The message this sends for L&D is that our jobs as enablers of performance clearly need to change from being knowledge dispensers to becoming learning guides.
Impacto de la sobreabundancia de INFO y generación de K sobre nuestra profesión... necesidad de cambiar de ser dispensadores de K a guias del aprendizaje.
A new focus for training: Forget the ephemera and get down to core skills
Nuevo 'focus' en la formación: 'olvidemos lo efímero y centrémonos en las habilidades clave' (vs modelo eCompetencias).
L&D needs to move from providing detailed task-based information to helping people develop a core set of useful generic skills that will provide them with the tools to find, analyse and make decisions to act at the point in time they need to act.
This is a very different world than one focused on producing modules, courses and curricula full of ephemeral information – detailed content that has a relatively short half-life and is unlikely to be remembered in any detail beyond a post-course assessment, even if to that point.
Este es un mundo muy diferente de aquel centrado en producir módulos, cursos y curricula de INFO efímera-contenidos detallados que tienen una relativa corta vida media y que es poco probable que lo recordemos con cierto detalle mas alla de la evaluación del curso.
remember Herman Ebbinghaus' findings from 1885 - 125 years ago - that on average we will forget about 50% of what we've 'learned' within 60 minutes if the information has no context and we don't have the opportunity to reinforce it through practice.
Recordemos aquello de que... 'olvidaremos alrededor del 50% de lo que hemos aprendido a los 60' si la INFO no está contextualizada y si no tenemos la oportunidad de reforzarlo con la práctica.
The core skills we need
So, what are the core skills we need to help people develop so they can operate in this ocean of information?
To be honest, I don't have a definitive list
a. Search and 'find' skills
To find the right information when it's needed
b. Critical thinking skills
To extract meaning and significance
c. Creative thinking skills
To generate new ideas about, and ways of, using the information
d. Analytical skills
To visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and concepts, and make decisions that make sense based on the available information
e. Networking skills
To identify and build relationships with others who are potential sources of knowledge and expertise, within and outside the organisation
f. People skills
To build trust and productive relationships that are mutually beneficial for information sharing
g. Logic
To apply reason and argument to extract meaning and significance
h. A solid understanding of research methodology
To validate data and the underlying assumptions on which information and knowledge is based
there will be other core context-focused skills that people need to learn
L&D will need to focus less on content and more on developing core capabilities and skills.