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LeaderChat: Lynne McNamee on the Intersection of Marketing and L&D
For this month’s LeaderChat we welcome Alliance Member Lynne McNamee for a discussion on the world of Marketing and how we can leverage ideas from that field in our work as learning leaders.
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LeaderChat: Share Your Onboarding Approaches & Challenges
This Month’s LeaderChat places the spotlight on you! Join us for an interactive discussion of how learning leaders are adopting new approaches to onboarding and ensuring that new hires feel connected to their teams and organizations in remote or hybrid environments.
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Monthly Meeting: Saving Soft Skills from Extinction
Soft skills are becoming more important than ever, yet they’re often lacking prioritization in today’s corporate culture. Soft skills need to be a priority, even when L&D organizations are challenged by a global pandemic and shifting priorities may call for an overall reduction in programs.During today’s LLA Meetup, we welcome Jennifer Silverest and Eva Hamburger of Cisco, who will share a case study of how their team seized the opportunity to reinvent their soft skills program, save money, and deliver a successful virtual program that enabled soft skills to remain a top priority for our new hires in a remote…
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LeaderChat: L&D in the Digital Age with Brandon Carson
Organizations are facing an era of rapid acceleration. As new technology and digital strategies are integrated, workers at all levels will be required to build capability much faster than before, navigating more complex systems and processes. Yet, learning and development (L&D) has lagged in this area, as too many L&D functions still focus on transactional interactions across a broad and complex portfolio while starved for resources. For this month’s LeaderChat we welcome Brandon Carson, Vice President of Learning and Leadership Partner at Walmart and author of the new book L&D’s Playbook for the Digital Age, for a discussion exploring tips…
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Panel: Hot or Not: Exploring the Emerging Technologies Landscape
In this closing session of the Learning Leaders Online Forum we’ve invited three Guild Masters for a discussion exploring the role technology plays in our work. You will examine a host of emerging technologies and explore perspectives on where they present opportunities, and where they may present limitations and/or risks. While we explore individual trends, we will also be placing a spotlight on the common characteristics of emerging technologies that have the potential to disrupt organizational learning and provide tips on how to vet new technologies in the context of your own work.
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A New Blend of Belonging Back at Work
As organizations begin reopening offices (or deciding tostay remote), learning leaders are facing a new realm of culturalconsiderations. Beyond the physical work environment, we’re also looking at anew blend of employees’ emotional well-being and their physical safety—and examiningthe impact this new blend has on how work and learning get done. This session explores questions and ideas for creating asafe workspace where employees feel a sense of belonging, regardless of wherework happens.
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What I’ve Learned: Conversations with Senior Learning Leaders
In this conversational session, Frank Nguyen interviewssenior learning leaders Marci Paino and Scherjang Singh about significantorganizational changes they’ve led during their careers. The conversations willdescribe the situation, emphasizing how the leader developed a strategy, “sold”it to executives and other stakeholders, and engaged with other members of theorganization throughout. By capturing stories from leaders of very differentorganizations, this session will illustrate the power of storytelling whileshowcasing a diversity of approaches to leading through change.
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Learning to Evaluate Online Learning
With themove to largely exclusively online learning activity through the pandemic, trainingand learning functions have found it even more complicated to prove the valueof their work. In thissession, Andrew Jacobs will lead you through an approach to evaluating onlineactivity. We’ll discuss: We’ll alsowalk through an attendee’s issues with evaluation and provide some key supportand advice.
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Research Review: Learning Leadership Trends
The Learning Guild routinely explores important topicsimpacting learning leaders. Several recent research projects may be of specialinterest: In this session, Dr. Jane Bozarth, The Learning Guild’s directorof research, will review this important research and examine tips and takeawaysthat we can use to improve our practice.
