This is one of the (several) reasons I believe a gap continues to exist between the learning experiences outside and inside workplaces... Most internal learning teams are made up of the following folk; people with an education / instructional design background, subject matter experts, and administrators. However, if you go behind the scenes of the teams creating compelling, engaging, exciting, learning experiences outside of work and you’ll find a rather different, and more varied group of professionals. This PDF that contains eight skillsets that most internal learning teams should consider in their team makeup. It also gives a few ideas on how to buy, borrow, or build these skills. If you’re building (or rebuilding) a learning team, or wondering what’s not quite hitting the mark in your internal learning offering, this will provide some (possibly provocative?) food for thought. It’s attached to this post, but if that’s not very readable, you can download a fresh copy from 28thursdays .com/articles. (You don’t need to put your email address in to download it). [Caveat: It hopefully goes without saying that this is a collection of ‘technical’ skills. These sit alongside the baseline human skills any professional needs to work well with other people, the ability to consult with stakeholders, and the mindset and practice of being a learner.] #learning #work #learninganddevelopment
Great post Steph, strongly ties to my journey. In a mix of unintentional & intentional events, time-sinks & shortcuts, I built this skill-set to a high level of competency. It's absolutely learnable. Focused, I did most of it in 5 years... In fact, you can do it in the job you're in already, but it requires building another skill first: An intrapreneurial mindset. Key attitudes & behaviours to focus on: ? a peak level of self-reliance to learn anything to get the job done ? a blind-spot barometer to find your gaps & self-limiting beliefs ? an opportunity radar to target specific projects with valuable skills & knowledge you want to acquire ? a multi-disciplinary design attitude for finding solutions outside your domain ? a network building bias to strategically bridge relationships before they’re needed ? a thick-skin to survive the ruffling of feathers you will cause ? an ability to say YES to outcomes you want without knowing how to get here yet. ? a willingness to spend time you don’t have to make prototype solutions that are difficult for stakeholders to say no to. Then: use every learning project, admin task, monthly report, conversation, social post here on LinkedIn as a way to build those skills.
Yay Service Design!!!
Finally! Community building lands on the list of L&D skills for impact! ??
Spot on Steph when you say 'you have 85% of your video tech already in your pocket'. Every few months add another 1% to that figure. There are so many video and audio problems being solved by extra computing power now. Don't spend money on cameras and lights, spend it on getting more RAM and processing power on your devices
I started my career in marketing/sales. I find both skills very useful for thinking about how a course will help the audience do their job better, faster, or easier. Facilitation experience comes in handy for the same reasons but with the facilitation team in mind.
Sounds interesting Steph. Nick Spiker - maybe one for our dream team to check out ??
Uplifting capabilities, ideas and moods with every post... love your work, Steph.
Oh my gosh! Im so glad your post has come up in my feed! Your website is amazing and now one of my favourite places!
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