{"id":98,"date":"2010-10-25T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-10-28T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T16:52:24","slug":"crowdsourcing-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/2010\/10\/25\/crowdsourcing-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Grace-Under-Pressure-photos-019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-99\" title=\"Grace Under Pressure photos 019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Grace-Under-Pressure-photos-019-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Grace-Under-Pressure-photos-019-300x172.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Grace-Under-Pressure-photos-019-1024x588.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Online training has become an accepted, often cost-efficient way of training in the corporate setting. \u00a0E-learning allows people to work at their own pace, during their own available time. \u00a0But what&#8217;s lost?<\/p>\n<p>I thought back to a recent workshop we gave, in which 24 newly-minted supervisors watched each other deal with various realistic management situations, live and impromptu. \u00a0Participants commented on how valuable it was to see how other people handle things &#8211; even if their style is different from yours (or perhaps especially so!). Even though back on the job these folks will often have to act alone, the collaboration they experience in training helps give them a repertoire of possible approaches that they&#8217;re more likely to remember when they need them.<\/p>\n<p>We often emphasize the practice aspect of our workshops, and of course that&#8217;s vital: \u00a0nothing makes learning stick like actually trying it out. \u00a0But the group process may be equally important for topics (like supervisor skillls) that involve social interaction. \u00a0In a culture that still tends to overemphasize the individual, it&#8217;s useful to reaffirm the wisdom of crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jill Brazel of a Workplace Interactors program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online training has become an accepted, often cost-efficient way of training in the corporate setting. \u00a0E-learning allows people to work at their own pace, during their own available time. \u00a0But what&#8217;s lost? I thought back to a recent workshop we gave, in which 24 newly-minted supervisors watched each other deal with various realistic management situations, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/2010\/10\/25\/crowdsourcing-the-answer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-how-we-learn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.workplaceinteractors.com\/theinteraction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}