Research and thoughts on designing learning that works from the team at Learning Plan. Presented by Peter Napier at the Webqem content breakfast in February 2018.
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8. “80% of L&D pros agree that developing
employees is top-of-mind for the executive
team.Yet L&D pros are challenged with
limited budgets, small teams, and a gap in
demonstrating return on investment (ROI).
To tackle these challenges L&D must
demonstrate business impact.”
- 2017 Workplace Learning Report, LinkedIn Learning
11. • Do the right things - define your impact and then work to it
• Define the need - Big picture first, details second
• Business Impact over ROI
• Continue to consult
22. Attribute ClassicalTraining Campaign Based
Temporality Event Driven Spaced
Focus Completion Business Outcomes
Communication Optional Inherent
Desirability Push Pull
Channels Single Multiple
Integration External toWork Integrated with Work
Delivery Expert Lead Varied
23.
24. Wrapping Up
• Impact not ROI
• Anytime, anywhere,
always
• Design for experiences
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Editor's Notes
This is relevant to both learners and organisations
Have you ever come out of a meeting with a set of notes that look like this?
What was your reaction?
Where do you start?
Just a small selection of design and process models to choose from
All useful
But with all this elevated thinking and research, how did we get here?
We really need to up our game.
75% of L&D people are embarrassed by what they do.
It’s up to everybody to up the quality of design.
Make things you’re proud of.
Connie Malamed @ AITD Conf:
Don’t just be order takers. Be problem solvers.
Cost of bad design is PARTICIPANTS time, not design costs.
It’s all well and good to say this
How to put it into action?
I’m going to suggest 5 things.
First…
EVERYBODY hands in the air.
Question for you…
Keep your hand up if you could explain your company’s strategy to your CEO?
Not your learning strategy, but your company strategy.
L&D has to build the key skills to deliver corporate strategy.
You have to know the strategy first to succeed.
Time to read…
There’s a big problem with recognition.
Most execs want us to develop people, but we feel under resourced.
We’re busy doing stuff, but is it the right stuff?
If it’s not what management cares about, then we get nowhere.
Bums on seats don’t always mean impact.
CEO’s just don’t see the impact of learning.
Over 80% want to see business impact, but only 8% see it.
Impact is more important that ROI.
What’s the ROI of the accounts department?
What’s the impact of the accounts department?
ROI is almost impossible to measure on a macro level.
Impact is visible by fulfilling corporate strategy.
Doing the stuff that matters.
Compared top 10% of organisations for learning performance vs. the rest.
92% of top orgs formally analyse at the start.
Only 53% of the rest do. What are the other 47% doing? Shooting in the dark??
Don’t decide the solution before you understand the problem.
What does success look like
If you don’t understand the problem, you can’t create the answer.
Analyse and align to strategy. Solve the right problems.
DON’T DO TNA – results in training! Really dig.
Ask questions. Use the 5 Whys?
Even when you’ve landed on your solution, you need to continue to consult throughout the whole process
1st tip is to align to corporate strategy.
Make sure you’re doing the right things. Impactful things.
Set the big picture, then look at the detail and only then think of tactics.
When you fulfil strategy you have impact.
Focus on impact and engagement over ROI
– more measurable and more desired by C-suite.
We need to think point of need – mobile first
It’s what people use first.
We need to design for it first.
We can’t carry on doing what we’ve been doing. It doesn’t work.
2010 McKinsey & Co. - 25% survey respondents found “training improved employees’ performance”
25%!!! Google Maps
As Bersin points out, we know that big events don’t work that well.
Big courses rarely work in corporate settings.
The 45 minutes I’m doing is too much – what about a whole day? Or two??
Evolution gives us an opportunity to change.
Set learning free again.
Source
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/disruption-digital-learning-ten-things-we-have-learned-josh-bersin
ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ALWAYS
Australia went mobile in 2014! Mobiles overtook desktop in sessions.
Smartphone most frequent device since Q4 2015
50.3% of all web pages served to mobile late 2016 (Statcounter via Hootsuite)
More people, more often, more pages on mobile.
Mobile matters!
We need to deliver learning when people want to engage.
Learning @ point of need - when it’s time to do the job. 2nd Screen.
Outside of working hours – they work in working hours!
Shelf life of skills down to 5 years, so people renew for career.
Minority at their desk. Needs to be un-tethered. – mobile at desk
Notifying boosts use and engagement.
Learning is a great use of travel time.
Be useful. Be where you’re needed, when you’re needed.
Think second-screen. Be mobile.
Actually doesn’t like smart phones because they’ve changed the way people discuss things
We have access to facts
No longer about saying what you believe to be true with as much weight as you can (read “hubris”)
Machine memory is cheap.
We look up details
Mobiles are everywhere.
How many of you use mobiles, even when sitting at desktop?
Ebbinghaus curve.
Finish learning, start forgetting.
Spaced repetition builds memory.
Cumulative effect of repetition.
Sometimes you actively want forgetting – updates to processes, details.
Design for forgetting – remember where to find, not the details
Mobile experiences are changing user’s expectations.
We have to provide better Learning Experiences.
People consuming own learning in systems like:
Lynda, YouTube, Udemy, Blinkist and Get Abstract.
Corporate learning environment has to meet their expectations.
Mobile means providing learning support @ the point of need.
Think about the second pillar of Digital innovation – learner experience
We use campaign based learning…
Campaign – organised actions to achieve a goal.
Explain diag.
Important: spaced, strategic, comms, pull, time of need
Samsung example:
S7 launch.
Focussed on helping people sell. Achieved by design.
News, training, feature sheets, training guides, etc. were all in single system.
Went on to do certification and games as different campaigns.
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