AECT: In the trenches - a look at market trends #AECT
1. A View from the Trenches:
Trends and Happenings in the Corporate
Learning Space
Cammy Bean, Senior Solutions Consultant
AECT 11-Wb 8:00-10:50 am
October 22, 2019
20. More than half (54
percent) of all employees
will require significant
reskilling and upskilling in
just three years.
World Economic Forum
90 percent of our
survey respondents told
us their organizations
are redesigning jobs.
Deloitte
Only one in ten organizations has all the skills it needs to be successful
IBM Survey (2012)
Those of us who work as a one-person eLearning shop have a bit of a challenge – somehow you need to represent all of these pie slices. If you can do that all really well – you’re some kind of superhero.
If not then you may be falling flat in some way OR you’re getting help from outside of your organization – getting the input of external experts to help you fill out those other pie pieces.
Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/creative_tools/4324925700/ CreativeTools.se - PackshotCreator - 3D print - ZPrinter - Super hero
Are the days of formal learning behind us?
According to a recent World Economic Forum report, evolving work demands and changing jobs are requiring reskilling and upskilling of more than half of all employees in just three years. (https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/human-capital-trends/2019/reskilling-upskilling-the-future-of-learning-and-development.html#endnote-3)
Our work methodologies are evolving too – look at change from "waterfall" to "agile" processes. These and many other shifts are leading to the need to integrate real-time learning and knowledge management into the workflow.
Virtual reality, augmented reality, chatbots, micro-learning, and other technologies are being used to make on-the-job learning happen.
But… the way people learn hasn’t changed! Good design is more important than ever – out clients just need to be reminded more often.
However, the digital danger zone describes an over-reliance on the latest tools to deliver results. Across the industry, nearly twice as many technologies are being used today compared with 2011 and L&D leaders expect this growth to continue.
Whilst the tools alone do not correlate to business impact, the tactics used to implement them most certainly do. High-performing learning organisations consistently exhibit digital confidence. L&D teams in such organisations are three times more likely than average to possess the right skills to exploit learning technologies for business advantage.
On average organisations are using 19
different learning technologies
Along with this, the definition of learning is broadening as we have more ways to capture and realize the benefits of learning through social channels, reading articles we found through a curated experience, taking part in communities of practice, etc.
And learning is becoming more personalized – individuals are being given more opportunities to learn in a way that works them.
Fueled new investment in our field over the past ten years, there is an ever growing list of learning technologies – many of them are purpose built for a single learning experience – mentoring, virtual roleplay, virtual classroom, software simulations, social, games, badges and credentials, etc…. The challenge is that without integrations and unifying front end, the risk of a horrible UX is very high. Thus the emergence of LXPs…
A Learning Experience Platform attempts to create a 'Netflix-like' learning environment, drawing in employees through targeted content, social media support, and intelligent recommendations.
Your LMS can sit behind an LXP so they’re not mutually exclusive.
According to the employers surveyed by City & Guilds Group, the main training currently carried out among contingent workers is on-the-job (28%). But when it comes to improving the take up of L&D amongst contingent workers, over a quarter (26%) of global employers believe that improved delivery platforms would help, followed by shorter, micro-style learning (25%) and better quality, more engaging content (25%). Contingent employees also want more opportunity to share feedback on the training and development they need – with a quarter (25%) saying they’d like to input into what’s available – which chimes with the employer view, as 24% say they think this would make these workers more likely to participate in learning.
https://cityandguildsgroup.shorthandstories.com/Learning-insights-2019-Contingent-Workforce/index.html
Customer education is a growing part of the mix.
Companies have realized that it’s a lot cheaper to grow an existing customer than find new ones. As a result, an entire new set of function – customer success – has emerged. And more often than not, training and education are a key tool in engaging and growing customer relationships.
In our Totara business 80% of our clients are focused on extended enterprise/customers…
“To the left of the curve, learning is typically considered in the context of programmes, interventions and campaigns, with L&D’s main role to be the producer. To the right of the curve, we see the ownership of learning shifting to individuals and managers, with L&D playing an active role in empowering and enabling change. “
“To the left of the curve, learning is typically considered in the context of programmes, interventions and campaigns, with L&D’s main role to be the producer. To the right of the curve, we see the ownership of learning shifting to individuals and managers, with L&D playing an active role in empowering and enabling change. “
Ashley:
Our clients’ roles are getting more complicated. They are being asked to evolve in their roles, becoming stronger partners in the business to ensure interventions drive performance.
The question is, how will we continue to evolve to support them and help them be heroes in their jobs?