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Training sessions can be boring if the focus is on content delivery only without the proper opportunity for practice. Although online environments might seem challenging, technology offers many solutions for online training practice in synchronous and asynchronous settings.
Training programs backed up by data instead of gut feelings are more accurate and deliver more value for businesses. Let’s see what L&D professionals can do to build a data-driven training strategy!
Although developed for manufacturing businesses, we believe the 5S Kaizen model can be also adapted for the Learning & Development industry, especially by companies that might benefit from a positive change.
According to the WEF, the way we work will be redefined by 2025. This is not surprising, giving the accelerated pace of the changes we are facing in our daily lives. Let’s see what major trends are shaping up the work landscape, and how technology will help us adapt, especially if we work in the L&D industry.
By making small changes in your habits and routine, you will get spectacular results in time, as these small changes or tweaks accumulate. In learning and development, marginal gains can work miracles. Let’s see some minor changes we can make if we want to become better learners!
Innovation is not something you can stop doing; it has to be an ongoing mindset. A silo mentality is not good for business. Let’s see what organizational silos are and how we can overcome them, break the barriers and boost innovation!
We should prepare for the next decade of innovation and for the major trends that it will bring. As L&D professionals, we should also prepare others for the coming changes. After all, this is what the learning and development industry is all about: constant learning and lifelong education.
Training and development have something in common with care work: the willingness to help others in an empathetic manner. This is why the ALOHA model might be a useful instrument for educators and trainers, especially in this context, when social distancing is the norm. ALOHA to all trainers and educators out there!
The Seneca effect is pervasive in many industries and it involves slow growth and rapid collapse. Business resilience is the proper way to deal with collapse effectively. In L&D, we are experiencing the collapse of the traditional model, so a fluid/flexible mindset is the best tool to build resilience in a changing environment.
We should understand the value of time and what it might bring us if we stop worrying about “wasting” it and start living our lives as explorers of knowledge, not as mere task managers. If procrastination can help us explore more and think more deeply about the things we have to do, then it’s a small price to pay.
