Modern Learning Leaders Archives - Learning Cluster Design

[Dialogue Recap] Learning from Modern Learning Success Stories w/ the full community

Highlights: at :15 - Emma Strong shares the first full Learning Cluster launched at Veritext, with over 450 out of 1100 employees receiving the certificate badge by end of year, regardless of which asset they took at 11:25 - Karyssa Dittman from Zendesk shares the success of gaining influence and being invited to share about the LCD model to her leadership team at 13:00 - The community shares key terminology that has helped created buy-in to the model such as the phrases on-the-job change, preventing one-offs or not one and done, surrounding learners, learning assets at 19:56 - Aubrey Giammarco, Sales [...]

[Dialogue Recap] Learning from Modern Learning Success Stories w/ the full communityStaff2023-02-28T01:18:20-05:00

[Dialogue Recap] Inclusive Learner Personas w/ Lori McDaniel and Jen Hurley

Highlights: at 4:56 - A reminder: what is DEI and especially equity and how does that relate to learning design at 5:52 - Permission-giving to make mistakes and acknowledge those we’ve made in the past at 10:19 - Introducing the Social Identity Wheel as a way to think through learning and performance barriers when using the Learn Learner-to-Learner Differences Tool in the LCD Model at 31:16 - Ways Learner Personas and including the diversity of your audience shows up in ALL five Actions of the LCD Model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abi2PcqlJvA&feature=youtu.be

[Dialogue Recap] Inclusive Learner Personas w/ Lori McDaniel and Jen HurleyStaff2023-03-03T21:38:49-05:00

Dialogue Recap: Dave Sayers and Changing Stakeholder Expectations

Do you often wonder how L&D can have a seat at the table? Do you wonder how to create different expectations for your stakeholders as you evolve from one and done to modern learning clusters? During our October Modern Learning Monthly Dialogue, we heard from Dave Sayers, L&D leader at Cortland and LCD Practicum alumni. Dave leads a ~10 member L&D team at a fast growing, values-driven organization. He begins by sharing about going from drive by requests to being invited to design a strategy upfront, well before a change hits. What's a drive by request? It's when a department drops by on a Friday and asks [...]

Dialogue Recap: Dave Sayers and Changing Stakeholder ExpectationsStaff2023-02-28T01:45:58-05:00

[Sept Dialogue Recap] Motivating Change When Stakeholders Say the Org is “Good Enough” As Is

A few weeks ago, we had a great Modern Learning Monthly Dialogue where we talked about how to break through a very particular resistance to change: being “too successful”. Many times, our stakeholders can hold the mentality that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and that gets in the way of evolutions we want to make to learning. Especially when trying to introduce modern learning approaches, we can get stuck by the expectation that all learning is training. People know us for what we’ve always done and might not see a reason for us to do something new, especially if [...]

[Sept Dialogue Recap] Motivating Change When Stakeholders Say the Org is “Good Enough” As IsStaff2023-02-28T03:11:19-05:00

56 Change Management Initiatives and the LCD Model

David Sayers, like many of you, works in a rapidly growing business. Cortland is a property management company that has grown from 20,000 to 78,000 units in the last few years! What does that mean as the L&D leader? Dave and his team needed to keep up with building capability for all the new teams that run the properties. Dave takes on the challenge through modern learning approaches and in the past year has discovered the LCD model. He is turning to the model as his core approach to manage change. And oh by the way, Dave and his team won [...]

56 Change Management Initiatives and the LCD ModelStaff2023-03-01T05:54:39-05:00

LCD in Action: Professional Association ESG & Finance Examples

This month, we had the pleasure of not just one, but three leaders from the Association of International Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) share their incredible work on the LCD model. Michael Grant, Director of Learning Innovation, Jennier Hackim, Director of Learning Design, and Lizza Igoe, Senior Manager of Learning Design, discussed the journey since investing in the LCD practicum and the new possibilities for the organization. The AICPA is a global professional association for accounting professionals with 700,000 members. Over the past two years, this organization has undergone tremendous change. And, as truly successful organizations do, rather than just make one change, they’ve [...]

LCD in Action: Professional Association ESG & Finance ExamplesStaff2023-02-28T01:57:14-05:00

Dialogue Replay: Lavinia Mehedintu and the Evolution of Curation

At our July Modern Learning Monthly Dialogue, we had the pleasure of hosting Lavinia Mehedintu, founder of the L&D magazine Offbeat.Works, to engage us in a discussion on Curation. Curation is a topic that initially sounds simple - what came to mind for me are the frequent “listicles” we often see - but the more you dig into it, the more you find a complex topic for learning creators. Just like LCD's idea of designing and delivering multiple learning assets, or learning clusters, what sounds simple isn’t as easy in practice and comes with a lot of nuances. Lavinia is the queen of modern curation [...]

Dialogue Replay: Lavinia Mehedintu and the Evolution of CurationStaff2023-02-28T06:24:39-05:00

Owning your Modern Learning Career

Inspiring. Encouraging. Insightful. These are just some of the words that come to mind as I reflect back on my conversation with Andy Storch from this year’s ATD International Conference & Exposition in Orlando. Author of the book Own Your Career, Own Your Life and Founder of the Talent Development Think Tank, Andy is on a mission to help others find happiness and fulfillment in their own careers, gleaning from the lessons he learned personally while finding this out for himself. This is important because I work with leaders and individuals all the time, all over the world who are trying [...]

Owning your Modern Learning CareerStaff2023-02-28T06:28:19-05:00

Moving L&D To Strategic Partner Status

Hi LCD Community - Are you stuck on a hamster wheel of L&D requests - running continuously without a moment to stop and work strategically? The answer is to tap into concepts and expertise that already exists within organizational development (OD), without abandoning your learning and development roots. Over the past few months, I have been collaborating on a framework with Jess Almlie to build a figurative bridge between the professions. 1 | The Foundation: When L&D and OD investigate and agree on a common core purpose for an initiative, we can then ground our work in a common anchor and goal. 2 | Bridge Floor: The [...]

Moving L&D To Strategic Partner StatusStaff2023-03-01T01:50:18-05:00

LCD at ATD22 – Driving Change and Modernizing the Experience

Hi, LCD Community - Wow, what an amazing week at #atd22! I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to meet with so many of you in person. For those of you who were unable to attend live, I missed you but hope to catch up with you live soon. Being immersed in the conference gave me a snapshot of how much evolution leaders are driving more broadly. The level of strategy, modern thinking, and progress that you are making in the L&D space is inspirational! I am so grateful that Learning Cluster Design Group is a part of your [...]

LCD at ATD22 – Driving Change and Modernizing the ExperienceStaff2023-03-01T02:20:20-05:00

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