Why not embed learning into the workplace instead?

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How can the new generation leverage their digital knowledge in the workplace while learning to develop trusted relationships with coworkers and clients in a more traditional sense?

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We need to re-think the workplace to make it more of a learning place, where employees can learn faster by working together, often beyond the boundaries of an individual enterprise.

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One popular workplace tool, for example, is the Learning Style Inventory, published by the Philadelphia-based Hay Group.

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As companies begin unveiling their workplace benefits for next year many employees are learning they will have to dig even deeper into their pockets for health coverage.

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Instead, why not make the workplace itself into the classroom environment and every work interaction a learning experience?

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Leveraging 21st century workplace skills cultivates a new way of educational thinking that makes learning both active and interactive, essential for life outside of the classroom.

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In a rejection of the usual case study methodology, participants focus their efforts on the challenges they and their peers face in the day-to-day workplace, and apply the solutions they have developed with classmates as soon as every learning session comes to an end.

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Rather, learning to achieve nothing is about being skillful when engaging the many provocative and complex circumstances that increasingly define our global workplace, discerning what is hidden, appreciating a gesture of affection, grasping the intention of a paradox, accepting an unexpected invitation, celebrating a mixed triumph, learning from an alarming emergency.

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