All Learning Is Self-Directed: How Organizations Can Support and Encourage Independent Learning

Build on the idea that organizations and their employees are increasingly comfortable with the idea that learning and skills development are the responsibility of the individual worker. This volume is designed to help organizations and their HR and training groups take maximum advantage of the trend toward an independent, self-directed learner workforce. You'll learn how to develop new organizational and individual employee development strategies to meet workplace challenges.

Build on the idea that organizations and their employees are increasingly comfortable with the idea that learning and skills development are the responsibility of the individual worker. This volume is designed to help organizations and their HR and training groups take maximum advantage of the trend toward an independent, self-directed learner workforce. You'll learn how to develop new organizational and individual employee development strategies to meet workplace challenges.

Dan Tobin is the dean of Getronics Virtual University. He is also the president of Corporate Learning Strategies, an independent consulting organization dedicated to helping HR and training organizations align their work more closely with their companies' strategic business directions and expand their repertoires from traditional training activities to a more encompassing model of employee and organizational learning.