Current Shifts in Corporate Learning Meet'Enabler Competencies'

In our global and digital reality, new tools of social communication have unavoidably ushered in an era where all of us (including those not using online social platforms) have to rethink the corporate learning and workforce development process and rebuild it in a way which is fundamentally different from anything before. Universities are introducing concepts and the web of relations between them, while in corporate environments, where multinational, multicultural, multigenerational and tech-savvy surroundings are the basic settings, these concepts are placed and validated in diverse contexts. Workspaces are (or will be shortly) transformed into mobile-enabled, multi-platform-driven, game- and community-based learning spaces. Are learners and organizations prepared to leverage them? Research indicates that the key priorities of organizations’ learning leaders must be the facilitation of learning and knowledge sharing through predominantly informal ways and the establishment of the necessary structures around them i.e. through a ‘corporate university’ and the development of ‘enabler competencies’.