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Welcome to Eolas!
Inspiration. It’s a concept that applies to many areas of life. In the world of corporate learning, inspiring our teams to embrace learning—for better performance—is our ultimate mission. Considering the many moving parts in a typical day, the ways in which we inspire our teams to learn and to increase knowledge is a challenge that continues to gain ground and importance.
Tweets, tags, blogs, Facebook posts—the ever-present and growing phenomenon of social media are among the moving parts and have had a huge impact on the current learning landscape. In fact, in this issue of Eolas, we pick up our discussion on informal learning and take it one step forward to further examine how this method is impacting corporate training programs.
Here we explore how informal learning is growing, in part, out of the knowledge management movement. We talk about the differences in the two approaches, as well as the similar goals each strategy shares in the overarching mission of knowledge sharing. Most importantly, we suggest lessons in information sharing and knowledge management that embrace the learning environment today in an effort to fuel the minds and performance of teams into the future. We encourage you to read more in our feature article, “From Knowledge Management to Informal Learning: Exploring the Path from Controlling Content to Collaboration.”
To further explore how the world of learning is evolving, CARA developed a survey to take a pulse on just how—or if—informal learning is impacting formal corporate training programs. We invite you to consider how your organization is adapting and keeping pace with the current learning landscape by participating in our 5-minute survey. Your responses will help define the role of learning in driving business advancement today and its direction in the near future. We look forward to sharing the survey results in our next issue of Eolas.
It’s no secret that partnering with our clients to meet their corporate learning needs is CARA’s top priority. Fostering our ability to achieve in this area are some valuable team members who work “behind the scenes” supporting our consultants and others who work more directly with our clients. In this issue’s Team Spotlight, we’d like to introduce you to Melissa Berg. As the “Newbie CARA Enthusiast and Support Champion in Training,” she exemplifies what it takes to fully sustain our efforts to successfully serve clients.
As always, we strive to hold up our commitment to pass along valuable information, insightful trends and techniques to help our clients’ efforts in corporate learning through Eolas. To that end, this issue also brings you links to resources that offer relevant industry information like the Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference being held October 25, 2010 for which CARA is the Platinum Sponsor. We also share a relevant client case study that details how we helped enhance SharePoint Administrator training for a more effective learning experience as well as a glimpse into happenings at CARA.
Thank you for taking time to read our latest issue of Eolas. Please feel free to share this newsletter with colleagues and we certainly welcome your ideas and topic suggestions for future issues.
Best,
Jane Ehrenstrom
Senior Vice President of The CARA Group, Inc.
[email protected]
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