The Scalable Organization Development
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Wiztango is a digital platform for Publishers, Authors, Enterprises and other Content Originators to facilitate learning circles.
Location
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145 Lorong Ah Soo #06-145, Hougang, SG, Singapore View Map
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Premise
In the article, “L&D’s biggest challenge and greatest opportunity: letting go” Jane Hart wrote “Modern professionals like to learn with and from others” As organizational leaders, are we leveraging an effective framework to achieve this? Learning circles is a scalable framework for digitally-facilitating collaborative learning at-the-workplace.
Description
Our aim is to coach a team to design, develop and deliver a learning circle. Your first priority is to choose a topic. Next, select three to five relevant professionals to form your design and delivery team. The team must comprise of a subject matter expert along with training professional, content designer, instructional designer, senior management, facilitator, manager and other functional roles. Then we plan out a schedule, either it is rapid 1-2 days to completion or slow and steady over a couple of weeks.
Our intervention consists of synchronous face-to-face sessions combined with asynchronous digital learning. The purpose of our face-to-face interventions is to review completed work and validate next steps. In between, the team continues and completes the design & development learning circle.
The ultimate goal is to permeate the learning experience through the organization. As a result, the garnered collective intelligence can be shared with key stakeholders. The outcomes and analytics support managers in creating an evidence-based and actionable plan for subsequent learning interventions;
Learning circles are an effective framework for Digital Organization Development and owe its origin to Study Circles from Sweden. Some of the core principles include equality of participants, facilitated learning not training, a collaborative and not competitive environment and balancing knowledge acquisition with social communication.
Key Learnings
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To contextualize and define the learning circle overview
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To apply instructional design models and formulate a blended learning plan
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To develop and publish digital content
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To deliver a digitally-facilitated learning experience
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To share qualitative and quantitative outcomes and analysis
Pre-requisites
1. Bring a laptop or a digital device, preferably with a keyboard
2. Our Face to face session should be a minimum of 60 minutes, although 90 minutes is preferred
3. Ensure sufficient lead time for your stakeholders, we recommend a minimum of 1-2 weeks
Format
Methodology
Learning stakeholder
Pre-learning
1. On boarding
2. Complete assigned pre-work
Post-learning
1. Complete assigned post-work
2. Implement action plan
References
Bring your laptop or tablet device to enjoy this unique participatory experience
Watch a promotion video on the Art of War by Sun Tzu Chapter 1 Learning Circle http://bit.ly/LearningHackVideo
Watch a learning circle in action video http://bit.ly/2xQbYXa
Contact a learning circle originator to invite & host, co-facilitate or participate http://bit.ly/allSLC
Access learning circle photo albums, videos and content http://bit.ly/2xqJC08
Topics and agenda
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1. A Warm Welcome
On boarding | 15 MinutesLets get you on board and do a bit of practice
To achieve a sense of comfort in your digital learning environment
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2. Getting to Know You
Ice Breaking | 20 MinutesHave you share your background, expertise and highlight your uniqueness
To know each other better along with our respective purpose for being here
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3. Project Overview
Aligning | 15 MinutesConfirm your outcomes, deliverables and set mutual expectations
To create alignment for the stakeholders
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4. Setting the Context
Researching | 30 MinutesExplore methodology, technology, ecosystem and other relevant background information
To research and contextualize aspects and concepts
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5. Digital Perspectives
Exploration | 20 MinutesResearch relevant components, inputs and outputs for digitalization
To know the life cycle of digital learning design and development
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6. Start-up
Brainstorming | 30 MinutesDiscuss the intervention, implementation, key issues, roles, growth, transformation and KSF
To create the key inputs for your Learning Circle
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7. Project Plan
Actioning | 30 MinutesDefine your project leads, drivers and estimates
To assign and action key deliverables
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8. The Overview
Design & Development |Specify and define the name, premise, description, outcomes, deliverables and other relevant items
To begin the process of content development
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9. The Learning Plan
Design & Development |To list the topics, objectives and other points relevant to the flow of learning
To design & develop the learning plan
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10. Story Boarding
Design & Development |Create content for each topic, review and validate the flow and design
To learn and implement instructional design
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11. Digital Publishing
Design & Development |Publish the developed content
To learn and implement content publishing
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12. Digital Facilitation
Piloting |Prepare facilitation notes and script
To implement and practice the delivery of your learning content
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13. Go-To-Market
Workshop | 30 MinutesGoing to Market in today's digital world is exciting work for sales and marketing professionals. Having a marketing plan makes it efficient and effective.
To design, develop and implement your Marketing Plan
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14. Review and Reflection
Feedback |Step back to share your learning experience, highlight areas to improve on future performance and recommend action points
To analyze what you have learned and achieved
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15. Reference
Receiving | 30 Minutes
Professionals
CEO, Entrepreneur, Chief Architect Learning Circles
PJ is the Chief Architect of Learning Circles and creator of Wiztango.com a Digital Facilitation Technology Platform for Content Originators. He is an American with a global background as an entrepreneur in technology and education management.
In 2002, he founded and for fourteen years successfully managed an in-residence corporate university for Japanese employees of Hitachi Corp, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Yokogawa, Panasonic and 30 global Japanese corporations. The Singapore-based company achieved $8.9M revenue at its peak and had 1,000 Japanese graduates from 25 global-skill development programs.
In the past 25 years, PJ has had pioneering leadership roles in the digital transformation of multiple industries including Pre-Press (Israeli-based Scitex Corp), Photography (Boston-based Leaf Technologies), Printing (Dutch-based Indigo Corp) and Advertising (Boston-based Engage Technologies)
Metabridge LLC
At Metabridge, we work with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Product Owners, Authors, Publishers, Training Providers, Corporate, Institutes and Schools and a wide gamut of the learning supply chain.
Our growth business model and Learning Circle technology enables SMEs & Content Originators to build a scalable learning model by digitalizing their expertise and then assigning trainers and teachers to facilitate digitally-blended training as a Learning Circle for employees, professionals or students to contextualize & apply learning, resulting in learning through collective intelligence and a high ROI.