Leadership is Influence. Everything rises and falls on leadership, everything.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Insights to understand:
The world’s most successful people learn differently than the rest of us.
- Problem: Most of what we learn is wasted.
- The surprising science behind turning what you learn into action isn’t memory or habit it is into action.
- We are the #1 solution but the first to go when there is a problem.
- Executives frequently request learning solutions.
- But, at the same time, those will be the first to cut the learning budget.
- One reason is we rarely follow through and show the value of the request in business terms, leaving the requester to wonder if the learning was effective.
- This dilemma is complicated by the fact that most executives view learning as a cost and not as an investment in employees.
Most job-related learning is wasted.
- Learning leaders often discuss scrap learning, or the portion of learning not used on the job.
- We want it to be applied, but, depending on which study you examine, this wasted learning can be anywhere between 50 and 90 %.
- The transfer of learning to the job is a constant and perplexing problem that needs to be addressed early and often—before, during, and after a learning program.
Most e-learning and online learning break down to the application and impact levels.
- A third dilemma is based on the need and desire to have learned just in time, at the right cost, in the right amount, at the learner’s convenience.
- This is difficult to achieve logistically unless it is formatted as technology-based learning.
- Well convenient, accessible, and low cost, e-learning is not as effective as facilitator-led learning when measured at the application and impact levels.
- The concern is to make e-learning effective at these levels, using designers’ and developers’ creative spirit and administrators’ business-minded focus.
- We all know that a great facilitator can inspire, encourage, support, and even insist that learners apply what was learned.
- Absent the facilitator, this task falls to the designers and developers.
Everything rises and falls on leadership. If you can grow your leadership it will help grow your home, job and every area of your life.