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Workflow Learning More Just-In-Time, Less Just-In-Case DevLearn 2021

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Matt Donovan Chief Learning and Innovation Officer at GP Strategies Mike Taylor Learning Consultant at Nationwide

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What brings you to this session? POLL/DISCUSSION QUESTION

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Agenda What is Workflow Learning? Why should we care? Workflow Learning in Action Success factors & next steps

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What is Workflow Learning?

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How do you define Workflow Learning? DISCUSSION

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Not a New Idea “Increasingly software will be task focused. Support for both task performance and learning will become an integral part of the technological environment” – Gloria Geary (1995)

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Ecosystem “workflow learning is how workers improve performance in a business ecosystem.” – Jay Cross 2004

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Performance Support “Workflow learning is embedding learning and support in the workflow to be accessed while doing the work.” – Mosher & Gottfredson

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Continuous Learning “workflow learning reflects a focus on continuous learning” – Josh Bersin

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Convergence vs. Divergence “Learning I need at the point of performance.” – Matt Donovan (Just now)

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Yes, but what IS it? Information Instruction Learning

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Shifting Focus FROM Formal learning Top-down approach Learning approach Knowledge focus TOWARDS Informal learning Bottom-up approach Performance Support Skill focus

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18 NEW ROLES for the Connected Learning Organization MOMENTS OF LEARNING NEED 1. Learn-first time 2. Learn-more 3. Apply/Refine 4. Adjust to change 5. React to Failure EXPANDED LEARNER ROLES CONNECTED ORGANIZATION LEARNING ROLES 1. Learning Connectors 2. Learning Bridgers 3. Specialists for Coaching and Mentoring 4. Information Brokers 1. Consumer 2. Moderator 3. Curator 4. Contributor 5. Creator 6. Collaborator Inspiration from: Rob Cross’ Work on Collaboration Reference: “5 moments of Learning Need” Gottfredson & Mosher EMERGING MOMENTS • Innovate • Grow for Next Role

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Why should we care?

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Average shelf life of a business competency since 1984 in years 30 > 5 90% of Fortune 500 list in 1955 are gone Average lifespan of S&P 500 companies dropped since 1920 67>20 50% in the next 10 years, of all S&P 500 companies will disappear from the list Need for Learning Agility Exponential Organizations | http://bit.ly/expoorg

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The pandemic has dramatically increased the pace of change. A McKinsey survey showed that the pandemic had accelerated the overall adoption of digital technologies by three to seven years in just a few months. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-covid-19-has-pushed-companies-over-the-technology-tipping-point-and-transformed-business-forever

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Course-based learning performance degrades rapidly over time. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924649

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Lack of time for training LinkedIn Learning’s 2018 Workplace Learning Report Average is 1% or 24 minutes/week

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Learners want to learn at their own pace. 94% per Towards Maturity 2019

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Many prefer to learn at the moment of need 94% per LinkedIn Learning’s 2018 Workplace Learning Report

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What do people do when they hit a roadblock in a task at work?

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“I ask the person beside me for the answer.” https://blog.fuseuniversal.com/5-things-you-need-consider-to-build-a-really-useful-learning-culture

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Fewer than half of respondents said their systems facilitate the sharing of learning with one another. https://blog.fuseuniversal.com/5-things-you-need-consider-to-build-a-really-useful-learning-culture

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“Workflow Learning is the democratization of learning.” – Mike Taylor (Just now)

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Putting the ‘flow’ in Workflow Learning

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Work + Flow

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Courses and other traditional approaches don’t cut it anymore.

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STOCK vs. FLOW COURSES Dated quickly Closed/Isolated Slow Inflexible Expensive WORKFLOW Dynamic Connected Quick/Agile Flexible “Free-ish”*

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Creation Knowledge Stocks How do these get refreshed? As the pace of change accelerates, the value of any stock of knowledge depreciates faster.

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Creation CONSUMPTION Publish Push vs. Pull

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Creation CONSUMPTION Publish Push vs. Pull

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CONVERSATION Creation CONSUMPTION Publish + external Knowledge + co-creation + Curation + TACIT Knowledge

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CONVERSATION Creation CONSUMPTION Publish + external info +co-creation + Curation Knowledge Flow continually refresh our knowledge by participating in relevant flows

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“We can’t participate effectively in flows of knowledge–at least not for long–without contributing knowledge of our own.” Harold Jarche

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#LTUK19 @tmiket

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How well does your knowledge travel? IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION FOR EVERYONE!

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What does it look like?

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Technology Human Network Individual Workflow Learning Components

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People MUST take accountability!

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How many L&D technologies are used in your organization?

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Think ‘Learning Ecosystem’ https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/human-capital/us-human-capital-bersin-lt-litfow-embed-learning_05-2019.pdf

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redthreadresearch.com @redthreadre

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redthreadresearch.com/learninglandscapetool Interactive Learning Technology Landscape Tool

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It Starts With You

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Teamwork Happens Here High Velocity

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Company-Wide Visibility Conversations & Discovery across the org Working Out Loud

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Outside The Company Walls gateway in and out of org Important to learn from outside

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Microsoft Cortana & Viva

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What Do You Think? If you think about the core, the inner, the outer, and the open loop, what other tools do your employees use that you can leverage for learning?

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Goals Structure People Characteristics of a Learning Organization Create continuous learning opptys Promote inquiry & dialog Encourage collaboration & team learning Empower people toward shared vision Promote inquiry & dialog Establish systems to capture & share learning Provide strategic leadership for learning ↑ Organizational Knowledge ↑ Organizational Performance Adapted from Watkins & Marsick | Sculpting the Learning Organization

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Getting Started Meet with your team/audience Inventory the tools/apps everyone is already using Seek out how you can connect existing tools to augment and automate them Look for ways to enable the flow of knowledge/info Promote learning in the flow of work!

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59 A traditional approach 1. Comprehensive WBT at launch 2. Job aids 3. User manual EXAMPLE: Expense reimbursement system rollout 16

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Example: Expense reimbursement system rollout 60 60 Moment of Learning Need Trigger Design Consideration Learn something for the first time System rollout 1. Light system overview 2. Performance demos of common expense reports 3. Where to get help for other moments Learn/do more of something 60-90 days First expense report 1. Pulse out tips and best practices from peers 2. Pulse out additional demos Apply and refine First expense report 1. Job aids easily accessible from system 2. Searchable set of tips and best practices 3. Peer network/wiki for sharing application and refinement practices 17

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Example: Expense reimbursement system rollout 61 61 Moment of Learning Need Trigger Design Consideration Adjust to change New code for an activity Need to find a specific code 1. Job aids easily accessible from system 2. Help desk support 3. Peer support network 4. Searchable set of tips/best practices provided by system owner and peer network React when something goes wrong Expense report is rejected 1. Searchable set of “What do I do when X happens?” 2. Help desk support 3. Peer support network 4. Searchable set of tips/best practices 18

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Apply 5 Moments of Need Moment of Learning Need Trigger Design Consideration Learn something for the first time Learn/do more of something Apply and refine Adjust to change React when something goes wrong

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– W. Edwards Demming It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.