<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 2/4/2012 8:27:11 PM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/en/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=2893d4b5-a281-483e-b18c-d036593639ea" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Jean Wemaere's blog</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:27:11 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint CKS:EBE</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Jean Wemaere's blog</title><url>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en</link></image><item><title>Illiteracy slows annual growth</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2012/01/20/Illiteracy-slows-annual-growth.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2012/01/20/Illiteracy-slows-annual-growth.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
 
During this time of crisis, the fight against illiteracy is one of the major struggles of our society, involving many economic and social issues. Denis Tersen, director of the Paris/Ile de France regional development agency, explained in Le Monde on January 10 that &quot;from a macroeconomic po... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:40:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Creativity/default.aspx">Creativity</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Knowledge/default.aspx">Knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Learning/default.aspx">Learning</category></item><item><title>Talent: an ever changing concept</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2011/12/28/Talent-an-ever-changing-concept.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2011/12/28/Talent-an-ever-changing-concept.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
In my post of October 27 on &quot;The Human advantage&quot; I talked about a survey conducted by the Boston Consulting Group which asked 2,000 HR Directors about their priorities. They placed talent management as a top priority, meaning identifying potential talent, training employees and then ret... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:13:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Career path/default.aspx">Career path</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Knowledge/default.aspx">Knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Lifelong learning/default.aspx">Lifelong learning</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Management/default.aspx">Management</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Standards/default.aspx">Standards</category></item><item><title>The Three Major Trends in Education and Training Today</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2011/12/01/The-Three-Major-Trends-in-Education-and-Training-Today.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2011/12/01/The-Three-Major-Trends-in-Education-and-Training-Today.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[n my blog of April 2008 entitled &quot;Knowledge: the new wealth that will replace oil,&quot; I mentioned how a country, Qatar, wanted to switch its economy from being oil based to knowledge based.  This is also the country that created an Education City from sand dunes, made up of universities, com... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:32:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Business/default.aspx">Business</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Creativity/default.aspx">Creativity</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Innovation/default.aspx">Innovation</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Knowledge/default.aspx">Knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Sharing knowledge/default.aspx">Sharing knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/University/default.aspx">University</category></item><item><title>How can we overcome unemployment and skills shortages?</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2011/11/15/overcome-unemployment-and-skills-shortages.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2011/11/15/overcome-unemployment-and-skills-shortages.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Today we are living through the double phenomenon of unemployment and skills shortages. In a world with a population of 7 billion people, 3.1 billion people work and there is an under-employment rate of nearly 20%.  There is also a rate of 7% unemployment and 13% part-time or temporary workers. Youn... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:13:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Business/default.aspx">Business</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Career path/default.aspx">Career path</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Companies/default.aspx">Companies</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Key and transversal skills/default.aspx">Key and transversal skills</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Management/default.aspx">Management</category></item><item><title>"The Human Advantage"</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2011/10/28/the-human-advantage.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2011/10/28/the-human-advantage.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[ne of the biggest HR development concerns today is the creation of value through the constant improvement of human performance. This was what was studied in the latest survey of 2000 HR managers in the world by BCG and the European Association for People Management. The study, called &quot;Creating ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Career path/default.aspx">Career path</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Companies/default.aspx">Companies</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Key and transversal skills/default.aspx">Key and transversal skills</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Knowledge/default.aspx">Knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Learning/default.aspx">Learning</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Operational knowledge/default.aspx">Operational knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Web 2.0/default.aspx">Web 2.0</category></item><item><title>A good training must have a good trainer</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2011/10/21/A-good-training-must-have-a-good-trainer.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2011/10/21/A-good-training-must-have-a-good-trainer.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
It has become quite common to hear people say that the trainer's role in the result of a training is modest. Researchers from Princeton University (Morgan McCall, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo of the Center for Creative Leadership) estimate that only 10% of training’s result came from the ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:29:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Experiment/default.aspx">Experiment</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Knowledge/default.aspx">Knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Learning/default.aspx">Learning</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Sharing knowledge/default.aspx">Sharing knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/University/default.aspx">University</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Trainer/default.aspx">Trainer</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Training/default.aspx">Training</category></item><item><title>The OECD considers adult education “crucial”</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2011/10/04/The-OECD-considers-adult-education-crucial.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2011/10/04/The-OECD-considers-adult-education-crucial.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
In the latest report of 13 September on education, the OECD affirmed the importance of adult education in order &quot;to meet the challenges of economic competitiveness and demographic change and to fight against unemployment, poverty, exclusion, and social marginalization of a significant number ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:19:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Europe/default.aspx">Europe</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Knowledge/default.aspx">Knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Lifelong learning/default.aspx">Lifelong learning</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Organisational learning/default.aspx">Organisational learning</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Training/default.aspx">Training</category></item><item><title>Team learning</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2011/09/19/Team-learning.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2011/09/19/Team-learning.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[After e-learning, blended learning, mobile learning, rapid learning, and distance learning, now comes team learning, a classroom based training.
This new form of training uses the classic techniques of team building activities, including role-plays and other games to spark creativity. Creating a ta... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:48:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Collaborative work/default.aspx">Collaborative work</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Knowledge/default.aspx">Knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Organisational learning/default.aspx">Organisational learning</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Professional Communities/default.aspx">Professional Communities</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Training/default.aspx">Training</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Web 2.0/default.aspx">Web 2.0</category></item><item><title>Knowledge Rock Stars</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2011/09/05/Knowledge-Rock-Stars.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2011/09/05/Knowledge-Rock-Stars.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[After creating two media groups, Future Publishing and Imagine Media, which publish popular magazines about computers, Chris Anderson launched &quot;The Sapling Foundation.&quot; This Foundation's goal is to use new technologies and media as tools of communication  to raise awareness of global issue... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:48:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Collaborative work/default.aspx">Collaborative work</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Creativity/default.aspx">Creativity</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Innovation/default.aspx">Innovation</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Knowledge/default.aspx">Knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Sharing knowledge/default.aspx">Sharing knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/University/default.aspx">University</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Web 2.0/default.aspx">Web 2.0</category></item><item><title>Rugby and training</title><link>http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/2011/08/01/Rugby-and-training.aspx</link><guid isPermaLink="False">/en/archive/2011/08/01/Rugby-and-training.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[On May 16 the French Rugby Federation and the Blanquefort CFA (Public works and construction training program) signed an agreement to offer young people the opportunity to improve their professional level rugby skills and learn about careers in construction.
 
Headed by Marcel Malmartel, Secretary... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Violaine Bazil</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:59:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Experiment/default.aspx">Experiment</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Innovation/default.aspx">Innovation</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Learning/default.aspx">Learning</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Operational knowledge/default.aspx">Operational knowledge</category><category domain="http://www.jean-wemaere.com/en/archive/tags/Training/default.aspx">Training</category></item></channel></rss>
