It's Time to Revolutionize Corporate Learning
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Jay Cross
I spend a lot of time thinking, writing, speaking and working in my own personal and professional venn diagram of: leadership development; social collaborative tools; and all things related to lear…
Jay Cross’s insight:
A provocative read (JDI). Marcia, Dan, and Kerry are right in line with my thinking although we use different terminology and approaches to get there.
A “Workscape” is the locus of work and learning (which are converging so rapidly, they are one and the same). It may be the factory floor, a home office, or a meeting at the customer’s site. The Workscape is the learning platform. Tinkering with it makes the whole system function better.
For example, the Workscape should provide easy way to seek and pinpoint needed information. Similarly, the Workscape should make it simple to find and collaborate with others. The Workscape culture must encourage experimentation. It even gets down to physical factors such as the availability of conference rooms and conversation nooks, wi-fi in the cafeteria, big monitors on the desks, and plenty of windows.
“Corporate learning” is fiction, an artificial aggregation of individual learning by workers and small teams. Hence, the focus shifts to personal development plans, supported by managers who assign stretch jobs that enable people to learn by experience.
People cement their knowledge by sharing it with others. The authors call this curation. I’ve thought of it as narrating one’s work. The result is the same.
Harold Jarche has been advocating these basic steps as individual practice for dealing with a complex world. Seek-sense-share. The authors’ learning nouveau is what results if everybody is doing their 3S personal knowledge management.
Personally, I applaud the notion that business needs fewer functionaries and most artists. I have the bruises and scars that show it’s a tough sell.
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