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The articles selected for this month's edition of WorkplaceXpert present ideas on how trainers and HR professionals can help workplaces be truly responsive and effective. Our profession needs to have vision and imagination, as well as a strategy to plan and execute learning and training initiatives.

We need to be creative, imaginative and thoughtful about our own role, while having the tools and systems that ensure the right people are in place. 

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The Nexus of Learning:
The Intersection of Formal and Informal Education
By David James Clarke IV

In the beginning, there was learning, and it was unstructured. From the primordial ooze of early man’s brain came the concept of on-the-job training. One caveman would pummel an unsuspecting woolly mammoth, and then miraculously, others would follow suit. When fire was invented, Neanderthals learned quickly not to touch it, and of course, modern man quickly realized that Advil works much better for a headache than power tools. The point is, early learning was unstructured and experience-driven. Learn More

Learning Strategy Master Plan
By Mark Harrison

The elusive search for the holy grail of learning and development has always been the creation of a learning organization. So how do organizations get there? Countless pages have been written on this since and so there has been much greater awareness of what makes an organization a real learning organization. What do you have to do to do to reach this goal?

In this, the first of four Insight Briefings, we look at the main characteristics (identified by the American Society for Training and Development) that are consistently present in the most successful learning organizations.  Learn More

Blended Learning is the Thing
By Clive Shepherd

One of the most common objections to the razzmatazz about blended learning is that it's nothing new - blending is something we have always done. There is obviously some truth in this, Inside Learning Technologies because we can probably all think of some examples of training interventions that have successfully combined a variety of media. But to maintain that this has been in any way the norm is clearly wide of the mark.  Learn More

Teaching Facts with Fun, Online Games
By Karl M. Kapp

Simple online games encourage the Gamer Generation to stay engaged with e-learning. On the verge of a large scale invasion of corporate America are about 90 million people born in the early 1980s who are labeled “gamers” by John Beck. Beck is the co-author of the book Got Game - How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever. Beck’s work explains how gamers are different from other generations in terms of both their use of technology and their high comfort level with it. Learn More

Leaders in Short Supply
By Sandy Ogg and Marshall Goldsmith

Business in the 1990s continued to increase in complexity. More and more this environment forced senior executives to juggle shifting priorities to deal with the constant and accelerating change. Increased competition, international expansion, rapid deregulation, growing interdependence, industry consolidation, internal reorganization, and other potential "game changers" are just a few of the challenges faced daily. Learn More

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