Organizations face a range of challenges in today's ever-accelerating competitive landscape. Keeping up in L&D with today's thinking and needs presents its own challenges. Ideally, L&D should be a highly strategic capability for growing people and the business, yet many impediments exist. Items to overcome often include the perception of learning itself, having an organizational culture of learning, and organizational perception of the L&D function as it pertains to creating business impact and value. Are there other models and approaches that might help L&D move from being viewed as cost center to more of a strategic resource for the organization?

In this session you will learn models and tools that will help you more effectively partner and collaborate with the business to transform the value of learning. First, this session will provide a model for an adaptive learning organization. While many organizations are undergoing digital and Agile transformation, there is a deeper level of capability that is needed to drive value and impact from learning. The adaptive learning organization framework can serve as a guide for both the L&D organization and the overall business. Designing for impact is essential and many methods focus on the design of the learning itself. Second, you'll learn models for learning ecosystems and innovation frameworks. These models will be presented as design thinking tools and will give you the ability to immediately apply the models to your own organization's transformation. Lastly, you will learn about enterprise modeling techniques that enable a new common language between L&D and the business. These techniques will enable a different approach for modeling where learning can be applied to create impact.

In this session, you will learn:

• The adaptive learning organization framework
• To assess your organization along the adaptive learning organization framework
• Learning ecosystem models and design thinking tools to better plan your future
• An innovation framework that will help the business and L&D collaborate effectively
• Enterprise modeling techniques that will help you explore and define areas to maximize investment in learning collaboratively with the organization

Technology discussed:
Analog and digital tools and frameworks