Posts Tagged ‘#LearningAndDevelopment’

Harnessing the power of AI in LMS

We are often asked how AI tools can be integrated into LMS platforms. Here are the most common ways we’re seeing this done:  Chatbots and virtual assistants have been around for some time and can offer learners instant support and guidance at any time  Generative AI enables course creators to develop content, generate course summaries…

Major change management plan template

If you’ve been tasked with implementing major change, it may be one of the most challenging assignments of your career. This Major Change Management Plan Template from Business Enterprise Mapping provides a high level summary of the sorts of objectives and process steps that should be covered in your strategy. It doesn’t provide guidance on…

A tikanga-forward approach to onboarding success

When we bring new people into the team, we usually have three main goals:   We want our new people to be engaged with the organisation, which includes being connected with their team.   We want them to be able to contribute in their role as soon as possible.  And we want to set them up for…

Values alignment key to successful change?

This 2008 research paper from Emerald Insight – Achieving organisational change through values alignment – investigates the importance of values alignment in successful change strategies. It concludes that widespread resistance to organisational change is caused by a failure of current organisational change strategies to attend to a values alignment process for all those people affected…

Your LMS as a growth tool: Aligning technology with business objectives

A Learning Management System (LMS) is a significant investment, so you would think that it would be linked explicitly to the strategic value it delivers to an organisation, as you would find for core IT infrastructure or production facilities, right? Not necessarily.  We’re surprised by the number of organisations that do not have a clear…

Maximising the value of Ai in learning content.

  The Gartner Hype Cycle is well-documented, and we’ve seen countless learning technologies pass through it. VR is a prime example of the trough of disillusionment that has swallowed up many enthusiasts. Ai, however, is different. It’s broken the curve, or at least the curve is of a scale and pace rarely seen. But just…

Diagnosing the need for change

If you’re interested in frameworks and models for diagnosing the need for change, this article provides a useful summary of the more common diagnostic tools, including Weisbord’s Six Box Model, the Burke-Litwin Causal Model, Force Field Analysis and the 7S Framework. All of them stress the interrelated nature of change drivers and the need to…