fight rush-hour traffic to get to a class.

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Corporate eLearning eLearning Consultant eLearning Simulations 169

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 6, 2007

I've been slowly making my way through Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living - How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers. If anything this tool has detracted from productivity, not increased it. Bill Ives argues that his own blog is really a vehicle for managing his own personal knowledge.

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Blogging Write Blog Knowledge Worker Social Software 100

Living in Learning

MAY 9, 2019

Content & Resources the Knowledge Worker relies upon to optimize their individual performance at the task-centric and role-specific levels.

Assessment 100

Assessment Resources Content Knowledge Worker 100

TalentLMS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As the Head of Global Community at Asana, Joshua Zerkel is no stranger to the realities of what distractions at work and a lack of productivity look like. “In fact, the average worker wastes one hour, four minutes daily due to distractions.” A little productivity training could go a long way. What is the no.1

Knowledge Worker 91

Knowledge Worker Communication Teams Productivity 91

Learnnovators

MAY 8, 2024

She wrote the AI and Emerging Technologies section of ATD’s Talent Development Body of Knowledge (TDBoK). Margie also offers her own masterclass, AI for Talent Development Professionals, which prepares knowledge workers to use AI to enhance their own productivity by gaining workflow efficiencies.

Instructional Design 173

Instructional Design Coaching Performance Support eLearning Strategy 173