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Mary Russell

Career planning in a blue collar company

Jeffrey Russell Author Chat May 16 at 2010 ASTD International Conference and Exposition

Lou Russell is president and CEO of Russell Martin & Associates. She is the author of the ATD Press books Project Management for Trainers, Leadership Training and 10 Steps to Successful Project Management, among other titles. In addition to her many books, she contributes frequently to Computer World, Cutter Executive Reports, and Network World, among others, and publishes Learning Flash, an electronic newsletter.Lou speaks at several national and international conferences, such as the Project Management Institute, Project World, and LotuSphere. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Purdue University, where she taught database and programming classes, and a master's degree in instructional technology from Indiana University.

Lou Russell

May 2016 - The Public Manager

A United Effort at DHS

Learning methodologies are cheat sheets. The ADDIE methodology (analyze, design, development, implement, evaluate) was developed by Florida State University for the U.S. Army as a repeatable and standard set of tasks to create training. At the time of its creation, similar methodologies emerged in other areas. For example Tom DeMarco, Ed Yourdon, and Larry Constantine were developing SSADM (structured systems analysis and design methodology) for data processing's growing complexity. In all cases, methodologies allow teams to follow a repeatable series of steps, adjusted for the context of their project, to drive speed and quality. These methodologies were called Top Down and later Waterfall, and that's where the problems began to emerge. David Parnas (U.S. Naval research), in “A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It,” writes: "Many of the \[system's\] details only become known to us as we progress in the \[system's\] implementation. Some of the things that we learn invalidate our design and we must backtrack." Top Down doesn't backtrack easily. It's more start over than backtrack, and no one wanted to do that. Imagine painting a family portrait and then having to add another person to it. The IT industry tried to mitigate Parnas' reality by creating RAD (rapid application development). Requirements were gathered and upfront focus groups with critical stakeholders and iterative prototyping were used to drive design and development. This solved most of the backtrack problem, but many IT teams struggled with prototyping that would never end. They called this death spirals.  SAM (Successive Approximation Model), created by Allen Interactions, has emerged as an alternative to ADDIE, especially when doing e-learning solutions to drive performance improvement. The kickoff focus group is called Savvy Start, and the risk of death spirals has been mitigated through three design and three development iterations. Allen Interactions's philosophy maps the purpose of this methodology toward driving performance. The current iteration of methodology is “Agile.” This approach challenges not only the accountability of roles and ownership of deliverables, but also flies in the face of current multitasking project work. The primary difference in this approach is that smaller chunks are completely finished through locked-down teams in a fixed period of time (sprints). This is not prototyping—the deliverables are complete, useable components. In my opinion, true Agile is difficult to implement in typical corporate organizations and cultures without creating a new and independent organization. The chief energy officer of Torrance Learning, Megan Torrance, has been successful in using Agile approaches to deliver e-learning to their customers through LLAMA (lot like Agile methods approach), their unique approach to agile. So, there you have it: a brief breakdown of the methodology wars. It’s up to you to decide which works best for your design plans. For a deeper dive into the various learning methodologies, join me for the next online workshop, Essentials of Learning Design Methodologies: ADDIE, SAM, Agile, and More.

Methodology Wars: ADDIE vs. SAM vs. AGILE

Many employees need more time to focus on their personal and professional development outside of work. Caring about what they care about in communities of learning, work, and life quality will increase, as will retaining women and mothers.

Creating Learning Communities to Increase and Retain Women in Leadership

What is Demo Day?
This free, half-day event offers you the opportunity to see live demos from five leading learning management systems. Each 30-minute demo allows you to see the platform in action, ask questions, and request additional information. Selecting an LMS is a tough decision and a big investment. Let ATD Demo Day help you learn about the benefits of a variety of options at once.
Who is it for?
Anyone who is currently looking for a new LMS, soon to be in the market for a new LMS, or simply looking to stay current on the latest LMS suppliers and features.
 
Demo Day Agenda:  (All times below are Eastern Standard Time)

11:55-12:00 pm        ATD Introduction & Welcome: 
12:00-12:30 pm       Manage And Develop Deskless Workers    (Bluewater)                
12:45-1:15 pm        The Learning Suite – Europe's Leading Enterprise Learning Platform (imc)
1:30-2:00 pm           Personalizing The Employee Learning Experience  (Totara)                   
2:15-2:45 pm           Using Skills Development To Future-Proof Your Business  (Schoox)
3:00-3:30 pm           Transform Learning Culture & Drive Business Results--In 5 Min Per Day (Axonify)

 
Session Descriptions:

12:00-12:30 pm

Manage And Develop Deskless Workers
Most studies put the deskless worker population at 80% of the global workforce. That is 80% of workers that don’t have regular access to a computer for learning, training, or career development. How does your current learning technology support reaching your entire workforce?

Bluewater will demonstrate our unique Managed LMS solution, including platform-enhancing products and services that help our customers manage and develop their traditional, deskless and extended enterprise learners.

During this session we will cover the following:

While your LMS selection is critical, choosing the company who will truly work together with you is more critical.
Bluewater enhanced products dramatically improve user experience improving adoption and completions.
Why worry when you have a managed service provider to guide and work for you every step of the way.

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12:45-1:15 pm

Introducing The imc Learning Suite – Europe's Leading Enterprise Learning Platform
Join Russell Donders, LMS & e-Learning Expert, for a deep dive into Europe's leading enterprise learning suite. Discover how a pioneering platform offering a highly configurable, all-in-one LMS and LXP can transform your user-centric learning strategies into real business success. Find out how major European companies have taken their specific learning goals to the next level by leveraging imc's flexible, secure, and adaptable system to deliver a personal experience for every user.

During this session you will:

Get the lowdown on optimizing your organization's learning & development outcomes with state-of-the-art tools for delivering exciting and engaging online, offline, and blended learning experiences.
Discover how a multi-tenancy capability allows for powerful centralized governance and administration of your enterprise requirements, whatever the complexity of your business or diversity of your learner groups.
Learn how your organization can serve the widest range of content objects with out-of-the-box solutions, easy custom authoring, the latest in gamification, and highly customizable learning resource management options.

Speaker:
Russell Donders, Director International Market Development
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1:30-2:00 pm

Personalizing The Employee Learning Experience With Totara
Get a practical, step-by-step demonstration of how to use Totara’s flexible LMS platform to create a truly personalized learning experience for your employees. You’ll see the admin experience and how audience functionality and integrations can make an exclusive, tailored learning environment.
During this session you will learn to:

Create employee learning personalization with Totara LMS
Automate L&D functionality for your administrators
Improve learning reporting and tracking

Speaker:
Marc Benton, Senior Sales Engineer
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2:15-2:45 p.m.

Using Skills Development To Future-Proof Your Business
With unemployment levels at all-time lows and many workers rethinking their employment options, businesses must ensure they're upskilling and reskilling employees to continue to deliver results amid changing economic conditions.
Global organizations use Schoox to engage employees, increase job satisfaction, and boost retention levels. Schoox brings learning and development together to provide users—from the front line to the corporate office—with continuous learning opportunities and clear paths for advancement. Drive retention and build your future leaders with Schoox.
During this event, you will learn to:

Boost retention with our employee-driven career paths, dynamic skills assessments, and adaptive learning recommendations engine.
Engage your workforce via groups, discussion boards, rankings, leaderboards, and QR codes.
Create personalized experiences for learners automatically based on their data, preferences, and more.

Speaker:
Tim Welsh, Senior Solutions Consultant
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3:00-3:30 pm

Transform your learning culture and drive business results—in 5 minutes per day
Time. It’s the biggest obstacle in workplace learning. Employees can’t always find time for development activities in their busy schedules. Organizations struggle to keep pace with operational changes and don’t prioritize the time that’s needed to overcome mounting skill gaps. But learning isn’t a one-and-done process. It takes time to build new skills and foster a learning culture.
We can’t create more time. The solution? Adapt your learning practices to fit within the limited time people have. Discover how Axonify applies microlearning, big data and AI to deliver personalized learning experiences that fit seamlessly into even the busiest workdays. Whether it’s onboarding, compliance, reinforcement or career development, Axonify makes learning simple, fun and engaging—in just 5 minutes per day—and helps employees get things done and drive results.
It’s time to move beyond learning in the flow of work to make learning part of the job. We’ll show you how!
During this event you will learn:
1) How to build a habit of everyday learning within your organization
2) How to apply data and AI to personalize learning at scale
3) How to build results-focused solutions using microlearning principle
Speaker:
JD Dillon, Chief Learning Architect 

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