Jane Hart’s Blog

Come and join Harold Jarche and me for 5 weeks of professional development Learning is changing. Learning professionals need practical tools and techniques to integrate work and learning while adapting to an increasingly complex environment.â?¦ […]

Last week I invited readers to take my latest Learning in the Workplace survey, where I asked how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace. Although there have been well over 100 responses to the survey, once again, as with my previous survey a pattern to the responses appeared quite early on.â?¦ […]

My next guest in my In conversation with … webinar series is Jay Cross. Here’s more information about the webinar and how you can reserve your seat as well as leave your own questions for Jay in advance of the webinar itself.â?¦ […]

Learning in the workplace is not just about taking courses or other training workshops to acquire new skills and knowledge, but is also about keeping up to date with what is happening outside the organisation – in your industry or profession keeping up to date with what is happening insideâ?¦ the organisation – in your work team or organisation, as well as […]

In May and June, Harold Jarche and I will be running another series of our popular public online workshops at the Social Learning Centre. These take place over a 2-week period and involve 5-6 web-based assignments, some individual activities, as well as conversations and discussions with other participants.â?¦ […]

Here is my pick of the resources that I shared on Twitter and in my Pick of the Day in April.  Note, for easy reference, all the resources in my daily Picks  are collated monthly on my 2012 Reading List.â?¦ […]

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance,  recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action.â?¦ […]

Yesterday, Harold Jarche shared the image on the right, in his post To learn, we must do. For me this is spot on. Whereas most people are concerning themselves with the new social and collaboration technologies, or how to get people to collaborate, for me the key to successful social learning is how the individual engages in his/her networks and contributes […]

My previous blog post that revealed that around 70% of respondents in my recent survey found training (including e-learning) “unimportant” or only “somewhat important” has generated quite a bit of interest. A number of comments focused on how we now need to make training/e-learning more “engaging” or “effective” to recapture the interest of these people.â? […]

That was one of the findings of my recent anonymous survey on how people learn best in the workplace, and even I was surprised by the results.  But I think the biggest take-away from my survey is that we can no longer assume we know how people like to learn in the workplace nor how we think people should learn.â?¦ […]