The world of work demands that people stay connected. Connection enhances employee engagement, extends knowledge sharing and breeds creative solutions. Our leaders and practitioner-led panel will openly discuss various approaches to social learning in our dynamic work environments, including peer-to-peer learning and mentorship programs and social technology use for knowledge sharing. The discussion will also examine measuring the impact of social learning on employee performance, including metrics such as knowledge retention, collaboration, and engagement. You will leave with real-world examples of social learning, the challenges and solutions being created for meeting the demands of modern work and learning.

When social learning means are appropriate to the ends and constraints of high stakes performance, there are impactful considerations for any enterprise and its L&D function in the strategies and tactics they might employ in leveraging the knowledge and skills of some for the development of others. This session will address the non-conscious nature of knowledge, the continuum from very informal to very formal social learning as impacted by the performance stakes and complexity, and share examples of the content structure of social learning guides and the structure of the social learning systems administrative that might be needed on its…