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By: david H

david H — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:24:11 +0000

Conversation or simply put communication is the basis of all advanced development, if information is not carefully communicated advancement is made more difficult. This is true in school, science and even in your home life.

Like the post going to be back to read more,

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:35:13 +0000

I’ve now heard myself several times saying that what all people development process should be doing boils down to increasing the quality of conversations between people in and around organizations. Conversations between team members and leaders, leaders and leaders, team members and team members, etc. It seems so simple for the lofty goals of Human Resources, a profession I’ve practiced now for over 20 years. But the real learning seems to come more from a really good conversation, with someone who is good at it.

By: Peter Casebow

Peter Casebow — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:53:00 +0000

Jay, the comment about work and learning is very true we provide work based toolkits to ove 1 million managers and if we position them as something to help them do their job the usage is 5 times higher than when they are perceived as learning. When we ask them ‘learning is something that is seen as something I do after my to-do list is finished.

Also I just reviewed our top 50 toolkits and it shows that managers tend to download less than 2 tools from the toolkit when it is seen as a work-based resource. i.e. I grab my hammer and screwdriver and get on with the job.

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By: Rina

Rina — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:55:59 +0000

Beautiful! I thought what I had observed was wrong. When we can meke it mimic and interlace learning with social behaviors it will be effective. I am learning writing in first person with some very dear friends in my blog and this way it’s fun and really fun. Thanks for confirming what I believed in .
Regards
Rina

By: Inon Zadik

Inon Zadik — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:27:59 +0000

This is absolutely true. a few years ago Zerox hired anthropologists in order to found out where and how knowledge is created and what are the ways it shared. The finding show that the main knowledge development and sharing took place in the non-working areas such as the coffee counter, the cooler, locker rooms etc.
The knowledge distributed in these occasions was the concealed one. The kind of knowledge one obtains only after a few months in roll. Zerox tried to formalize these occasional meeting but it didn’t work. At the end, the company increased breaks and others actions that increase workers sharing time.

A few years ago I did the same with a group of managers, giving them ling breaks and linking those with same interest. The formal reason for meeting was a lecture but as one of them once told me: “I love the presentation, but I get much more from talking with others, they understand me and what I’m dealing with and I can learn from their experience”.

As Vygotsky said: ” learning is social”.