With budgets being stretched increasingly thin it is becoming more and more difficult to get the budgets needed to create great learning interventions, let alone the additional budget needed for performance support and marketing aspects that should go along with them. By developing only the learning interventions and not thinking about how the learning will be promoted, how the learning will be supported after it has taken place, and how we can create a desire to learn the content in the first place, we are dooming our courses to low uptake rates and failure.
The trick then seems to be to design our courses in a new way that incorporates these promotional and change management elements into the learning strategy.
Here at the Performance Workshop, powered by BluePencil Education Services, we have defined a unique approach to learning that we call: “DO IT”.
DO IT! stands for:
- Demystify
- Ownership
- Implement
- Transform
Using a variety of blended learning tools we manage the rollout of the required outcomes, performance change, promotions and change management elements through this easy to follow process.
Phase 1: Demystify
In this phase we take the complicated and make it uncomplicated by demystifying concepts and, using a connectivist approach, linking them to things that the users already know. This allows the users to see the propose and use of the new information and makes them more open to learning it as:
- It seems clear
- It seems useful
- It will help them to achieve their goals
The key thing here is that this changes the learning from a “push” methodology to a “pull” methodology. If we can get the leaners to ask: “How?”, “Why?”, “Where?”, we have won half the battle of getting them to actually learn.
Phase 2: Ownership
In this phase we create a sense of ownership in the users by showing them how the learning is accessed and allowing them to access the training, information, and support tools “on demand”.
Phase 3: Implement
Phase 3 sees us implementing the learning through blended roll out.
Phase 4: Transform
In the final phase we support the learning into the workplace through job aids and blended support tools. This cements the changes required of the outcomes.
By implementing this approach you can not only achieve all your outcomes, performance change, promotions and change management needs, but you can also do it (lol) in a more dynamic, modern and engaging way. Your learners will thank you for making the learning more dynamic and appealing, and your budget holders will thanks you for innovating under budget!
So come on: DO IT!
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