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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

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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. Ton argues that a more motivational and fulfilling approach is to cross-train employees so they can perform both customer-facing and non-customer-facing tasks.

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Avoiding The Technology Trap In The Future Of Work

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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. Mobility support would also help people move to where jobs are.

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The Problem-Solving Process That Prevents Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

First, few people get training in how to be creative in their education. Resolving the first issue requires getting your employees to learn more about the way they think… a tall order for managers. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). The second issue, though, is well within your ability to change. Further Reading.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

The solution to creating more public entrepreneurs is straightforward: train them. In fact, it’s from Stevenson’s list of pressures that pull managers away from entrepreneurship and towards administration. In Boston, I worked with many amazing public managers and a handful of outstanding public entrepreneurs.

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Technology Isn’t Destroying Jobs, But Is Increasing Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

Whilst the likes of the Frey and Osborne paper predicted a pretty widespread demolition of 47% of all jobs, the reality is that those with low-skilled, routine jobs are far more at risk. Amid the concern around the automation of jobs, a long-standing truism has perhaps been overlooked.