Archive Calendar
2012 | Apr 30
Mobile Work
“I’m regularly trying to do two things: explore mobile capabilities, and get folks to think ...”
19
Social Learning, Strategically
“Increasingly, as I look around, I see folks addressing learning technology tactics; they’ll make a ...”
Beyond Execution
“In a recent post, Harold Jarche talks eloquently about moving into the networked era, and practices ...”
17
Flipping Corporate Learning
“Flipping learning is big in education. It will be big in corporate learning. Let’s not ...”
| Mar 31
Workscapes as frameworks for change
“There are few best practices for the network era workplace, but many next practices yet to ...”
23
What About the Future?
“Fixating on the short term is foolish in the long run. The future’s all we’ve ...”
12
Net Work Skills
“Imagine if we limited our conversations to only those in the same office. We would ...”
07
Making collaborative work, work
“Everyone talks about collaboration in the workplace today but what does it really mean? How ...”
04
Changing how the important work gets done
““What Sanofi is doing is reducing its own internal research capacity,” he said. “The days ...”
02
Working Smarter in Social Business
“If you're not plugged in and running fast at work, you're falling behind.
Continuous improvement
Business people ...”
Creating Leaders for the 21st Century
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Creating New Leaders for the 21st Century (1)
Creating New Leaders for the 21st Century (2)”
01
Workforce Development Services: A new framework for providing training and learning support in organizations
“In my last blog post, From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration, I talked about how I ...”
| Feb 23
Managing Workforce Collaboration
“Workforce Collaboration in the Network Era
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy, and networks subvert standardization.
In the industrial era ...”
20
Social media budget line item?
“Where does social media fit in the organization? In talking with a social media entrepreneur ...”
14
Getting to social: you simply can't train people to be social
“So you're now a social business?
You are engaging with social media for marketing and customer ...”
13
Collaboration and community skills are the new workplace skills
“OK, these skills are not actually “new” - they’ve always been present – but perhaps ...”
10
Everything's Coming Up Networks
“Sloan Management Review has a great interview with Andy McAfeeon What Sells CEOs on Social Networking. CEOs ...”
05
When learning is the work
“What if your organization got rid of the Learning & Development function? What would the ...”
02
Enabling Innovation - Book
“I had the pleasure of writing an article for the book,Enabling Innovation: Innovative Capability – ...”
| Jan 27
Managers and Mad Hatters: Work that stretches
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This is the third and final of three posts adapted from articles written for Inside Learning ...”
26
Sharing Failure
“I’ve earlier talked about the importance of failure in learning, and now it’s revealed that Apple’s leadership ...”
25
Internet Time Alliance Insights
“We can learn a lot from open conversations with trusted colleagues who want to improve ...”
23
The Agile Learning Train is Leaving the Station
“I’d planned to begin posting my thoughts about how this Unmanagement/Stoos business impacts the administration ...”
Learning with people, not technology
“This morning I revisited the delightful story of how people learn to do their jobs at New Seasons ...”
17
Narration of Work
“I see three major principles for working smarter in networked organizations:
Transparency
Narration of Work
Distribution of Power
I spoke ...”
15
Democratization of the workplace
“There was a most interesting thread on Twitter today. Bert van Lamoen (@transarchitect) in a ...”
14
The Stoos Gathering & Working Smarter
“Ten days ago I flew to Switzerland for a mountaintop retreat with twenty thought leaders ...”
11
No more business as usual
““This is business.” — Vito Corleone, The Godfather
Business is changing, and the learning function must change along ...”
10
A World Without Bosses
“Can your organization work without bosses? In the documentary, Ban the Boss (one hour BBC video) Paul ...”
Levels of 'levels'
“I was defending Kirkpatrick’s levels the other day, and after being excoriated by my ITA colleagues, I realized there ...”
06
Performance Architecture
“I’ve been using the tag ‘learning experience design strategy’ as a way to think about ...”
04
Informal learning, the 95% solution
“Informal learning is not better than formal training; there is just a whole lot more ...”
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2011 | Dec 29
Through the 70:20:10 Looking Glass
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This is the second of three posts adapted from articles written for Inside Learning Technologies & ...”
28
Failing to Learn
“My colleague Harold Jarche pointed me to a post by Dave Snowden about deliberative practice, which I found ...”
27
Collective sense-making
“More of my online sense-making is in connecting to people, not accessing information sources. For ...”
15
Network thinking
“Curtis Ogden at The Interaction Institute for Social Change provides a very good summary of the differences ...”
‘Real Learning’: The Role of Context
“In 1885, Herman Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist, carried out an experiment that led to the ...”
| Nov 29
Learning in the 21st Century Means Adapting to Change
“Businesses talk about adapting to change quickly, but they don’t take advantage of it. When ...”
25
Reactions to the non-training approach to workplace learning
“Following my recent post on the case for a non-training approach (NTA) to workplace learning and the ...”
23
The Non-Training Approach to Workplace Learning
“The Training Department (aka the L&D dept) has traditionally focused on designing, developing, delivering and ...”
22
10 steps for working smarter with social media
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Workplace Learning is changing!
A number of people, my Internet Time Alliance colleague, Charles Jennings in particular, have highlighted ...”
20
Bridging the gap: working smarter
“Nigel Paine recently produced a very good ten-minute video on The Learning Explosion. Nigel used one of my ...”
13
Integrating learning into the business
“This is the second part of my response. See Part 1: Corporate Learning’s Focus.
Inspired by Jay ...”
12
About the Alliance, Video
“Internet Time Alliance helps organizations work smarter by embedding learning and collaboration into workflow. For recent ...”
10
Social learning is not a new training trend
“Article written for e-Learning Age magazine, November 2011
With the emergence of new social media tools, ...”
06
Social Cognitive Processing
“In an earlier post, I tried to convey the advantages of social activities in formal learning ...”
04
Insights from DevLearn 2011
“After two days of monitoring the backchannel tweets at DevLearn 2011, here are my top ...”
01
Sage at the Side
“A number of years ago, I wrote an article (PDF) talking about how we might go beyond ...”
| Oct 25
Do you really need separate social learning tools: Part 2: 6 ways to integrate learning into the workflow
“In Part One of this series of blog postings, I asked the question:
“As business is becoming more ...”
22
Why now?
“Business is Falling Behind
Business organizations are lagging reality. The 21st century is radically different from ...”
A dozen key behaviors
“Here’s shorthand for a dozen ways workers and managers in the 21st century can prosper:
Take ...”
Do you really need separate social learning tools and platforms: part 1
“We are hearing a lot about new social learning tools and platforms that are becoming ...”
19
Why do we need social business?
“The Dachis Group’s latest XPLANATiON of the attributes of a socially optimized business is a pretty good ...”
16
In a Complex World, Continuous Learning and Simple Truths Prevail
“The book ‘The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine’ is Michael Lewis’ marvellous account of the ...”
10
Social Media + Learning = much more than Social Learning
“This article was written for the E-Learning Council, and first appeared on 10 October 2011
Although we ...”
09
Learning Transformation & Governance
“Slide deck from Plenary presentation at the World of Learning Conference, NEC Birmingham, UK. 27 ...”
| Sep 30
3 simple tips for setting up online communities
“On Wednesday I spoke at the World Of Learning 2011 conference in the session on Harnessing ...”
25
Social Learning is NOT a new training trend
“I’ve written a few postings recently (notably Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does) ...”
15
The Long View
“Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning, working smarter, and systems thinking. His calling ...”
13
Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does: PART TWO
“Yesterday, in my first posting on this topic, I showed how “social learning” is not just about ...”
12
Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does!
“A few days ago my Internet Time Alliance colleague, Harold Jarche, shared this article, written ...”
Working Smarter
“Work smarter, not harder.
Have you heard that? I did, in my first job out of ...”
07
Goin’ Mobile
“This is a copy of an article I’ve written for a Wiley newsletter to promote ...”
| Aug 30
Why the Real Power of eLearning is Social
“This post was prompted by a webinar I gave on behalf of Citrix/GoToWebinar on 6th July ...”
28
Social learning: the freedom to act and cooperate with others
““Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy“ - Article #7 of The Cluetrain Manifesto, 1999.
The Net, especially working and learning ...”
10
8 Reasons to Focus on Informal & Social Learning
“Slides from a webinar for the eLearning Network of Australasia - July 2010
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09
Work That Stretches: The Best Teacher You'll Find
“Think back to one great personal learning experience you've had. It may have been in ...”
08
21st Century L&D Skills
“I was recently involved in a discussion about 21st Century learning skills in one of ...”
04
The 70:20:10 Framework
“There is a more comprehensive discussion of the 70:10:10 framework on my blog. You can ...”
Social & Workplace Learning through the 70:20:10 Lens
“There have been millions of words written and spoken about ‘informal’ and social learning over ...”
| Jul 25
The community dance hall
“In Diversity, Complexity & Chaos I highlighted several articles by others that discussed these themes and I ...”
14
Personal Knowledge Management
“Network learning, or personal knowledge management (PKM), is an individual, disciplined process by which we ...”
| Jun 22
Working Smarter: New Ways of Learning (PDF)
“More recently at the Internet Time Alliance, we’ve been focusing not on training and learning but on ...”
09
When it's just so obvious NOT to train it's painful to watch it happen
“The amount of time, effort and money wasted on formal ILT training prior to rollout ...”
| May 24
Working Smarter in the Enterprise
“On April 27, 2011, Clark Quinn and I kicked off a meeting of the Chief ...”
18
Webinar: QR Codes, mTagging and Learning
“With the increased adoption of smartphones, organisations are focusing on Mobile as a means to ...”
04
Working Smarter Glossary
“Grappling with blazing-fast change requires a new vocabulary. Here are a few phrases from a ...”
| Apr 30
It’s all about working smarter
“My work helping clients work smarter generally involves informal learning, collaboration, knowledge-sharing, organization development, and nurturing learning ...”
28
When Learning is the Work: Approaches for supporting learning in the workplace
“Two weeks ago I ran a webinar under this title for Citrix.
At the start I ...”
25
A new literacy? There’s an app for that
“The ubiquity of powerful mobile devices able to download applications that enable unique capabilities, has ...”
22
Mind map, contents, and more from the Working Smarter Fieldbook
“Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledge work and learning to ...”
20
Social Learning, Complexity and the Enterprise
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The social learning revolution has only just begun. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge ...”
07
Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations
“Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning ...”
| Mar 26
The Purpose of Education
“I set out to discover the purpose of ‘education’ after hearing about the purposed campaign. ...”
22
The Power of Conversations
““we tell ourselves stories in order to live” ~ Haruki Murakami
Jerome Bruner (1915- ) is one ...”
| Feb 17
Are You Committing Learning Malpractice?
“Odds are your organization is failing your learners in a variety of predictable but inexcusable ...”
12
Working Smarter
“Higher ground
I don’t talk much about training or learning these days.
Just because you train people ...”
09
Educational Change Starts Locally
“This post has been inspired by a week full of educational emotions. On Monday I ...”
06
Working smarter through social learning
“This past week I had the opportunity to discuss social learning in the workplace with ...”
01
Social Media Metrics
“I continue to get asked about social learning metrics. Until we get around to a whitepaper or ...”
| Jan 20
Social learning for business
“Here’s an elevator pitch, in 10 sentences, for social learning, which is what really makes social business work.
The increasing ...”
19
Thought trails
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I’ve riffed before about virtual mentorship, and it resonated again today. We were getting a tour of one ...”
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2010 | Nov 30
Harnessing Magic
“This is the extended abstract for the presentation I’m leaving today to give in Berlin ...”
| Oct 22
Network Learning: Working Smarter
““In the period ahead of us, more important than advances in computer design will be ...”
08
A New Word for Learning
“Why do I need a new word for learning? Well, according to the experts in ...”
05
Working Smarter in Berlin
“After a pleasant six hour journey north to Berlin I was quite tired on arrival, ...”
| Sep 28
Five Tips for Curating Vastness
“The bundles feature in Curated.by is very similar to Storify. They have not yet implemented ...”
| Aug 19
The Case for Communities of Practice
“In his 2001 book Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain describes how he became a professional chef and ...”
| Jul 17
It’s all relative
“When you talk to businesspeople, you must speak as they do. Executives only care about ...”
| Jun 07
Regaining Perspective in Our Cluttered Minds
“Today's posting follows on from yesterday's thoughts on shallow thinking and the effect technology is ...”
| May 09
Less is more: A different approach to L&D in a world awash with information
“Charles Jennings argues that the adage 'access to knowledge is power' is more fitting in ...”
| Apr 22
Designing for an uncertain world
“My problem with the formal models of instructional design (e.g. ADDIE for process), is that ...”
13
Manager Input: Vital for Learning Success
“For training to be effective, managers need to be actively involved in the process. Some ...”
12
Agility and Autonomy
“for social learning to be successfully implemented in an organisation it is not just about ...”
10
2.0 is a philosophy, not a technology
“Internet Time Alliance spent a couple of days last week putting the 2.0 into a tedious ...”
Rethinking e-Learning
“The opportunity we now have is to use technology to move from an event-based learning ...”
| Mar 27
Time Is Money
“Time Matters
The sooner workers are productive, the larger their contribution to the organization. This makes ...”
| Jan 29
Go straight to the finish line
“Two of my colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance, Jane Hart and Charles Jennings just returned ...”
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2009 | Dec 09
Seminal Documents
“These are fundamental, inspirational, prescient, important documents and presentations. All free on the web. Amazing! Seminal Video ...”
| Oct 22
Publish or Perish: Educational Content at a Crossroads
“It's not news that we're experiencing increasing change. The quantity of information available is growing ...”
21
The Future of the Training Department
“The latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. Before the 20th ...”
| Aug 07
Informal Learning 2.0
“In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. ...”
| Jun 28
Not Your Father’s ROI
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The July issue of Chief Learning Officer is now available online. It features an article in which Jon ...”
20
Populating the LearnScape: e-Learning as Strategy
“Extract: While adaptation and change are necessary for continued success, neither organizations nor individuals find them ...”
| May 30
The future is people, not technology
“More Human Than Human
CLO magazine, June 2009
Column on Effectiveness, by Jay Cross
The future is people, ...”
23
Accountability for Business Results
“UK politicians have been in the spotlight over the past few weeks with their creative ...”
11
Mapping metrics
“Beth Kanter shares her presentation on Mapping metrics to strategy (with slide show) focused on non-profits using ...”
09
Informal Learning Poster
“Jay Cross and Xplane desined a great infographics poster for informal learning. Click the image ...”
Optimizing Learning
“We're in a new age. Organizations can no longer be dependent on training to meet ...”
Informal Learning in a Nutshell
“Workers learn more in the coffee room than in the classroom. They discover how to do ...”
| Feb 23
Social Networking: Bridging Formal and Informal Learning
“The recognition that learning is 80% informal suggests that we need to support natural connections ...”
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2008 | Jan 31
The income statement isn’t
“At the Learning Technologies conference in London yesterday, a member of the audience inquired about ...”
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2007 | Sep 27
Making the Business Case for Informal Learning
“This question came up in an online seminar this morning. “How can I demonstrate the ...”
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2006 | Jul 18
Informal learning and performance technology
“Is informal learning just another flavour of the month that tries to be all things ...”
| Jun 10
Not Without Purpose
“No one has time. Life on earth is faster, faster, faster. We are inundated with ...”
| Apr 03
Making It Matter to the Learner: e-Motional e-Learning
“At core, you want to design experiences, not just learning. You can’t make learners learn, ...”
| Feb 21
Training: A Solution Looking for a Problem
“While listening to the radio the other day, the person being interviewed spoke about the ...”
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2003 | Feb 17
Sight Mammals
“Humans are sight mammals, proposes e-learning guru Jay Cross. They learn almost twice as well ...”
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