Management & Strategy
The strategic approaches used to shape the direction of the learning function and to support the design and development of learning solutions.
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Skills-Based Practices: Match the Right Skills with the Right Job, Make the Workforce More Equitable
Skills-based practices are a more nimble and equitable way of filling workforce needs and advancing career opportunities for a more diverse range of people.
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David Kelly’s Curated Content for 5/20/2024
This edition of Curated Content explores how AI enables personalized learning, how to use contrast to improve elearning usability, what support of upskilling looks like in a hybrid era, and more.
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The 6 Pillars of a Next-Level Learning Strategy
This eBook discusses six pillars to help you build your learning strategy. You learn how to optimize your budget, resources, and outcomes to demonstrate the value and impact of your learning programs to your stakeholders.
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Learning Style Alternatives
This article examines two research-supported alternatives to the traditional learning styles (Dual Coding Theory and Universal Design for Learning). These approaches promote inclusivity and flexibility, allowing all students to enjoy successful learning experiences.
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Use AI Tools to Improve Onboarding
Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the onboarding experience.
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You’re Not Saving the World: The Importance of Reframing Your Energy
Do you find yourself wondering, “What is the point?” As asole L&D professional or leader of a small team, you may struggle to boostyour own (or your team’s) motivation and alleviate or prevent burnout. In this session, we will introduce some of the historical and societalcauses that contribute to these feelings and go through a series of questionsand reflections to redirect your energy so you can go into work happy. This isnot your typical motivational speech on burnout where suggestions like“self-care” and “meditation” are seen as the ultimate solution. Instead, wewill discuss the importance of reframing your energy to…
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Optimizing L&D in Small Teams: Best Practices for Maximum Impact
Are you the L&D teamlead—and the learning strategist, instructional designer, facilitator,evaluator, learning technologist, project manager, and other-tasks-as-assignedperson? As a team of one—or head of a small and overstretched team—you likelyneed help to develop effective and efficient strategies for achievingorganizational learning goals with limited resources. Join this session for practicalguidance on how to prioritize training initiatives, leverage technology, anddesign effective learning strategies that address the specific needs of yourorganization. Through interactive elements such as polling, case studies, andgroup activities, you will gain a better understanding of how to maximizelimited resources and overcome common challenges faced by small L&D teams with expanding…
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Training The Trainer: How We Empower SMEs to Increase Capacity
As your company scales, are you being asked to deliver moretraining without additional resources? It might be time to expand capacity bytraining your company’s SMEs in effective training delivery. This session explores steps you can take to help SMEsdevelop training facilitation skills. We will share our journey as we designed,deployed, and refined a program to prepare employees with extensive productknowledge, but not instructional experience, to deliver training sessions. Wewill discuss how we worked cross-functionally to integrate the program into theSME onboarding process to: You will leave this session with a plan to take yourtrain-the-trainer program from idea through pilot to…
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Automate Project Management Tasks Using Zapier
Some parts of project management are just tedious: forms tofill out, status updates, tasks and requests track, people to update. Most ofthese are essential—and can generate many hours of manual updates andprocesses. Join this session to learn how to automate some of thiswork; we’ll use Zapier—a no-code tool that helps you automate processes acrossdifferent tools. Let’s say you have a Survey Monkey form to capture newlearning requests for your team. Using Zapier (or another automation tool), youcan:
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Improve Learning Content Efficiency with Reusable Learning Content
Personalizing learning content to both the learner and thecontext is the best way to achieve optimallearning and performance outcomes. L&D professionals have historically achievedpersonalization by making copies upon copies of learning assets and coursematerials, tweaking each copy to meet the differentiated needs of learners.This approach is labor-intensive and prone to inconsistencies and inaccuracies,including the risk of delivering incorrect or outdated information to learners. In contrast, reusablecontent can be updated in one place, ensuring consistency and accuracy—andimproving content maintenance efficiency. All without sacrificingpersonalization and differentiated instruction. This hands-on micro master class walks you throughcreating a reusable content model. Our model entails…