At mLearnCon, I chatted with Float’s Jeff Tillett for a few minutes about why people should be interested in the upcoming experiential learning workshop.

You can hear the entire conversation on the Float Learning Blog. Jeff and I chat about mLearning, Tin Can, innovation, happiness, neuroscience, and my upcoming experiential workshop.

More skinny about the experiential workshop at the Informal Learning Center.

First come, first served.

Workshop announcement and pre-registration are here.

First come, first served.

Workshop announcement and pre-registration are here.

“The Knows”

As soon as I can round up nine participants, I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning in the corporation. Here’s a preliminary description. Take a look, then tell me how much you think I should charge, whether anyone in your organization might want to sign up, and what else you’d like to see.

[Preliminary feedback: Go for it. Charge $1,000 - $1,200. Add customer learning. Consider offering a companion MOOC. Cover change management, too.]

with Jay Cross

Five interactive video conversations with Jay
Hands-on experiential learning
Limit of nine participants
Identify high-impact opportunities
Focus on a project for your company that delivers $100,000+ in benefits
Review cases and examples of successful implementations
Benchmark your organization against peers
Develop and sell your implementation plan

Format
Four to twelve hours/week for five weeks
Collaborate with a self-organizing team to solve problems
Form an on-going community of practice
Tweet, blog, link, bookmark, narrate, and record
Network socially with Socialcast, Buddypress, GoToMeeting, Google+

Become a Performance Ninja
The month-long event is appropriate for decision-makers, designers, CLOs, innovation leaders, managers of communications, and others who want to accelerate learning in their organization.

This is the alpha version of this workshop. The downside is that occasionally things will go off the rails. The upside is that you’ll receive personal attention and have a voice in selecting what we cover.

This workshop is not a course. It’s more like Outward Bound meets Oxford. You learn by doing.

Objectives
By the close of the workshop, you will be able to…

• understand what informal learning is, how it works, why it’s important
• experience learning hands-on through collaborative work, community, search, social software, blogs and tweets
• find out how to integrate learning into workflow
• review models, cases, archetypes of successful informal learning
• gain metalearning perspective, think ecologically
• spot the fakes, e.g. “managing informal learning”

• identify opportunities to improve performance by a minimum of $100,000
• prepare a business case for that informal learning project
• estimate business impact and sell the concept internally
• implementation plan, change management, cost/benefit

You will receive
Two books and the Informal Learning poster

Everyone receives:

• copy of Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Learning and Performance
• electronic copy of The Working Smarter Fieldbook: Informal Learning in the Cloud
• >300 PowerPoint slides for use in explaining concept to others
• hi-res copy of the informal learning poster
• membership in ongoing support network
• Certificate of Participation

See recommendations for Jay on LinkedIn

Join me online for Office Hours every Tuesday morning at 10:00 am Pacific. Here.

All topics are game although I’m particularly interested in social business, informal learning, positive psychology, organizational change, and prospering in the Network Era. My professional goal is creating happier, more productive workplaces.

We’ll meet in a Hangout on Google+. I am very impressed with what Google has put together. If you haven’t experimented with Hangouts, do yourself a favor; sign up now. It’s free. It’s a powerful learning technology.

Up to ten people can converse in a Hangout. They can share screens, edit Google docs, look at SlideShare presentations, see each other on video, and text chat. With Google On-Air, sessions can be broadcast live; broadcast sessions are automatically saved on YouTube. Google+ plays on iPhones and Android devices. This is disruptive technology.

Everything flows. I’m fond of saying that everything’s beta, but my weekly Office Hours Hangouts are not beta; they’re alpha. If you’re an early adopter or enthusiast, please drop by on Tuesday.