Change and innovation happen constantly in the L&D industry, and this can be challenging for your organization. But if you have an L&D team and strategy that’s flexible and ready to evolve, suddenly change can become a growth opportunity instead of a roadblock. 

How can you create a resilient, future-focused L&D team? Join Annee Bayeux, chief learning strategist at Degreed, to find out. You’ll explore five key principles of an agile L&D organization to help you give your learning team the right skills and strategies to support your business through this age of uncertainty. 

You’ll find out how to establish: 

• Innovative, specific job roles for your L&D team members. 
• A holistic learning ecosystem. 
• A modern and flexible content strategy.

Imagine working in an organization that prioritizes professional development and growth for all ― where people seek to become “learn-it-alls” rather than “know-it-alls,” ask better questions of themselves and each other, and see mistakes as learning opportunities. In this session, we’ll discuss how to create a culture like this through the practice of coaching, by highlighting what works from the research and the advice and experiences of real coaches. We’ll define “coaching culture,” dive into its key components from the research and offer practical guidance on the next steps you can take to build this environment from the top down and bottom up.

Has your leadership development training kept pace with the changing world of work? The workforce has faced and adapted to monumental change in recent years ― from embracing the distributed workplace to creating more inclusive cultures. To succeed in this new world of work, leaders and managers need new power skills ― like empathy, agility and problem solving. And to develop these skills and drive positive behavioral change, they need new ways of learning that enable self-awareness and personal growth. 

Join us for a customer conversation on Building Future-Fit Leaders Through Coaching.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• The critical leadership competencies needed to be a future-fit leader, and what the best learning methods are to develop these power skills.
• How learning leaders are building leadership coaching programs and what results they are seeing to date.
• The best practices for developing a coaching program and ensuring it achieves tangible outcomes.

Moderna was launched into the global spotlight due to its role in the COVID-19 pandemic. This session will focus on how the organization’s obsession over learning allowed it to respond quickly and effectively — and how that learning is now benefitting its people, partners and the world. The discussion will focus specifically on the buildout of Moderna University and how the company is challenging convention in learning to achieve more patient-centric outcomes in shorter time periods, driving a culture of sustainable high performance and innovation. The session will also dig into the Moderna University approach to learner experience and engagement, technology, programming and pedagogy — all to help leaders scale and learn to thrive in the future.

Part of the Open Sesame/FutureThink Power Skills Series: Learning That Sticks

The strongest leaders excel through power skills ― how well are you teaching these? We’ll show you how with our power skills workshop on curiosity.

Fresh ideas come from being open to diverse opinions, creating a culture that challenges convention and embraces a growth mindset. Join us to discover why curiosity is so important, the power of asking killer questions and the environment that makes inquisitive minds flourish. Participants will get hands-on learning by question-storming real issues right in the room. Get ready to experience actionable learning that sticks.

Shifting to a skills-based learning strategy requires organizations to be responsive and meet the needs of all employees. A successful strategy goes beyond content curation, sophisticated recommendation platforms and reduction of content. It must also include a way for employees to easily assess and track their progress on skills at any moment and as their learning needs change. 

This makes development-based assessments a critical tool for any skills-first organization. When these assessments are positioned as informative and not evaluative, employees receive powerful and relevant data that fuels the insights needed to effectively recommend and guide their skill progression.  

In this session, McKinsey will share examples from using development-based assessments across the talent spectrum, including talent acquisition, onboarding and risk and compliance, as well as insights from its game-based innovation lab. 

Amazon’s Career Choice program, one of the largest upskilling programs in the world, is celebrating 10 years this year. Amazon announced their expansion of the program this past year, including new investments and opportunities tied to providing employees access to education and training to grow their careers at Amazon and beyond.

As employers are struggling with filling jobs, and engaging and keeping their employees, this session will discuss ideas, best practices, and outcomes from a decade of experience solving for some of these challenges at one of the world’s largest employers.

Participants will learn more about:

• Program overview and findings from 10 years of outcomes.
• The business case for investment and expansion of this employer’s benefit.
• How other organizations can utilize some of the best practices and lessons learned.

In this workshop, attendees will learn how to integrate their own unique industry standards into an efficacious training program informed by learning theory and methodologies for teaching adult learners. Case studies will be discussed to demonstrate how BlueSprig’s learning and performance development department designed, implemented and evaluated its internal training programs. Attendees will see an example of the design of BlueSprig’s internship program from inception to implementation and maintenance, along with the key performance indicators for the program. Through the case study attendees will see how the program targeted to upskill frontline technicians has gone on to create a continuous learning culture for BlueSprig Pediatrics.

Swivel your chair around. Do you hear that? That’s the sound of the virtual office.  

With more professionals working from different locations — across time zones and countries — this new reality poses a unique set of challenges for employees and leaders alike.  

How can you maintain the same results in a digital landscape? What does communication look like with your team? How can you lead authentically and communicate expressively in virtual and hybrid interactions? 

No matter what your role in your organization, this session is for you. We will share top tips and strategies for developing the ability to show up with enhanced presence and excel in remote settings, with the focus on developing emotional intelligence. Attendees will get the chance for a free trial of an assessment tool to rate and improve their virtual presence.

The reality of the pandemic shook the corporate world when predefined business and people strategies took a 360-degree turn. Leaders became change champions overnight, and leading with resilience amidst ambiguity became the tenet. Loss of lives pushed the human race and leaders in particular to hit the pause button, become reflective, empathetic and trusting. A new mindset for a new reality led us to focus on holistic well-being.

In this contextual session, we will explore how the brain functions in uncertainty and its impact on ways of working. We will delve into the application of neuroscience in leadership while connecting the dots to consciously promote holistic well-being (physical, cognitive, digital and emotional), which is here to stay. We will segue into metacognition to understand the adoption of different frames of references to promote leadership learning with an emphasis on the need for a deeper level of connection with oneself and others at the workplace. We will nuance the cultural lens required for leaders to work with a global and remote workforce.