Does your organization struggle to find a balance between mandatory and elective training? Are you using the right resources and tools to make your program a success in the first place? The truth of the matter is that there are benefits to both mandatory and elective training, your job is to find the appropriate balance for your organization and ensure that you’re delivering it in a way that engages your employees and drives results.
In this webinar, Dean Pichee will discuss the challenges and benefits of both types of training and discuss how to find the balance you’ve been trying to achieve. He’ll go through the seven trends in employee training and how those impact your organization as well as what you can do about it. He’ll discuss how to use micro-learning and post-training reinforcement to achieve the maximum return on investment for your program and other tips and tricks to make employee training a success in your workplace.
Dean will cover pros and cons of both push and pull learning and provide actionable steps to add a little more “push” to your “pull” program or a little more “pull” to your “push” program.
He’ll provide real examples of what has worked for companies in the past and recommendations to help your organization succeed in the future.
Key Learning Objectives:
Current trends in employee training.
The benefits of mandatory and elective training.
Why micro-learning works.
The importance of post-training reinforcement.
Gamification techniques.
What’s the right mix of mandatory and elective training?
How to Turn Times of Change and Uncertainty into Positive Opportunities
Push or Pull: Making Training Work for Your Organization
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2. Presenting Today
Dean Pichee
President and CEO,
BizLibrary
dean@bizlibrary.com
Krista Brubaker
Marketing Coordinator
BizLibrary
kbrubaker@bizlibrary.com
Follow along on Twitter: #BizWebinar @BizLibrary
4. Trends in
Employee Training
- The Science of Learning
- The Importance of Learning Reinforcement
- Competency-Based Program Development
- Learning in The Cloud
- The Emergence of Video as the Dominant
Approach to Mobile Learning
- MicroLearning
13. Case Studies of Mandatory and Elective
Training Programs
Push Training Pull Training
Agriculture Professional Services Telecommunications Wholesale
16. Self-Directed Learning or “Pull”
- Learner makes decisions
- Learner selects and carries out goals,
objectives methods and means
- Works for formal or informal approaches
- Encourages self-recognition
17. Other-Directed Learning or “Push”
- Supervisors sending employees to
required compliance training
- Someone else sets goals and
evaluations
- Most recognized form of learning
- Generic to accommodate needs of most
learners
- Not everyone may need it
- Could include employee development
19. Benefits of Push Learning
Large number of employees learn at once
Accurate, up-to-date content
Quicker ramp up for employees
Can include a variety of training methods
conforming to adult learning principles
20. Benefits of Pull Learning
Less costly/more time efficient
More personal/less intimidating
SME can be more willing to share knowledge
Employees less resistant to learning
21. Low Learner
Completion
High Learner
Engagement
Long
Runway to
Success
High Leaner
Appreciation
Suited for
Just In Time
Learning
High Learner
Completion
Short
Runway to
Success
Low Learner
Appreciation
Suited for
Compliance
Training
Low Learner
Engagement
PUSH PULL
27. Bob Mosher Jane Hart Jay Cross Marcia Conner Roger Schank
The Experts Weigh In…
28. The Global Economy is Shifting
"At some point people, and by this I mean school boards, governments,
universities, and average citizens, have to get over the idea that there should
be any requirements at all in school."
- Roger Schank
29. The Case for Formal Training
- Reflect the real world
- Help employees know what
they need to know
- Help achieve company goals
30. Which statement best describes
your organization’s learning
strategy?
a) More Push Learning
b) More Pull Learning
c) 50/50 Balance Between Push
and Pull
31.
32. Adding Pull Strategies to Push Learning
Strategies
Adding Push Strategies to Pull Learning
Strategies