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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Creating such a culture of learning is something Shelley Osborne, Vice President of Learning at Udemy suggests needs five steps to be undertaken in her latest book The Upskilling Imperative. It’s only in such cultures that the kind of candid feedback that is such a crucial part of learning can be achieved.

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Raising Pay Can Help Organizations Overcome The Talent Shortage

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the unemployment rate has remained low throughout the decade since Oxford’s Frey and Osborne ignited the latest wave of concern about the impact of technology on jobs. Many managers believe that the best way to run their teams is to have no wastage or slack at all.

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Work Needs To Be Re-Designed To Allow Man And Machine To Work Together

The Horizons Tracker

Despite minimal evidence of technological redundancies since the famous paper on the topic by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne in 2013, fears have barely abated in the intervening years.

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Conflict Resolution in the Workplace

Strategy Driven

Even the most functional of teams will sometimes disagree or experience infighting, which can be difficult to manage. Example : Hotel Housekeeping Staff Managers are approaching employees on their lunch break to assign tasks, discuss changes and give directions. Managers are frustrated, angry and sometimes shouting back.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

The Horizons Tracker

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so.

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Yes, You Can Brainstorm Without Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Collaborative innovation involves the genius of the "and" versus the tyranny of the "or."

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Does Automation Result In More Jobs Being Created?

The Horizons Tracker

Since Frey and Osborne’s hugely popular paper in 2014, the traditional narrative surrounding automation at work has been that millions of jobs will be lost to the march of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence. And those are the kinds of things that managers tend to do.”. Creating jobs. Workforce composition.

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