Taking the Training out of Learning

Moving Learning | London, UK | 29 May 2006

Charles Jennings, Global Head of Learning at Reuters, is to present at Moving Learning 2006 on Taking the Training out of Organisational Learning.

Charles Jennings will draw on his experiences in managing Reuters' internal learning organisation and its strategy of focussing on the performance of Reuters' people and how they learn in today’s rapidly evolving information-rich business world.

Charles Jennings, talking about his forthcoming presentation, said: “To be effective in today's world we need to know less and learn more. That may seem illogical.  However, the amount of information available to us is increasing at 30% per year and much of the information and knowledge that we need to do our jobs and live our lives has an increasingly short useful life. So, we can no longer ‘know all there is to know’ about anything, and it’s unwise even to try.”

“In the face of this steamroller of data, information and knowledge, traditional training models can no longer serve us effectively. The word knowledge worker in today’s world is a misnomer. Knowledge workers actually need to hold less knowledge in their heads to do their jobs than they did 20 years ago. However, they need to have the skills to be able to find the right information and knowledge, and build it into capability as efficiently as possible. To do our jobs, we need to be flexible and fleet-of-foot, and our learning provision needs to be fleet-of-foot as well.”

Event organiser Marielle Buijink, said: “Charles Jennings is a well known and highly respected learning management professional and a regular contributor on European learning management conferences and seminars. We’re delighted that Charles will be presenting at Moving Learning 2006 and we’re looking forward to putting on a great event this June.”

Moving Learning 2006 takes place at Microsoft Reading, UK on 14 June 2006 and Hotel Artemis Amsterdam, Netherlands on 15 June 2006 and is sponsored by Compu'train, Global Learning Alliance, LearningGuide, Microsoft and QA. Other speakers include Allison Rossett of San Diego State University and Alison Hollas of ntl:telewest. For complete program details and registration visit www.movinglearning.com.