ATD NYC Q1 2018: This Is the Thought Leadership You Are MissingThe Association for Talent Development New York City (ATD NYC) Chapter is wrapping up an exciting first quarter.  As this year’s President, I wanted to share some insights and invite you to join us for our upcoming events. Here is the thought leadership you’ve missed so far.

 

 

January 2018

Program:  The World of Micro-learning Has Arrived: A New Era of Corporate Training

Location: Deloitte’s D Pub, 30 Rockefeller Center

Summary:

Mr. Bersin talked with us about how the corporate learning landscape has changed and gave us tips for reinventing our corporate training programs. He believes that corporate learning is well-positioned and the corporate training market is in the middle of an exciting transformation.

Takeaways:

  • The Reality of Learning Today: 24 Minutes a Week – the time employees have to focus on training and development.
  • Soft skills/social skills (“essential human skills”) are becoming more important especially in tech roles.
  • Jobs will become a series of experiences versus a list of titles/companies. “Build your own model.”
  • Career management will be important and internal mobility must be addressed.
  • “High-impact learning is about experiences”
  • How do we adapt? Four different environments today
    • Micro-learning: Videos, blogs, articles, micro-learning programs, curated feeds, on-demand, in the flow of work.
    • Skills Development: MOOCs, courseware, courses, simulations, assessments.
    • Corporate University: Events, innovation, sessions, leadership programs.
    • Coaching, Exposure, Experience: Coaching, development assignments, mentorship.
  • Learning Preferences have changed. Top priorities in 2017
    • Personalization/Adaptive Delivery (#2 in 2016)
    • Collaborative/Social Learning
    • Micro-learning (#5 in 2016)
    • Virtual, augmented reality
    • Mobile delivery (all new “digital” technologies)
    • Artificial Intelligence

 

In previous years, Mr. Bersin spoke to us his annual predictions. This year his predictions were released individually over the course of two weeks. The first prediction was released on the day of our event. While he didn’t explicitly talk about his predictions, he did incorporate some of them into his presentation.  To learn more about the Bersin Predictions for 2018, visit http://blog.bersin.com/.

Speaker: Josh Bersin

Speaker Bio:

Josh Bersin founded Bersin in 2001 to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning. He is responsible for Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP’s long term strategy and market eminence. Josh is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been quoted on talent management topics in key media, including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, on BBC Radio, CBS Radio and National Public Radio.

He is a popular blogger for Forbes.com and has been a columnist since 2007 for Chief Learning Officer magazine. Josh spent 25 years in product development, product management, marketing and sales of e-learning and other enterprise technologies at companies including DigitalThink (now Convergys), Arista Knowledge Systems, Sybase, and IBM.

Josh’s education includes a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

 

 

February 2018

Program:  Accelerating Priority Skill Development

Location: Avanade’s New York City Office

Summary:

Organizations of all types are realizing that cultivating a robust learning and development culture is key to sustained growth and profitability. To remain relevant in an increasingly digital world, we need to develop our people ecosystems through smart, innovative, learning and development initiatives and workforce planning programs.

Leveraging key insights and best practices from Avanade (a joint venture between Accenture & Microsoft), a global digital innovator, this event explored how to design and implement business aligned, cutting edge learning roadmaps to develop a 21st Century learning ecosystem in your organization focused on developing your company’s highest priority skills.

Avanade’s Learning & Development Strategy

  • Drive growth by rotating our training to support priority skills development.
  • Transition from a traditional school model to a targeted modular approach enabling a personalized training experience.
  • Establish a truly client centric digital learning culture that makes learning accessible anytime and anywhere.

There are thousands of skills people could focus on. Priority Skills are the ones that help people and business stay relevant. Avanade works with business leadership and uses its workforce planning tool to define priority skills. This is an ongoing, iterative process. They also work with employees to help them identify their skills and skill proficiencies. Priority skills help employees understand what skills will be needed to be successful going forward.  It’s a supply and demand relationship that allows employees to drive their development and careers.

Avanade uses Learning Boards. They are a digital solution that allows employees to learn on the go and stay up-to-date on favorite topics by accessing curated boards that are created by subject matter experts. They also use a cutting-edge micro-learning platform, Big Think, designed to provide bite-size chunks of skill development around self, people and project leadership for employees at all levels. Yammer and Microsoft Teams are also utilized.

Avanade is evolving the learning experience by diversifying learning tools and integrating learning into employee workflows to promote learning on the job, on demand, & on the go.

Speakers: Toni Handler and Gail Forkosh

Speaker Bios:

Antoinette (Toni) Handler’s expertise and leadership prowess in talent development runs deep. Currently, Toni leads Organizational and Leadership Development for Avanade. As Corporate Vice President, Global Human Resources, she drives organization transformation for over 31,000 professionals through training and development, leadership, talent and performance management and employee engagement. Prior to Avanade, Toni served as Vice President, Senior Human Resources Business Partner as Head of MetLife’s Global Sales Capability Center where she led benefits, investments and strategy, as well as brand, marketing and communications as part of MetLife’s first worldwide HR horizontal to build sales capability. She also advised Met Life’s CEO and Executive team in the definition and application of critical talent, learning and change management initiatives. Before that, Toni invested her expertise at both Merrill Lynch and Chase Manhattan Bank, holding various roles growing leadership and organizational programs and initiatives.

Toni holds a Masters of Arts from the State University of New York in business and policy studies, and a Bachelor of Science in management and industrial relations from New York University.

Gail Forkosh is the Global Head of Learning and Development at Avanade Inc., a global digital innovator providing business solutions leveraging the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem. A proven and effective leader recognized internationally for her visionary approach to measuring and developing talent, Gail brings twenty five years of broad-based experience in international business and finance to her position at Avanade. Gail joined Avanade in July 2015 with the responsibility of developing, and successfully implementing, the company’s global learning and professional development strategy. Prior to joining Avanade, she served in several strategic leadership roles for prominent U.S.-based companies, including serving as Global Head of Strategic Planning for Information Technology at AIG, a multinational insurance corporation with more than 88 million customers in 130 countries and approximately 65,000 employees.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Gail earned an MBA at Pace University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting and Economics from the Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU).

 

 

March 2018

Program: The Modernization of L&D

Location: WeWork Park Avenue South

Summary:

The Learning and Development (L&D) discipline is in the midst of a major transformation, perhaps the largest that it has ever faced. During this interactive session, Dan facilitated a discussion on the opportunities and challenges associated with the modernization of our Learning and Development (L&D) strategies, interventions, and skills.

He explored new insights in neuroscience, highlighted new emerging technologies, and focused on the need for many new partnerships. As the ever-increasing speed of change demands an increasingly agile approach and culture, he also led a debate on whether our L&D discipline is up to the challenge of transforming itself and the organizations that they serve.

After the meeting, Dan created a brief video (8:33) to summarize his presentation.

Speaker: Dan Lovely, former CLO of AIG and BNY Mellon

Speaker Bio:

Originally an Exploration Geologist, Dan Lovely has also held roles in Finance, Risk & Compliance, Strategic Planning, Talent Management, Learning & Development, and Diversity & Inclusion for firms such as BNY Mellon, BP Exploration, Pfizer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and AIG. He has been based in San Francisco CA, Anchorage AK, Houston TX, Aberdeen Scotland, London England, and now New York NY.

Most recently Dan was the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) for AIG, where he led the total transformation of AIG’s learning organization. This involves the alignment and consolidation of over 300 L&D staff in over 27 different organizations. He also modernized AIG’s approach to Learning & Development via the use of micro-learning, adaptive learning technologies and open-source content, while being guided by agile and design thinking principles.

 

 

About ATD NYC

If you would like to learn more about ATD NYC, visit us at atdnyc.org.  Keep in mind that we will be unveiling our new website on April 1st so there may be some differences in where information is located depending on when you access the site.

 

In addition to our monthly Chapter Events, members also have access to monthly Chapter Webinars, bi-monthly Special Interest Group (SIG) events (Career Development SIG, Coaching SIG, eLearning SIG, People Science SIG, Performance Support SIG, Talent Development Leaders SIG), a newly established Coaching Center of Excellence, and bi-monthly networking only events. Nation members (td.org) have access to discounted conference and events as well as additional webinars. You also have e-books, magazines, communities of practice, and research at your disposal.

 

I hope you’ll join us so you can take advantage of all ATD and ATD NYC have to offer.  Until then, remember, we develop you, so you can develop others to reach their full potential.

 

 

 

What are your thoughts on these events? Which insights resonated the most with you?

 

 

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