How to revolutionise workplace learning

Marcia Conner is a former corporate executive who is now dedicated to “reinventing a vibrant healthy world”. She advises leaders, governments, corporations and schools across the globe on how to reshape their organisational practices. The author of four books, including The New Social Learning: Connect, Collaborate, Work (2nd ed., ATD Press, June 2015), she works to find better ways for people to learn, collaborate and achieve professional success. We caught up with her to find out what the big problems she faces are, and what drives her passion for her work.

 

By Alasdair McKinnon, 

 

How do organisations get workplace learning wrong, and how can they fix it?

 

Marcia: Years ago, workplace educators began to segment what they provided employees into artificial and misleading categories, for example “formal” and “informal” learning, or “e-learning” “blended learning” or “social learning”. This happened because prior to the general use of computers to reach people across the miles, they thought their product was classroom-based education.

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