Learning Culture
The alignment of an organization’s systems, structures, and people that represents its views and commitments to continuous learning, performance improvement, and growth.
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KEYNOTE: Blowing Up Stereotypes in Learning
There’s a long list of stereotypes that can get in the way of learning. These widely held assumptions affect the way people view their own ability to learn. Many of these stereotypes are so embedded in our cultures that they can affect our practice as learning professionals through unconscious bias. In order to design truly effective and inclusive learning programs, we must find ways to break through these stereotypes and biases. Dr. Kate Biberdorf has been blowing up stereotypes for years ‚Äîquite literally. Through her theatrical and hands-on approach to teaching that has been seen by millions on television like…
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Storytelling: Satisfying The Brain’s Search for Meaning
Learn how storytelling promotes learning and behavior change and how it effectively supports the learning experience by downloading this research report.
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Is Compliance Training Killing Your Learning Culture?
Getting learners to do mandated compliance training while creating a learning culture can present challenges. Learn how to accomplish both goals.
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Upside Learning Appoints Clark Quinn as Chief Learning Strategist
World-renowned learning experience design strategist, Clark Quinn, joins Upside Learning as the company’s chief learning strategist.
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Turn L&D into a Performance Department
A conversation about measuring the business impact of training can trigger panic in many L&D professionals. You want to be a strategic partner and contribute to the overall growth and success of your organization, but the corporate university structure is built to drive awareness—not produce results. This session will be an active discussion for those who desire to elevate themselves, their teams, and their impact. We’ll explore long-held beliefs about the role of training in the corporate environment that are barriers to success. Come prepared to share your thoughts, resistance, and experiences as they relate to these important questions: How…
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LLA Monthly Meeting: Learning Org Maturity: What Drives L&D Impact & Finding Your Breakthrough
Join Steve Lowenthal and Cammy Bean to explore the changes in people, process, technology, and use of analytics that organizations are leveraging to accelerate maturity and make a bigger impact on their organization.
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Don’t Lose Your Learner: How to Create a Learning Journey Map to Guide Outcomes
As learning professionals we know solutions must go beyond ‘let’s just make a training course.’ Learning happens everywhere in an organization and the needs are increasingly complex, especially in distributed and remote work environments. This is where we need to steal a powerful tactic from the marketing department: journey mapping. Understanding the learning journey, critical junctures, and personalizing the experience allows you to meet learner where they are to guide them through the process and create a powerful experience that supports long-term retention. In this session you’ll learn what the learning journey is, how to pragmatically begin constructing from your…
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Moving from Content-centric to Learner-centric Design
In today’s ever-disruptive world and dizzying array of training requests, meeting deadlines and delighting stakeholders seem to be top priority! Authoring tools and technologies are proliferating rapidly and so is the increasing demand for sizzle and wowing training deliverables, developed with minimal budgets and time constraints. Learning programs are most often ‘one and done’ or ‘one size fits all’ solutions and learning impact is often unclear or doesn’t tie back to the learner’s performance. As L&D professionals, how can we shift our design strategies and start creating unique experiences with the learner at the focal point? How can we ensure…
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LeaderChat: Kelly Cassaro on the Digital Divide
Kelly Cassaro, the chief of learning for Generation: You Employed, joins us to discuss the Digital Divide. Generation recognized early in the pandemic that addressing digital skills is only one essential element in bridging the digital divide. The other vital piece is ensuring that workers, learners, and potential workers and learners have access to the tools and platforms needed to participate.
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Monthly Meetup: Building and Sustaining a ‘Coach Approach’ Culture at Indeed
For this month’s Monthly Meetup, we welcome Wendy Taylor Wampler from Indeed, who will share how Indeed was able to go beyond just isolated coaching sessions and finding success in making coaching part of the company culture.