Informal Learning Blog — from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group

Aspirations

November 7, 2010

You may have heard me spouting off about aligning the aspirations of workers with the organizations they work for. This falls on deaf ears in North America and most of Europe where we mistakenly think treating workers as humans intrudes on their privacy.
In fact, getting worker aspirations clear (What do I want in life?) is [...]

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Giving up control

November 2, 2010

In an article titled Taking the Social Media Plunge: Learning to Let Go, Andy McAfee explores the reluctance of traditional organizations to embrace social media (and informal learning).
Many organizations appear scared to death of Enterprise 2.0. They’re worried that people will use the new tools and accompanying freedom to broadcast hate speech or porn, [...]

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Genesis of the Working Smarter Poster

October 28, 2010

This morning Dave Gray asked me if I had a few minutes to talk on Skype about the Working Smarter poster I’d like to have as a companion to the Informal Learning poster Xplane and I created several years ago.
The Informal Learning Poster
Dave shared his screen as we talked. I rambled on about working smarter, [...]

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Join the Internet Time Alliance for a Day… in London

October 27, 2010

On Thursday 16th December the Internet Time Alliance is conducting a day-long retreat in London to help senior managers prepare for the opportunities and challenges they will face next year.
Jay Cross, Jane Hart, Clark Quinn, Harold Jarche, Charles Jennings
In this private session, we discuss our latest thinking on what’s important in:

social learning
enterprise [...]

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Wisdom from Oxford

October 24, 2010

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LearnTrends 2010

October 22, 2010

Cross-posted from LearnTrends
Those of you waiting for the November 2010 LearnTrends Conference can stop holding your breath. It ain’t going to happen. Tony, George, and Jay are flat out in our efforts to make the world a better place. Also, we depend on volunteers to make LearnTrends work, and volunteers have been in short supply [...]

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Donald Clark on training departments…

October 20, 2010

If you want to learn what is really going on in learning and development while rolling on the floor laughing, you’ve got to read Donald Clark.
Let me be clear here: I’m talking about the volatile, exuberant Scot who founded and later sold Epic, not the American author of the well-known Big Dog/Little Dog blog [...]

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