• Business
• Individuals
• Education and Training

• Learn and Apply
  • Learning
  • Skill Application
  • Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Improving Workplace Performance
  • Meeting Workplace Expectations
  • Recognition
  • Recording Learning
• Career Planning
  • Making Effective Career-Choices
  • Keeping Records
  • Creating a Valued Resume

Improving Workplace Performance

We need to ask why some workplaces create what we refer to as ‘expansive’ learning environments, whilst others are more ‘restrictive’.  In the UK, the fact that 70% of the workforce of 2020 are already in work today has further increased the saliency of workplace learning since most employees completed their compulsory schooling and initial skill formation several years ago.

It is, of course, much easier (though often more expensive) to send staff on formal, one-off training courses than to re-organise production processes, re-design jobs or re-negotiate organisational controls in order to expand opportunities for everyday learning.  This necessitates a shift away from a mentality of learning to work to one of working to learn; that is, a shift from viewing learning as an event or episode to one in which it is built into everyday activity.

( Praxis Paper, Working To Learn, Learning To Work, Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson & Lorn Unwin).

MYSKILLSmanager has been developed to support the “working to learn” model.