You hit the nail on the head with this statement, Harold:

.."if today’s learning professionals want to remain relevant in the coherent organization, then they need to participate in collaborative and cooperative work/learning flows."

Donald (above) makes the point that existing L&D skills are not defunct. I believe that's correct, but only to an extent, in the same way that carriage-making skills were not entirely defunct with the arrival of the motor car. Some carriage makers extended and adapted their skill-sets to meet the new challenges of building horseless carriages, others took their tools and became cabinet-makers.

The function of the learning professional as a designer, developer and deliverer of content packaged into courses and events is fast becoming only a small part of the role. Of course, structured courses and programmes still have a place, but the whole is so much larger than that. Learning professionals need new skills and capabilities to overlay existing ones as the latter become less relevant.

What are these new skills required to facilitate and support collaborative and co-operative work in a coherent organisation?

For a start there are some core capabilities and skills - critical thinking, creative thinking, communication, analytic, networking, business, financial and, of course, people skills. Then there is a tranche of domain-specific capabilities and skills.

How do we best acquire all these capabilities and skills? Through experience and exposure. By rolling up sleeves, working with business stakeholders, identifying opportunities and participating in the value creation process. By helping nurture collaborative networks, by encouraging curation and sharing activities such as internal blogging and storytelling, by supporting ways to develop an organisational culture where reflective practice is the norm, by guiding coaching and mentoring activities in all their forms ...... and in many other ways.