This post has been excerpted from it’s original content, Episode 18 of The Performance Matters Podcast.
In this episode Con answers questions submitted from our good friends at ttc Innovations.
What is broken with traditional learning and how do we fix it?
Well, it’s kind of important to see ourselves with where we really are.
Unfortunately, in traditional learning, the focus is on learning instead of on
performance, making sure that people can perform effectively on the job, all
the time, anywhere. The mindset in Learning is really quite narrow. Many years
ago—1984 actually—I became very much aware that there were five moments of
learning need. Two of those are traditional learning moments—the moment of
learning new and the moment of learning more.
But I also became convinced that there was a very important moment that if
you don’t take care of it, everything that you do in learning new or learning
more is moot. And that’s the moment of apply, when people have to take whatever
it is that they have learned and perform effectively at the moment of apply.
Then there is the moment of change that is also in the workflow, and the moment
of solve, also in the workflow.
Those five moments of need are very important for us to address. Unfortunately,
in traditional Learning, we take a very narrow view and focus in on the
learning without taking into consideration what needs to happen at the moments
of apply, solve, and change.
So what’s broken? It’s really our mindset, where we’re thinking about
learning rather than performance. And we’re very narrow in that view of what we
do.
What does a 5 Moments of Need Solution look like?
It’s a blend of learning and performance support. The discipline of
performance support is really the discipline of providing just what you need,
at the moment of need, to help you get the job done.
A 5 Moments of Need Solution assists people not only in the learning, where
I learn to be independent in the workflow, but also across that learning
through the Transfer phase and into the Sustainment phase. That is,
transferring what I’ve learned to my job and then sustaining me in an ever-changing
work environment. A 5 Moments Solution addresses all of that, as I move from
Training to Transfer to Sustain across all five moments of learning need.
How does a 5 Moments solution deliver measurable results?
You know, Gloria Gery wrote an interesting article in the 90s. As she was
being asked to report on traditional learning metrics, she asked, “Why don’t we
just weigh them? Why don’t we just bring in cattle scales and weigh our
students?” She understood then that most learning metrics don’t really get at
what really matters, which is how people can perform effectively and our
ability to measure that.
When you build a 5 Moments Solution, you extend your reach into the
workflow. You build a performance support solution that supports people as they
do their job in the flow of work. Because it’s extended into there, because we
have tools helping people in the performance of their jobs, we have the ability
to gather metrics in ways we have not been able to gather metrics in the past. So
our ability to reach in and know that people are actually performing on the job
to be able to ask very brief questions about that performance and gather that
data allows us to truly measure business impact. Like time to effective
performance, or reduction of time wasted as people are searching for the
resources they need to do their job.
There are really five areas of business impact that we can now measure.
Those include 1) the ability to measure how we are able to optimize performance
in the workflow; 2) increase profitability; 3) reduce operational risk; 4)
cultivate a dynamic, engaged workforce; or 5) reinforce organizational mission
and values. We’re able to gather data in all five of these areas because we
have reached into the workflow. We intentionally have solutions in the workflow
supporting people as they do their jobs.
What is the difference between adaptive and personalized learning?
Personalized learning is a broader view of learning. Adaptive learning is a
type of personalized learning. It’s very knowledge-based, frankly. It’s
adaptive. It’s smart. It pushes questions to you. As you answer those
questions, you may have access to resources to help you in the answering of
those questions. And as you learn adaptively, the system is able to understand
and determine of whether you have really mastered that piece of knowledge or
not. It will use its algorithms to push those questions to you over time so
that you learn over time and have it reinforced. It’s very nice learning
system. A lot of the gaming technologies that are in place to help us learn
through gaming is really adaptive learning being applied that way.
Personalized learning is really broader than that. Adaptive learning is a
part of personalized learning. But if I have you learning in the workflow on
tasks that only you need to know, and I have everything you need supporting you
as you do that, that in a sense is personalized learning. Particularly if you
have access to on-the-job coaching and association. Even in a classroom, I can
have personalized learning where I turn you lose to use a digital coach—an
EPSS—to work on learning that is personalized to you. So personalized learning
is a broader engagement in learning. It’s anything we do to make sure you are
focusing only on what is important to you in your growth and development rather
than the generalized learning where I’m listening to things I’m learning and
practicing on things I need to know but the person next to me doesn’t need to
know.
How does artificial intelligence impact the speed of change?
Smart performance support is really important. Mobile technology is
enabling us to know who you are, where you are, what you are doing, what is around
you. This data allows us to become very smart in what we’re pushing to you
based upon what you and others are doing and what [data] you’re using and how
you’re using it to be able to impact your work.
Artificial intelligence is an exciting frontier but it is a frontier. We
need to move into this with great speed and attention, but also care to make
sure that what we are doing is allowing us to learn from the performance of
others and adapt and change based upon that learning.
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