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June 2019
How High Performing Employees Learn and why it Won’t Show up in ROI
Time spent learning is a common metric for measuring knowledge gained and learning ROI. However, this metric assumes learning and working are mutually exclusive, and an employee cannot learn and produce at the same time. Yet, in reality, employees often learn in short bursts in concert with their workflows. In this webcast, you’ll learn about: • Define and provide the science behind performance adjacent learning behavior • Explore how performance adjacent learning tools enable this valuable way of learning •…
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How to Adopt a Servant Leadership Mindset at Your Organization
In most organizations, the leaders are the ones that hold the power. Their leadership style resembles one of a traditional hierarchy, where the leaders sit on a pedestal while making commands, have the control, and demand certain outcomes from their employees. Servant leaders are disrupting this traditional style of leading by putting the employees first, and research is finding that this disruption of the leadership status quo has many benefits. Join Libby Powers from BizLibrary, as she explains the positive…
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Taking Flight: Progressive Leadership Development at the NBA
Coming off of the highly successful launch of strategic leadership initiatives in 2015 and 2016, the National Basketball Association’s learning and development team entered 2017 flying high and anticipating that the most rigorous design work was, at least for a time, behind them. Spoiler alert: It was not. While the more tactical, day-to-day leadership development programming was not “broke,” it became clear that the new standards of practice could no longer be met by undertaking a simple refresh. In other…
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Supporting Employee Development Through Personalized Learning
Employees are tired of the traditional one-size-fits-all learning experience. In a culture that values the importance of customization we need to adapt our programs to suit learners’ needs. By personalizing learning, we can empower our teams to grow and adapt to a continuously changing work environment. This growth benefits the individual who is taking a course and their entire organization, as these employees will be engaged and have an increased skillset that can be directly applied to their work. At…
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How Digital Transformation is Disrupting Learning
L&D is undergoing its own digital transformation with the rise of new learning technologies from AI and chatbots to social and mixed reality tools. How can you integrate digital technologies in your L&D programs to drive more scalable performance at your organization? Brandon Carson, Director of Learning at Delta Air Lines and author of Learning in the Age of Immediacy shares best practices on how L&D is adopting new digital technologies to transform the learning function and drive performance at…
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The Leadership Development Dilemma
Despite enjoying one of the most highly-educated workforces in history, today’s organizations are struggling with a common challenge: how do we develop the leaders of tomorrow? When only 14 percent of current CEOs believe they have the talent necessary to execute their business strategies, it’s clear the problem is widespread. And this begs the obvious question: What does the leader of the future look like? And, more pointedly, why are organizations having such a difficult time developing them? Join Chief…
Find out more »July 2019
Upgrading Your Professional Development Plans For Today’s Global Employee
It’s time for an upgrade! Your professional development plans for global employees need to reflect today’s learning preferences. Today’s employees are eager to learn skills that can propel their careers as global professionals. From conducting business with overseas clients, basic knowledge exchange and effective communication across departments, to dreaming of a promotion abroad, the modern learner is hungry to develop and sharpen the necessary skills. As an HR professional, you’re undoubtedly thinking about how you can sharpen your benefits and…
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Modernizing Leadership for a digital Economy
Many organizations face an environment disrupted by rapid market change, a proliferation of digital technology and changing workforce expectations. As the business context changes, leadership development has been changing with it. Innovation doesn’t happen without some digital context, which will require new skills for executives, managers and others. What leadership competencies are being prioritized to meet the changing digital context? Is leadership development being pushed down through the enterprise to line-level employees? What technologies are used to deploy leadership development…
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Empower Your Employees with Modern Learning, Communication and Performance Tools for Success
Join this informative session to hear how Debra Kellogg, manager of education, performance, and communications at Toshiba, built a next-generation employee portalfor a global audience. Combining their LMS with modern e-learning courses, Kellogg developed the Toshiba Academy, the Toshiba Connect Communication Portal, and the company’s conversation-driven performance program, IGNITE!. You’ll learn how a very lean L&D team deployed these in the United States and Latin America in less than a year, along with tips on providing your learners with tools…
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What your employees need to learn to work with data in the 21st century
The data revolution is well underway. Regardless of the industry or department you work in, working with data will soon be an essential part of your job, if it isn’t already. This could take the form of basic data analytics, data science, machine learning or artificial intelligence. This can be overwhelming: what do all these terms means and how can they be leveraged to impact your daily work, whether that be in finance, healthcare, tech or the public sector, among…
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How do you Identify a Good Manager?
We’ve all heard that “employees don’t quit jobs, they quit their managers.” In fact, a lot of us have probably done exactly that. There are plenty of opportunities out there, especially for high performers, so most people won’t stick it out with someone they don’t much care for. That begs the question: why do so many companies still have so many lousy managers? It comes down to two important things: we don’t value the right traits when we look for…
Find out more »August 2019
Address the Skills Gap with Micro-Credentialing
Using Open Badges to provide micro-credentials is a great way to track upskilling and career pathing for learners within organizations. This session will cover how micro-credentialing supports ongoing professional development and personalized learning pathways as it pertains to accomplishments and skills. By attending this session, you will: Explore the open badge framework and how it can track progress to act as a workplace currency Analyze why most organizations that try badging don't succeed in their goals Learn how badges help…
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CLO Survey: Defining & Mapping Effective High-Stakes Learning
We asked 400 CLOs and over 1000 learners what they think the state of their organization’s learning culture is and where they hope it is going. Join us for an intriguing and somewhat disconcerting summary of your peers’ perspective as we dissect the key findings and its implications for L&D approaches moving forward. Additionally, we’ll provide some clarity around what an effective Collaborative Learning solution functionally is and how the benefits transcend common barriers to adoption. This webinar will: •…
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“Grow Your Own” – Tackling Medical Assistant and Healthcare Talent Shortages
Healthcare organizations across the country are struggling to fill open positions. The gap between supply and demand has reached critical levels and new strategies are required to ensure your workforce remains optimally staffed. To make headway, the industry needs to consider innovative education and recruitment models for healthcare professionals. During this session, we will explore current hiring and talent trends related to medical assistants on both regional and national levels. Presenters will share common mistakes and best practices to overcome…
Find out more »September 2019
Driving Strategy: How to Avoid the Top Three Mistakes
Whether you are creating and leading strategy for your organization or have a role in driving adoption of a strategy there are three, easily avoidable mistakes that many organizations and leaders make: (1) not being clear on intent, (2) not understanding if all leaders are on-board with the strategy, and (3) not predicting and mitigating failure points. In this webinar, Erica Tetuan, Change Management Practice Lead, will explore: • A formula to ensure the intent is clear and you know…
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Moving Beyond Employee Engagement: The Employee Experience Index
Employee engagement is often viewed as the proxy for employee well-being. The line of thinking is that if engagement is good, that means employees are good, resulting in better business outcomes for employers. But, is employee engagement the best construct that employers should use to positively impact productivity and performance? New research suggests while engagement is important, it’s only one piece of the broader picture—the entire employee experience. In reality, people want to work for a company that enables them…
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