- The transition to digital learning is here.
But that doesn't mean making the transition
at your company is going to be easy.
Let's talk about some of the challenges
you're going to face.
The biggest one is the traditional mindset.
First let me talk about stakeholders.
Stakeholders, bless their souls,
know very little about effective training.
That's your responsibility.
But they do know the traditional training model.
Which is, they request training and you
build the course or a module and deliver
it to learners.
That's what they know,
and that's what they expect.
So when in the kickoff meetings
you say things like,
you know, processes within the business are
changing so rapidly,
that I think the best learning solution
should be a robust set of just in time resources
that learner's pull when they need to.
The first response to your suggestion will be
silence, then a stakeholder saying,
uh, what about the course?
Won't there be some type of course
so we can ensure that people learn
what they need to learn?
Most of your learning solutions will contain
at least some traditional elements.
There might be an instructor-led piece,
an e-learning piece, a webinar,
a job shadow, and so on.
So to address the,
yeah, but what about the course objection,
in your meetings with stakeholders
stress the traditional elements
they are comfortable with.
Show them how digital learning assets
compliment the traditional ones.
Now, let me address the traditional mindset
of trainers, meaning me and you.
It's going to feel weird as you develop your
first few digital learning solutions.
You're probably used to architecting the whole
experience for the learner.
Guiding them through pre-work
and ILT, or a series of online modules,
and then the follow up training.
With digital learning, however,
you give a lot of that control back
to your learners.
My advice, let it feel weird.
Transitions always do.
The feeling will pass when your
project is successful.