Learning Rebels Podcast

Inspiring Self-Directed Learning

It all starts with a question: How can we inspire people to take ownership of their own professional development?
 
According to Malcolm Knowles, self-directed learning “describes a process by which individuals take the initiative, with or without the assistance of others, in diagnosing their learning needs, formulating learning goals, identifying human and material resources for learning, and evaluating learning outcomes.”
 
In Learning and Develop the case becomes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink”.
 
However, you can add sugar to the water to make it tastier.
 
Meaning we can do things on our end to encourage and support those who want to dive in and begin the process of taking ownership of deepening the level of their knowledge.
 
So what can we do to encourage people to take more ownership? This is what we discussed today.
 
Together can we build a map to help people out?
To show where and how to start?
To help them link concepts together?
To learn how to learn?
 
 
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Resources:
Download these!
Self-Directed White Paper by SparkLearn
Self-Directed Learning a Cognitive Perspective: Research Paper
 
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The Secret Sauce Behind Successful Sales Training

It all starts with a question: How can we make training more effective for sales teams?
 
According to the Marketing Research Organization, ES Research, “between 85% and 90% of sales training has no lasting impact after 120 days. At the same time, companies are spending billions of dollars on sales training each year. That’s billions of dollars wasted on training that disappoints and only produces short-term boosts in sales”.
 
There’s nothing Sales Leaders hate more than wasted time and wasted money. So how can we move the needle on Sales Enablement?
 
It all starts with the mentality of “No fluff, no extra stuff!”
 
From there we must get creative to build energy, and be smart so that we aren’t creating disruption and frustration.
 
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Resources:
Read: The five things sales-growth winners do to invest in their people
Read this Report: The Difference Between Good and Bad Sales Training
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Sticky Learning: Creating Sustainable Learning After the Fact

Sticky Learning: Creating Sustainable Learning After the Fact
 
It starts with a question: What can we do to help learning stick?
 
We know that people are working at speeds not seen prior to the COVID19 pandemic. The way business operates has changed, therefore the way we work within businesses has changed. Ultimately this means in order to help learning gain traction means changing how we view developing and implementing training to include reinforcement learning after the fact.
 
But where do we start? Fortunately, the community had A LOT of thoughts.
 
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Learning Rebels in 15: Exercises for Boosting Creativity

 
Our second Learning Rebels in 15 has landed! 
 
There are many ways to boost your creativity, and some of them might surprise you! This conversation may even have you rethinking your definition of creativity as a whole. 
 
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Stay curious & take over the world!
Shannon
 
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Providing Business Value, the Key to L&D Success

For Laura Overton, it all started with a question: When you talk about the value L&D is providing to your organization, what narrative of success do you use?
 
Laura’s research found that L&D professionals focusing on business value were better positioned to harness learning innovation to deliver business results. Click here to view the Learning Value Spectrum chart.
 
On one end we have Learning Value: "Our connection with and activity around our programs: hours, engagement, and efficiency."On the other end, we have Business Value: "Where our #1 focus is on the outputs that are important to our organization."
 
At a time when L&D has the opportunity to connect with business leaders with the skills agenda being one of the highest priority needs for business today, who can leaders depend on?
 
Hopefully us. 
 
Read more about the Learning Value Spectrum here:
 
I encourage you to download the chat. So many supportive comments and action ideas.  
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The Good, the Bad and the Potential of a Career in L&D

The Good, the Bad and the Potential of L&D
 
It was very interesting getting the Coffee Chat view on how L&D can leverage their superpowers of collaboration and ideation to build fresh solutions to strengthen skill building. 
 
Wonder Twin Powers ACTIVATE!! 
 
Today’s question on the table was all about “How can L&D harness our momentum with businesses today, to add greater business value?”
 
L&D is seeing a transformation like nothing in the past! Learning Professionals are busting through traditional silos to collaborate on more holistic visions to create stronger connections between learning and business goals.
 
The LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report shared that L&D leaders agree that L&D has become more influential over the past year. This also means that the demand is greater for results.
 
From ideas about activating management to how to change our vocabulary, there were many solid, actionable steps we can take TODAY to improve our relationship with business leaders. 
 
Get the LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report here
 
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Books: 
 
The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper
 
The Learning and Development Handbook: A Learning Practitioner's Toolkit by Michelle Parry-Slater
 
Design Thinking for Training and Development by Sharon Boller
 
Lynch Pin: Are you Indispensable by Seth Godwin 
 
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Learning from Failure

How can we best treat failure as a positive aspect of life, rather a negative?
This was the question on the table as we discussed learning from failure.
This was an interesting chat – there were many directions to take, as people process failure in a variety of different ways. Some people go internal, and dig deep into themselves to consider what may have gone wrong that they can control, while others process failure as a data collection exercise.
Where do you fall on the continuum?
Two takeaways:
From Dickson – Sometimes we turn the “why not’ question into a way to find out “why NOT”. However, Dickson tells us that the adventure begins with why not. Sometimes “why not” is scary, and can most certainly be intimidating – but is take was treating “Why Not” as the beginning of a journey, and when doing so, you find some of the most remarkable things. So put your fear of failure to the side and treat it as an exercise in “why not”. 
From JD - "Be Kind to Yourself" Being self-aware that failure happens – EMBRACE the SUCK! Time tempers failure, be kind and realize that things happen. Surround yourself with positive people and environments. Failure is not the end-all be-all it’s part of the continuum of live. Stop putting pressure from yourself.
 
Let’s remember that failure is only bad if we treat it as something bad. Reframing how we think about failure will take our mental health to a place that is more managable. It’s not necessarily failure, but simply making a mistake and moving on.
 
Stay Curious! Shannon
 
All the Coffee Chat Resources! 
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Check these out!
HBR: Strategies for learning from failure
Ball State University: Learning from Failure Research Paper
 
All the Books!
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success by John Maxwell
Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success by Ryan Leak
 
 
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Evaluating Impact

The importance of evaluating training impact is something we can all agree on. But it's not something we all do. The reasons are varied:
The business doesn't give me time
I don't have access to important data
The expectation is "butts in seats"
The hard truth is that, when planning learning initiatives for your business, there is an expectation for something to happen. The business expects the people participating in the training to have gained improved skills, demonstrate behavior change, and ultimately to place into action the lessons delivered.
To begin with the end in mind – it's important to think about conducting a skill gap analysis for the future of work
Then couple it with information to evaluate training success – start here with a tool created by Michelle Ockers of the Emerging Stronger team: https://bit.ly/ESImpactTool
Our conversation took us in many directions – The importance of talking the language of business versus learning. Understanding what the business goals are before putting a training plan in place. We also discussed tools we can use to help us along the way. Tools like:
Survey’s
Work observation
Focus groups
Pre/post 360 surveys
Measuring pre/post KPI’s
We hope you can take one idea to apply Kirkpatricks level 3 & 4 and stop using “butt’s in seats” as your success metric. Because let’s face it, just because you like a class doesn’t mean you’ve learned from it –the same applies, and especially applies to workplace learning.
 
Take your knowledge to the next level:
Read these!
Assessing Impact: Evaluating Professional Learning by Joellen Killian
Evaluating the Impact of Training by Scott Parry
Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels by Donald Kirkpatrick
Training for Impact: How to Link Training to Business Needs and Measure the Results by Dana Gaines Robinson
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