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Leveraging Marketing’s Commitment to Testing and Tracking
The question “How do we do better?” drivesleaders. Without data, though, decisions to change or keep the status quo maybe based on inertia, fear, or blind belief that how things have always beendone is how they should continue to be done. As organizations increasingly usedata to justify budget allocations, L&D is under pressure to providebusiness-centric data to show ROI. This session will explore how learning leaders can borrowfrom the testing and tracking approach used by marketers to continually improveand to justify investments. From knowledge transfer to action to ongoingbehavior, we will explore the ways that marketers frame questions, definesuccess, and…
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The Behaviors of Learning Leadership
Conversations about learning leadership tend to revolve around certain themes. We often describe learning leaders in terms of the traits they share, and we label them using the roles and titles they have in their organization. But learning leadership isn’t about your position or about a templated set of characteristics. Learning leadership is about what you DO, and more importantly, HOW YOU DO IT. In this session, we will explore specific behaviors that form the foundation of learning leadership. You will discover what these behaviors look like in practice, and how they help others view you as a leader in…
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Being Strategic About Learning by Doing
Design by Humanity, or DxH, is a design collective andapprenticeship program that works to upskill people of color and mentor theirgrowth in L&D careers. Through volunteer projects and an immersive designboot camp, DxH provides creative services to nonprofits seeking learningexperiences designed from an anti-racist perspective. In this session, we will discuss how new learning designerscan lead by example and learn by doing. By examining the intersection oflearning and doing at DxH, session attendees will get a firsthand look at howvolunteering with an organization like DxH isn’t about “doing work forfree.” Experiential learning can happen in a number of ways. We…
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Storytelling for Learning Leaders
What you’ve learned from your experiences continues to shapeyour life and influence your decisions. By sharing what you’ve learned, youenable others to gain insight into who you are and how you lead. But how do youcreate a compelling story out of a few memories and anecdotes? In this session, you’ll learn to mine your memories forexperiences that represent meaningful lessons and identify how they can benefitothers, as well as how to construct a story that will reveal how yourexperiences shaped you and inspire others to take action. We’ll explore theprocess of applying storytelling strategies to transform an experience into alesson,…
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How to Help Experts Become Content Creators
Often, learning leaders lack sufficient instructional designand content production staff. At the same time, many subject matter experts (SMEs)struggle to express their knowledge and skills in a suitable learning format.What if learning leaders could motivate and enable SMEs to become contentcreators? This session explores the tools and processes that couldsmooth the path from expert knowledge to valuable learning content through thestory of a successful transformation of SMEs into learning content creators.The session explores key factors, including fundamentals of instructionaldesign, building support into the tools the SMEs will use, and best practicesand guidelines, along with examples. This session will demonstrate that,despite…
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Learning Data in Action: A Pathway Forward
With xAPI adoption increasing and organizations moving todata-driven decision making across many functions, L&D professionals mayfind themselves playing catch-up. Many of today’s learning ecosystems havelimited, disconnected data streams. But, as platforms and data standardsadvance rapidly and organizations call for more rich insights about learningexperiences, we have an opportunity to level up our skills and our impact. In this session, Megan Torrance shares insights and storiesabout organizations that are successfully using learning data to driveperformance at multiple levels. We’ll begin with a framework to organize themany uses of data in the learning function, from evaluation and analytics topersonalization, recommendations, and business…
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Panel: How to Enhance Collaboration in Virtual Learning
When the world shut down and all work suddenly went remote, virtual learning stepped into the spotlight. Supporting remote workers will continue to be a larger part of the L&D landscape as we move past the pandemic, and it will be critical for us to engage and support these remote workers as well as those that are back in the office. In this panel discussion, our panel of experts will explore how we can enhance engagement and collaboration within our virtual learning strategies.
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Sense-Making and Social Leadership
There is a gap between theory and practice: the space inwhich we ‘make sense’ of what we learn and build the vocabulary and behaviorsto put it into practice. In this session, we will explore how this ‘sensemaking’ works and consider the role of leaders in facilitating and enabling it. We will consider the difference between individual andcollective ‘sense making’ and the ways that our thinking is influenced orconstrained by the context we already know, as well as understanding howleaders who demonstrate humility in their own understanding can create spacefor others to learn more effectively.
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How Do Learning Leaders Know They’re Adding Value? Refresh Your Learning Leadership.
There is a mad rush to get back to something approachingnormal at the moment. On the one hand, the chance to move away from theisolation, confusion, and loneliness of the pandemic is good, but on the other,building back as fast as possible is not building back better. We have a unique opportunity to consider carefully the nextstages in building an L&D operation that is fit for purpose. To do this,you have to answer three key questions: In this session, we will work on a number of challenges thatorganizations have faced in the last 18 months via short case studies and…
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Panel: Addressing the Urgent Need for Upskilling and Reskilling
Upskilling is primarily focused on helping employees increase skills tied to their current position, while reskilling is focused on preparing employees for other jobs within the organization. During the opening session of our Learning Leaders Online Forum, our panel of guests will explore why these topics have become so important and describe strategies for developing and supporting upskilling and reskilling programs in your organization.
