HCMx Radio: Business Impact of the Modern Learner

We have seen in our research and our conversations with Learning and Development professionals that training programs and building content are drastically changing.  You can’t just build a program and expect to automatically attract your learners – like creating a beautiful baseball field where all the best players come to play in the movie Field of Dreams.  Developing great learning programs are not one-dimensional. Not only do you have to create great content, but it needs to emotionally and mentally match the needs of the learner. shutterstock_275800268

The modern learner is tech-savvy and digitally connected to many devices, all the time.  Today it is all about customization and personalization. The concept makes great sense – who doesn’t want to have personal treatment? How elated do you feel when you go to your neighborhood restaurant and the staff welcomes you by your first name and immediately takes care of you?  It is certainly nice when the principal at your children’s school quickly responds to your email. The same principles apply in learning. Today’s employees expect — or demand — that their organizations understand them, value them and respond to their development needs in the same way a restaurant, school, or any other organization outside the workplace would respond to their needs.

In our latest HCMx Radio episode, Sam Herring, CEO of Intrepid Learning, joined Brandon Hall Group to share his views on how organizations are meeting the needs of the modern corporate learner in ways that lead to a real impact on the company’s bottom line. Sam was the member of the founding team of Intrepid Learning Solutions in 1999 and became CEO in 2012.  Sam has led Intrepid to develop its first SaaS learning technology products — the Learning Hub and Corporate MOOC.

In Brandon Hall Group’s Learning Technology 2016 study, respondents reported that only 4% were very satisfied with their learner-generated content and, yet experiential learning and personalization to the individual is seen as critical to the business.  Two out of three companies say that it is essential to the organization to be able to deliver a learning experience that is tailored to the learner – and it is necessary to offer a variety of methods to be able to support the learner. However, there are a lot of assumptions still out there about modern learners and online learning – that you can’t have both engagement and scale at the same time, for instance.

Download the podcast anytime at the HCMx Radio site and gain insights on how we can all do better in delivering learning that has impact for the business.

Rachel Cooke, Chief Operating Officer, Brandon Hall Group

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Chief Executive Officer of Brandon Hall Group Mike Cooke Prior to joining Brandon Hall Group, Mike Cooke was the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of AC Growth. Mike held leadership and executive positions for the majority of his career, at which he was responsible for steering sales and marketing teams to drive results and profitability. His background includes more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, management, and operations in the research, consulting, software and technology industries. Mike has extensive experience in sales, marketing and management having worked for several early high-growth emerging businesses and has implemented technology systems to support various critical sales, finance, marketing and client service functions. He is especially skilled in organizing the sales and service strategy to fully support a company’s growth strategy. The concept of growth was an absolute to Mike and a motivator in starting AC Growth, in order to help organizations achieve research driven results. Most recently, Mike was the VP and General Manager of Field Operations at Bersin & Associates, a global analyst and consulting services firm focused on all areas of enterprise learning, talent management and talent acquisition. Tasked with leading the company’s global expansion, Mike led all sales operations worldwide. During Mike’s tenure, the company has grown into a multi-national firm, conducting business in over 45 countries with over 4,500 multi-national organizations. Mike started his career at MicroVideo Learning Systems in 1992, eventually holding a senior management position and leading all corporate sales before founding Dynamic Minds. Mike was CEO and Co-Founder of Dynamic Minds, a custom developer of software programs, working with clients like Goldman Sachs, Prentice Hall, McGraw Hill and Merrill Lynch. Also, Mike worked for Oddcast, a leading provider of customer experience and marketing solutions, where he held a senior management position leading the company into new markets across various industries. Mike also serves on the Advisory Board for Carbon Solutions America, an independent sustainability consulting and carbon management firm that specializes in the design and implementation of greenhouse reduction and sustainability plans as well as managing the generation of carbon and renewal energy and energy efficiency credits. Mike attended University of Phoenix, studying Business Administration and Finance. He has also completed executive training at the Chicago Graduate School of Business in Chicago, IL.

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