HR learning: 20 Nov, 2017

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How to craft continuous feedback mechanisms?

As traditional year-end feedback mechanisms are rendered irrelevant, here's how companies are transforming their processes.

Traditional performance management is giving way to agile performance management, constituting of continuous feedback, open communication, and a coaching outlook. For the employee, continuous feedback opens up communication channels, nurtures trust and encourages employees to actively participate in their own development and performance, empowering them. For the manager, it makes performance evaluations more objective, collaborative and fosters a coaching and development mindset, thereby presenting a solid business case for companies to move away from traditional yearly appraisals and embrace continuous feedback. 

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How to effectively use video training in your learning program

Either when you are designing training or utilizing free resources for it, you'll want to plan the best way for learners to access the content.

Video training is one of the most efficient and impactful ways to train, share knowledge, and to enable people to address problems quickly. It has immense potential because videos take away the bulk of tedious lecturing time and it gives the trainer the control of class time. The medium has become a sound resource for scaling up learning programs and improving a learner’s career readiness as learners can pick up content based on their varying levels of knowledge.
Anupama Nithyanand, Managing Director at Accenture notes that “the right learning ecosystem should empower learners to learn all the time, in adequately sized bites, to aid absorption and apply the knowledge gained quickly. Video learning is one of the most popular, powerful, and effective modes that modern learners prefer. It takes away the stress of learning, making learning a cool experience! It is interesting to note that it has also emerged as a first choice for learners across varied experience and expertise levels.”

A study by KPMG and Google estimates the size of the online education market in India at $ 247 million, expected to grow at an 8x rate over the next five years to reach $1.96 billion. Continuous technology updates, interaction on virtual forums and dynamic updates make the platform an ideal learning tool.

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A checklist on implementing learning technology

At People Matters L&D League Annual Conference 2017, Donald H Taylor, Chairman at The Learning and Performance Institute talks about the understanding what stakeholders want, building a great team and communicating the right way will help make any learning technology implementation a success.

Making learning technology implementations a success is not easy. The rapid advancements in technology are compelling HR and L&D professionals to implement learning technologies in some form or the other, and yet we see that some problems keep cropping up. Most of these problems are avoidable. Often, they crop up because the L&D team is asked to come up with a technique to make learning technologies work, and they have little first-hand experience. Rather than make mistakes as a first timer, we must aim to share best practices and learn from other’s mistakes. This approach is likely to make your next implementation a success. But to achieve that, one must know what success looks like, in the context of learning technology implementations.