Serendipity.
Legend has it that a king sent his three sons in search of a magic formula to kill the dragons surrounding their home, the island once known as Ceylon, before that Serendip, and today called Sri Lanka.
Entries Tagged 'results' ↓
Always be on a quest
March 1st, 2006 — results
Talent!!!
February 20th, 2006 — need, results, time
John Hagel, reflecting on the main messages from the World Economic Forum in Davos:
Jobs
There was a lot of talk in Davos about jobs – especially how to continue to create jobs in the West to compensate for slowing economic growth and offshoring trends. I participated in one of these sessions, where I suggested that framing the issue in these terms tends to miss the point.
Of course, we are all concerned about the availability of jobs, but the more fundamental issue is talent development. If people don’t develop appropriate talent and don’t continue to refresh that talent, there will be no sustainable jobs and certainly few, if any, high value jobs. Reframing the issue as talent development also highlights the increasing importance of talent as a source of comparative advantage in global markets.
Unworkshops coming soon
February 17th, 2006 — general, results, tools
February 28 - March 16
Tuesdays & Thursdays
6 one-hour sessions + hands-on labs
Sign up for this session and receive a free copy of Robert Scobel’s book on blogs.
Announcing the Informal Unworkshop
January 26th, 2006 — general, need, results, tools
Blogs, Wikis, and Web Tools for Learning
Unworkshop?
Unworkshops are hybrid group learning experiences in which participants take responsibility for their own learning. Since people learn by doing, hands-on practice and real-world application are center stage. An unworkshop is a combination of scheduled webinars and self-paced activities. Recordings of every session are available for review. Unworkshop activities come in small chunks to accommodate tight calendars. Coaches are at the ready to help you overcome obstacles. Unworkshops challenge you to engage in “hard fun.” When you earn a Certificate of Completion, you’re invited to join a vibrant alumni community. Unworkshops will challenge the way you think about how your employees learn..
The Feburary 2006 Unworkshop
The last two weeks of February will see the inaugural unworkshop on using internet tools to deliver corporate learning. We will explore how blogs, wikis, RSS, and mash-ups can support informal learning. Our unworkshop coach, Dave Lee, who maintains the Learning Circuits Blog, will conduct individual coaching sessions with each participant and advise you while you are with us.
The good news about paricipating in a Beta unworkshop is that you can expect a lot of handholding, I will deliver every webinar live, and you get bragging rights for helping shape up the program. On the downside, you can expect a few first-time glitches, and we may have six or seven sessions instead of five (and up to six weeks instead of two and a half.) Please submit the information below if you’d like to join us. If you’d rather come aboard after our maiden voyage, click the "Contact me later" button below.
Price for participating in this unworkshop is $300.
Reserve your space now
The first dozen people who sign up will receive a free copy of Naked Conversations : How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, the brand-new book by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.
Save a space for me!
Next Step
When we have a dozen participants, Dave and I will be in touch by phone and email to check your qualifications, answer your questions, and tell you how to join us.
Informal learning findings
January 3rd, 2006 — general, results
Open source, open space, grapevines and gossip, conversations and stories, learning spaces and learnscapes, unconferences and The World Cafe, podcasts and wikis, graphics and concept maps, complexity and community…these are part and parcel of the free-range learning I investigated relentlessly last year.
Want to know what I found out? Look at this presentation to learn what informal learning is, how it works, and what you can expect in return. Don’t forget to cut on your sound. The presentation is brief, but if you get impatient, you can jump ahead by clicking the titles to the right of the main screen.
