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Corporate Digital Learning
Julia Kornacker
27. Mars 2016 22:59 heures
Chapitre 3 › Unit 4: Technical and Other Implications:
Creating a Culture of Learning for Martina
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Creating a Culture of Learning for Martina
Imagine Martina from Unit 3 again. She is working 40 hours a week and on top of that, needs to learn about managing and leading a team in an online training class.
So now Martina is trying to integrate her learning and training into her work. However, she feels uncomfortable reading a text or watching a video as part of her online training in front of her team at work. In the end, she decides to learn at home in her free time, making her more stressed than before.
Help Martina create a learning culture in her team or office!
For example: She could create a corner in the office with a flag on it, when it is learning time, every Friday afternoon for 2 hours. She could block her calendar, creating deadlines for herself to finish the tasks, have open conversations with her staff members about her learning experiences etc.
How can you support her?
There are quite a few ideas you can develop after having read all the implications that a corporate digital strategy involves in the main and the additional material.
Do you need more inspiration for the task? Then have a look at the following links and articles:
Put yourself in the shoes of the learner: This nicely written article in the Washington Post illustrates the power of spending two days as a learner and experiencing their everyday lives.
How much time do you spend on learning a week? This short article by Jane Hart includes a poll about how many hours people spend on learning. She also wrote about 5 steps towards Modern Workplace Learning. It is important is to see the change, be the change and support the change.
Or maybe you get some inspiration by a rather controversial article and push for employees to learn in their free time? Quentin Hardy wrote in the NY Times about how AT&T "Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else".
Find some images that visualize how you can help Martina and how Martina can create a culture of learning. Upload these images as part of your journal entry and your ideas so that we can collect them at the end and create a collage.
Creating a Culture of Learning for Martina
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In order to support Martina build a fuitful learning culture, the following measures are helpful:
- Talk openly to the team about Martina's learning targets. Explain to the team that the successful achievement of these goals is to the benefit of the entire team
- Integrate Martina's training in her working time and break down the different targets in small workable units with direct application in practice (e.g. in a jour fixe, workshop, conversation with employee)
- Encourage the entire team to reserve some time (1-2 hours / per week) for training --> Martina can use her role as team lead to determine development goals with each team member and talk about suitable on-the-job-training with each employee
- Martina can start writing a "learning diary" on a weekly basis with her weekly learning targets & achievements
- Martina can relate to other team leads and talk about their learning experiences. This can be a starting point to establish learning on the job on a corporate level beyond her own team
The "learning diary" is a nice idea. Maybe her team could also start their own diaries to create a joint learning experience?