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3. High engagement learning.

4. Competency-based learning.

5. Assessment for learning.

6. Collaborative learning.

7. Quality learning products.

8. Sharing economy.

9. Relevant and Regularly Updated Content.

international conference calling platforms, like UberConference, teaming up with businesses like Slack and HipChat, encouraging the collaboration while in conference with company decision makers. This will keep people connected at the same time and allow multitasking to take place more effectively in one centralized location.

On the go, customers are looking for speed, reliability, and control.

gain the support and specialized knowledge of veterinarians trained in shelter medicine.

their employees spontaneously started building wikis to document important discoveries and share scientific information.

They are replacing offices entirely. For people who work in virtual teams, apps like Slack are the workplace.

social media works in the office when it brings like-minded colleagues together for collaboration.

But when you work on a virtual team, your choice is either adopt the new software or stop coming to work. In other words, there is no real choice. You have to accept the new platform, regardless of the changes it brings

The one user survey the company has conducted, however, shows that the majority of Slack administrators believe their teams are up to 40 percent more productive.

Slack founder Stewart Butterfield has said the boost in productivity comes from eliminating e-mail, but Henderson scoffs at that idea. He thinks Slack teams are more productive because they can communicate better. Plus, they can catch up on what's happened while they were gone because conversations are held in searchable logs. Most of all, he says, Slack is about stepping up productivity by "reducing meetings." That's the "big one," Henderson emphasizes.

They’ve not participated in online forums, shared their own learning journeys though sense making activities such as blogging or working out loud. Many have not used their own enterprise social networks.

In order to understand the impact of social learning, the learning and development professional will need to have gone through the personal learning journey themselves.

They need to be social themselves.

This means that they are already incorporating new skills such as social collaboration, network building,  knowledge sharing, working out loud, content curation and publishing, community building and sense making into their own work.

Myth 4: Social Learning is About Forcing Your People to Use Your New Social Learning Platform

Create activities that encourage adult learners to use sites like LinkedIn and Google Plus as invaluable tools. This can help them to not only build their social network, but collaborate with those who share the same interests.

However, mature learners prefer to engage in eLearning experiences that help them to solve problems they encounter on a regular basis (in the here-and-now, rather than the future).

Motivation is key with adult learners. As such, you will need to motivate them to learn by offering them a reason for every eLearning activity, assessment, or eLearning module they'll need to complete.

Beware of giving the following excuses to avoid delegating: "It takes too long to explain." "No one on my staff is capable of doing it." "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself." "My people are already overworked. I can't dump anything more on them."

Step 1: Choose What to Delegate

Step 2: Choose the Right Person to Delegate to

Step 3: Communicate What You Want Done

WHAT do you want the employee to do? WHY did you choose them to do it?