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The Learning and Performance Post-Pandemic Abyss: How Shall We Recover?
I am more than excited to see the challenges learning and performance (L&P) practitioners face these days and the innovative solutions they propose. Perusing the Learning Ideas Conference 2023 sessions, I see topics like Socially Enabled Intelligent Chatbots, Inclusiveness, Responsible Design, and even The Cringeworthy in Online Learning. They evoke memories of difficult projects that reaped rewards and/or caused profound despair, but always informed us of the many trajectories in which L&P is heading. I would love to think that such endeavors are systematically addressed with tried-and-true methods, toward unequivocally successful outcomes. I also dream of whiskey springs and comfortable airline economy seats that smell like root beer. The grand L&P experiment is, in reality, more trial-and-error than not.
Awesome Hybrid Training
So, you are presenting at The Learning Ideas Conference. Great! The people attending your presentation will be both in-person and remote. This is the new definition of Hybrid Training. There are plenty of online presentations that will help you make the greatest impact on the attendees. I've attended many of these presentations. Below are some best practices I've found that you can apply to your presentation so both types of attendees are engaged and feel included. And check out my challenge to you at the end.
Reflections on TLIC 2022
When I returned home after three days of learning, sharing, and collaborating with global leaders in the learning and performance space, I was asked if I could summarize the experience in one word. It’s this: Charged! It captures the affect, which consolidated a long list of emotions I felt during the conference, including excitement, passion, creativity, and perhaps the most ever-present feeling that still resonates is relief!
Learning Maturity Models
How do you rate your learning organization? Great? Eight out of ten? Purple? We each have an idea of how good of a job we're doing fulfilling the needs of our learners. We can report this value to our leadership and clients. But how do we compare to other organizations? There are learning maturity models we can use to compare apples to apples, so to speak. Maturity models also give the L&D team members a tangible goal to work toward.
Affectivism and Predictive Analytics at the Learning and Performance Crossroads
A basic tenet of learning and performance (L&P) is that it subsumes the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. The most mature of the three in modeling human behavior have traditionally been behavioral science and cognitive science. In the July 2021 issue of Nature Human Behaviour (VOL 5 | JULY 2021 | 816–820 | www.nature.com/nathumbehav), authors of “The Rise Of Affectivism” ponder “…whether we have moved beyond the eras of behaviourism and cognitivism, into the era of affectivism.”
Toward a Learning and Performance Science
Have you heard the buzzwords around big data? You know, digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), scalability, low-code/no-code solutions, predictive analytics, shift-left, contextualization, and so many more. An expert recently published a list of 101 terms that data analysts should know.
Unlocking Creativity
Experienced HR leaders and learning experts discuss how the business of education and training can help learners tap their creative potential, why a snapback to pre-pandemic teaching approaches is a no-go, and why the future of learning is interactive.
How are Corporate and Education Learning and Development the Same?
L&D will never be the same. The last year has redefined training. Corporate and Education training both moved online. Our experiences with the move differed. We can learn from each other and make our jobs easier by having a mutually beneficial relationship.
Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Pandemic
The good news is that we appear to be nearing the end of the pandemic at least in some parts of the world. There is clearly much more to be done to make vaccines available to everyone, but in some countries the transition to post-pandemic life has begun and abandoned masks, those items that were precious just months ago, are beginning to appear in the streets.