The last few weeks have been very busy, where I was fortunate enough to attend Learning 2009 (www.learning2009.com) in Orlando, Florida. Over 1,300 learning professionals from all around the world attended.
Three major take away for me were :
1. The discussion around the use of video for learning purposes was very insightful. Yes we already use this media but with internet band width every increasing, the very low cost of equipment and software to conduct interactive sessions, the high cost of travel, then we really need to re-look at this medium. The examples presented, especially one from the UK where piano is taught via video, were just outstanding. My feeling is that with 3D imagining not far away, world experts will be able to teach right in your own work place or home but with a true feeling of a face to face interaction.
2. I was gave a presentation around what CPA Australia was doing with social media, there was very good discussion that broke into 3 themes. One around social media being about network learning and connection – a true open connection, very useful for following an event or a topic amongst your friends or colleagues, another around the perceived high reputation risk of using any type of social media and the last around the now very limited commercial gains that social media can bring.
For me, in the end social media is all about being social!
3. The USA is very depressed. I lived there for almost five years from 2002 and the news reports of increasing unemployment and housing foreclosure were very depressing, especially for a country that only wants to promote “good news”. On a global scale the world needs for the US to rebound, I feel around the world the first quarter of 2010 is going to be very slow for many business.
More information about the event as well as follow up activities can be found on the website www.learning2009.com .
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Workforce Trends : 4 Organisational Themes
Last week I meet with Colin Beams from the Workforce Relationship Development Institute (WRDI) which has been doing work for the Australian Government to help identify organizational employment trends in the workforce to help planning for future labor engagement over the next 10-15 years.
Four key trends are beginning to emerge :
1. There will be a more fluid organizational structure, where networks and alliances will be formed between various groups in order to bid for and win work. There will be a rapid increase in the use of virtual organizations to meet the demand.
2. There will be a need for a higher skills and deeper knowledge which will result in
3. A polarization of between skilled and unskilled roles – as the focus will be on what you can bring to the table and being paid to deliver on this.
4. As a result there will be a transfer of risk to the employees, in that more and more workers will be on short term contracts, with a need for these people to be flexible in the hours they work.
The bottom line is those who can continue to be flexible and continue to learning and continually re-skill themselves will be in high demand.
Next week I will be in Orlando Florida, attending the Learning 2009 (www.learning2009.com) where there will be a big focus on re-skilling and flexibility in the work force.
You can follow the conference on twitter by subscribing to Learning2009 and contribute to the feed by using the #L2009. More on all of this next post.
Four key trends are beginning to emerge :
1. There will be a more fluid organizational structure, where networks and alliances will be formed between various groups in order to bid for and win work. There will be a rapid increase in the use of virtual organizations to meet the demand.
2. There will be a need for a higher skills and deeper knowledge which will result in
3. A polarization of between skilled and unskilled roles – as the focus will be on what you can bring to the table and being paid to deliver on this.
4. As a result there will be a transfer of risk to the employees, in that more and more workers will be on short term contracts, with a need for these people to be flexible in the hours they work.
The bottom line is those who can continue to be flexible and continue to learning and continually re-skill themselves will be in high demand.
Next week I will be in Orlando Florida, attending the Learning 2009 (www.learning2009.com) where there will be a big focus on re-skilling and flexibility in the work force.
You can follow the conference on twitter by subscribing to Learning2009 and contribute to the feed by using the #L2009. More on all of this next post.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Leadership .........Keep It True and Simple
This past week I have been very lucky to chair a number of sessions at CPA Australia’s congress (www.cpacongress.com.au) and two particular sessions brought home the idea that to deliver good leadership for your staff and your organization, you need to keep things simple.
Amanda Gore led a very fun and interactive on the need to connect your "head to your heart" when you are making decisions, and to make sure you keep them connected. Not having these linked, lead to a poor decisions, often a disgruntled staff (and family) and stress for everyone. She also advocated the need to have fun at work and to celebrate success, as she said "they don’t teach that in today’s MBA programs!"
The second session was with Michael Choudhury who presented "Effective Communicating Financial Data" sound very dry but it wasn’t. He gave a number of great examples of how to do this in a very simple and easy manner. The key is to strip away the noise and give people the information they can understand and make decisions on – keep it simple, use colour and diagrams rather than a mass of numbers. One outstanding example (and very funny) he used was on Professor Hans Rosling worth taking a look. (http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html#)
Amanda Gore led a very fun and interactive on the need to connect your "head to your heart" when you are making decisions, and to make sure you keep them connected. Not having these linked, lead to a poor decisions, often a disgruntled staff (and family) and stress for everyone. She also advocated the need to have fun at work and to celebrate success, as she said "they don’t teach that in today’s MBA programs!"
The second session was with Michael Choudhury who presented "Effective Communicating Financial Data" sound very dry but it wasn’t. He gave a number of great examples of how to do this in a very simple and easy manner. The key is to strip away the noise and give people the information they can understand and make decisions on – keep it simple, use colour and diagrams rather than a mass of numbers. One outstanding example (and very funny) he used was on Professor Hans Rosling worth taking a look. (http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html#)
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