On the way home... ASTD with Epsilon

Last week I spoke at a mini ASTD2012 ICE comeback conference for Epsilon. This blog outlines content and delivers references noted during the session..

 

To kick off the conference, I showed this small film montage (80 seconds) of the conference..

Before getting into my resume of the conference, I showed the results of my pre-conf survey on what my network expected from the ASTD2012 ICE…

..then I reminded everyone of what @fredericw told us in 2011 about transatlantic trends in learning + development.

 

I went to the ASTD2012 ICE to get information about 3 main things:

• The future of the L+D profession
• Creating engagement in today’s work environment
• Current and future trends + what this means for learning

 

Here’s what I got from DAY ONE on the future of the L+D profession:

 

As Jim Collins said in his key-note, effective people have a “not-to-do-list” to help them think about where they should put their efforts. @innovativesarah Senior L+D Specialist from Google suggested the same thing for L+D professionals:

• What can the learning population figure out for itself?
• What should someone else be doing?
• What should we just forget about?
• How can L+D better work together with the rest of the organisation?

 

I shared some ideas about Infinite Learning and the 70:20:10 principle evoked by people like @charlesjennings and @C4LPT and discussed the idea that we should not think about either/or, but “and” (more on this in a future blog….). I also added that yes, “command + control” should exist next to “encourage + engage” because what we see with Blanchard and Hersey’s Situational Leadership model should be applied to L+D management as well… Its not because Generation Y likes self-learning that they can be left to do everything themselves! They might need some help…

 

DAY TWO was all about engagement for me…

 

First I shared some ideas from Kevin Cope on what L+D professionals should be focussing on.. Read the blogspot here or watch this short video introduction from Kevin at ASTD2012 ICE:

 

If you think in line of those 5 drivers, some specific investments definately make sense..

• Onboard young professionals in 90 days, as suggested by @alexiavernon
• Invest in all kinds of multicultural skills, because there are SO many different culture differences going on
• Copy the Hard Rock Respect Effect because it creates more innovation, more happiness and more engagement at work

 

DAY THREE Future trends worth developing

 

According to Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, the automated “live to 100″ super-structured big-data VUCA world means that people are going to need many new skills..

• Learning Agility is the idea discussed by Vicki Swisher that people will need to be able to constantly learn, unlearn and relearn in order to deal with everything
• As @hjarche , another member of the ITA says, the ability to make sense of all that big-data will be key to Personal Knowledge Management (blog = excellent reference for all things PKM)
• …and don’t forget all those tools and technologies we need to excel with !

 

 

Personally, I did a lot of blogging and tweeting during ASTD2012 ICE. You can find many more resources from others on the ASTD2012 ICE collected back-channel resources page of @LnDDave or by following one of these links:

• What my network expects from ASTD2012 ICE
• MS SharePoint as a corporate anti-firewall SoMe approach
• Aligning management development to today’s trends
• Learning Agility: the X-factor for future leaders
• ASTD and the content-crisis
• John Boudreau says HR has to change its approach
• HR needs to get commercial
• The perfect learning platform = mobile + brain
• Jim Collins goes from good to great ..by choice
• Jim Collins’ Top 10 things to do
• Sarah Bloomfield on the non-consulting mindset of L+D professionals
• Create or curate? That is NOT the question
• If you want to show value, you’ve gotta have business acumen
• Getting to the high-ground of innovation via jazz improvisation
• Onboarding Gen-Y: Breaking old habits to build new habits
• The Respect Effect rocks the Hard Rock Cafe
• ps, respectfully yours
• Increase learning effectiveness and engagement with Gamification
• Plenty to learn to keep up with the future

 

…now, go do some work!

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