So – I just returned home from the annual American Society of Training Development Conference – in Chicago. And I am beginning to take what I have learned and combine them into something greater – and easier for myself to reflect on later. My team also had a great strategy session before leaving for the conference – talking about what does our company look like in 6 months and in 5 years – and what are we doing now to prepare for it. Just by taking that day out – and focusing on our internal team, will bring a clearer view even soon.
My top learning points about Next Generation Training:
- Next Generation training – we don’t want to be just a free in-house resource
- make the business want and need you
- build scalable, global world-class solutions –
- how can we help them help their customers
- We as trainers, wear so many hats (consultant, coach, facilitator, elearning developer, instructional designer, technical writer, the list goes on) — we should probably get a hat rack!
- Be the Business readiness leaders – help the corporation prepare for what is ahead. NOT JUST IN THE CLASSROOM!
- Includes Change management
- Training – formal and informal learning
- Build a better report with helpdesk – to find REAL training needs
- find where users are having errors, and help them become more productive
- can use real metrics with this type of reporting
- Online, user to user, collaboration – learning real-time, from experts
- Don’t make me wait!
- JIT instead of JIC
- Enterprise 2.0 stragey – with or without social media
- Informal learning & Mobile learning
Great video – Need to share!
Did anyone else learn really great things that could apply back at the job? I think that’s the point of conferences…
We had a great time brainstorming on our train ride home – mostly about SoMe and how we could use small pieces of Social Media to integrate into what we already do… to think outside of the box with communication and getting end users to get it.
I am working on a publication now for my CIASTD friends – I am pretty excited about it. Funny thing is, what I start drafting, and how it actually turns out could be completely different.
Doing More 