Summary
On-the-job training, performance support tools, and job aids provide a similar type of temporary learning for employees-and, as market cycles accelerate while time and training budgets decrease, this type of on-the-fly learning is becoming even more crucial. The need to maximize resources while reducing learning time will result in a decrease in "sabbatical learning"taking time off from work to pursue dedicated learning activities - and that's a good thing, says Lee Maxey, a business productivity strategist and principal of MINDMAX Incorporated in Boston. A spring issue of Smithsonian magazine pictured a deck of playing cards created for American troops in World War II to help them identify enemy aircraft - an historic job aid. We need more such simple solutions, says Maxey, who believes that several trends have converged to necessitate an increased focus on productivity and a decreased emphasis on learning. He has been using the term "sabbatical learning" for three to four years.
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Balancing Work and Learning
As a journalist, I constantly have to learn a little bit about a lot of things to complete my assignments. On topics from barcoding to Bell's Palsy, wine tasting to wireless technology, I seek out just enough information from references and experts to form a competent thesis and write an article defending that thesis. As soon as the assignment is...
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