Iterative and Individualized Learning
Here's the simple truth: people have no time anymore for meetings, PD sessions or other group events. That doesn’t mean they will never go to another one ever again; there’s no question that in-person events still hold great importance to a workplace community. But more people will be forced to say “no” more than “yes,” or they will excuse themselves early “something has come up.” If they stay, part of their minds will be preoccupied by a message or a deadline appearing on their screen, and they must then spend much of the next day or two catching up with everything they put aside to attend.
Then there are those who are simply not comfortable in multi person events. Whether due to personality issues, linguistic. Distance, or social barriers, or just a distaste for organized meetings, these events are not for everyone, and pressuring them to attend and participate is unfair and increasing going against DEI policies.
And then there is overload. There is only so much that any person can take in in one sitting, and as the phsychologist Herman Ebbinghaus demonstrated a century ago, people forget if they don’t get a change to build knowledge, piece by piece.
All in all, the live, in-person event is dying away.
I have delivered hundreds pf professional development classes over the past 30 years and have noticed a measurable and ongoing decline in signups, participation and outcomes. If they were just my sessions, I would think maybe I’m not such a great speaker. But they are happening everywhere.
Continuous learning faculties in schools and companies find it increasingly difficult to schedule events that people are able to attend and benefit from and attendees themselves seldom recall much of what they heard or saw.
The need is clear. People need to work and learn in a more individualized, iterative setting, and often asynchronously, on their own time. This will be the new approach to learning, collaborating and managing time.
This course is intended to demonstrate how this can be best achieved and is intended for team leaders, managers, instructors and participants alike. It is a course where people can learn how to learn in our new and very different world.
Of course, we offer this program as a series of asynchronous modules, but it is also offered as a three-hour virtual course to fit in with existing PD curricula, but to remain true to our philosophy, these courses are recorded and edited into modules for those who cannot attend part or all of the event.
This is the future of learning and the future of work, and frankly you’ll find it’s better than what we have had for the past century.
