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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Pivot: Time to Reframe “Compliance” Training for Better Results?
If we reframe and rename “compliance” training as reminders of organizational values and culture, the uptake—and results—would likely improve.
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To Counter the Great Resignation: Upskill, Reskill, Empower
The best way to address the Great Resignation is by reskilling, upskilling, and empowering employees.
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Leveling Up Your Leadership Skills
As the Learning Leaders Online Forum draws to a close, we shift our focus to the future and the skills that learning leaders need to grow and thrive. This requires figuring out how we can continue to develop our leadership skills in the fast-moving world of everyday work. In the closing panel session, our panel of experts will share strategies for integrating leadership skills development into our everyday work. We’ll examine the obstacles that often prevent prioritizing professional development, and how to overcome them. We’ll also share specific ideas that you can apply in your own work that will help…
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Leadership Insights Drawn from Learning Guild Research
In this session The Learning Guild’s Director of Research, Jane Bozarth, offers some research-based ideas for answering the question: What behaviors, skills, and characteristics do learning leaders appear to share, and how can these be built and enhanced? Information will be drawn from recent Guild research reports and will cover such material as skills important for managing through crisis, lessons learned through everyday practice, tips for aspiring leaders, and ideas for developing self and others.
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The Changing Face of Learning Leadership
Several factors are changing how work gets done: the pandemic, the move to remote-first work, social injustice, and generational shifts. Our role as learning leaders must change in response—broadening to include everything from teaching leaders empathy to redefining company values. It’s all about Agile design: learning leaders need to shift into a more human-centered consultative role that delivers quick results. This interactive session consists of a series of questions to spark discussion among attendees. We’ll use research and case studies to explore the questions. You will leave this session with new commitments on how you, as a learning leader, can…
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Embrace Outsourcing While Enabling Your L&D Team to Thrive
Many organizations struggle to produce all the learning content needed for employee or customer training. Outsourcing companies promise to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The challenge is finding the balance of retaining talented developers while meeting business demands to do more with less. Integrating outsourcing can improve efficiency, accelerate development projects, and increase the value of the existing team. In this session, you will learn how to integrate outsourcing to better meet organizational requirements and customer demand. We will explore the pros and cons of various outsourcing models including considerations of budget, IT policies, locations, collaboration tools, and aligning processes.…
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Beyond the Band-Aid: Maintaining Sustainable Belonging
With so many workplaces turned upside down and inside out, employees are disheartened, discouraged, and distressed. Whether they’re working from home or in the building, employees are craving reassurance that there’s a place for them, that they are seen, heard, and valued. They want opportunities to re/connect with others (and with you!) What’s a leader to do? Find out how others have answered that question. In this lively interactive session, we’ll explore what other leaders around the world are doing to move beyond belonging to becoming an organization with a sustained sense of renewed reconnection. In this session you will…
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Revenue Enablement: Where Learning & Business Strategies Connect
Learning leaders often struggle to identify correlation (or causation) between their training programs and business outcomes. But the relatively new practice of revenue enablement does this remarkably well. This session explores what revenue enablement can teach us about using business metrics in the design of performance support programs. Revenue enablement offers the perfect storm for learning leaders eager to strengthen the intersection between learning and business strategies. Through the full spectrum of performance improvement solutions, revenue enablement teams monitor sales metrics in real time to recommend, design, and deliver both tactical and strategic adjustments in how sales organizations go to…
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4 Cornerstones of Effective Cohort-Based Learning
Many organizations have a lot of employees who need to be quickly upskilled, but the learners cannot follow traditional learning paths such as attending regular courses. You may also have a limited budget and tight deadlines, along with learning needs that depend on the context. The solution? A structured mentoring program where a cohort of learners follows an accelerated and tailored learning path that combines external learning sources with mentor-created content. Successful cohort-based learning requires four cornerstones: mentor(s), motivation, ongoing commitment, and a clear goal. Cohort participants must become a cohesive group that encourages and learns from one another. In…
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Supporting Your Company During the Great Resignation
The ongoing disruptions caused by COVID-19 have triggered workers to rethink the role work plays in their lives, including the current status of their careers, work/life balance, long-term goals, and working cultures and conditions. The Great Resignation is the term economists often associate with these reflections and the increasing number of workers who have decided to switch employers. In this thought-provoking panel discussion, we will explore the different factors that are driving the Great Resignation, discuss the role learning and development plays in addressing these drivers, and examine specific ways that learning leaders can support their organization as it navigates…