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Jane Hart is an independent advisor on Workplace Learning & Collaboration, and Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Here she writes about how to support learning, performance and collaboration in the social workplace.

On 7 February 2013, at the Learning Awards 2013, the Learning & Performance Institute presented Jane with the Colin Corder Award for Outstanding Contribution to Learning.
Contact Jane at jane.hart@C4LPT.co.uk

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5 characteristics of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work

From the results of the Learning in the Workplace survey and my analysis of how smart workers use social media to work and learn today, 5 key characteristics of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work have emerged.â?¦

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Flat Army – Free Book Giveaway

If we truly are going to shift the L&D function from a “packaging” role to one that enables, supports and “scaffolds” learning in the flow of daily work we are going to have to make some changes in the way we actually operate.â?¦

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Constant learning is a key theme in the Future of Work

This presentation, from Innovation Excellence, explores the new ways we are working and the implications for business and for workers. Each theme has 4 trends and each trend is supported by 4 examples, supporting statistics and implications defined by PSFK Labs team.â?¦

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Workforce Development Services: A new framework for providing training and learning support in organizations

UPDATE: I have updated the WDS Framework, see my post From organizing and managing learning to supporting self-organized and self-managed learning

In my last blog post, From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration, I talked about how I have been helping organisations support workforce collaboration. â?¦

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From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration

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Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that I (temporarily) changed this blog’s title from “Learning in the Social Workplace” to “Workforce Collaboration” Why? Well, to try and avoid the “learning” word or at least the term “social learning”!â?¦

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The state of social collaboration

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“Why social collaboration? Based on proximity, people are not likely to collaborate very often if they are more than 50 feet apart” Thomas Allen, 1977

Here’s an image courtesy of Central Desktop Click the image for the large version.â?¦

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Who should be your Chief Collaboration Officer?

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There have been a couple of posts recently on the topic of whether organisations need to have a new role of a Chief Collaboration Officer (CCO) . This is something close to my heart as I am in fact Senior Director of Collaboration in the Internet Time Alliance, and I have been working recently with a few organisations as they grapple with what it means to support a collaboration culture across the whole of their business.â?¦

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Collaboration and community skills are the new workplace skills

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OK, these skills are not actually “new” – they’ve always been present – but perhaps they have not always been as visible as they should have been, as Oscar Berg explains in The collaboration pyramid (or iceberg). â?¦

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Collaboration in the Enterprise Infographic

The following infographic comes courtesy of the Socialcast blog, where they say:

“Collaboration is based on the idea that sharing knowledge through cooperation helps solve problems more efficiently. In the enterprise, this principle couldn’t be more true, especially as more and more employees are engaging with one another through asynchronous, socially-geared technology.”

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Grapevine

I've mentioned Grapevine on my Pick of the Day blog before, but Dirk Wood, the CEO has just emailed to tell me about some recent changes:

"We now have a desktop application for even easier access and communication, complete redesign, and a myriad of new features just released to complement our initial web app.â?¦

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