Workshop 11

Title: Organizational Learning Agility — How to Thrive in a Changing World

Workshop Description:

Today, organizations find themselves in a threatening climate of unrelenting change. To ultimately survive, organizations must be prepared to continuously undergo new knowledge cycles to prepare for new competitive cycles — constantly re-tooling in order to maintain competitiveness. This state of competitive agility can only be achieved with change-savvy leaders who intentionally cultivate a culture of continuous learning. In addition, organizations must establish a fully-loaded performance support infrastructure that facilitates rapid collaborative learning. Only then can any organization approach the capacity it needs to grow, change, or innovate, at or above the speed of its own market. “Learning Agility” is the capacity to respond to opportunities, threats, or crisis through unencumbered real-time acquisition and application of knowledge and skills.

Participants in this session will discuss how learning leaders can move forward in helping their organizations achieve greater learning agility. You’ll discuss the eight recommendations from an indepth research report “In Search of Learning Aility” sponsored by The eLearning Guild, ASTD, and CLO Magazine.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to transform learning into a strategic asset
• The five factors for achieving organizational learning agility
• Where to turn to learn how to lead in a state of continual change
• How Learning Technologies need to be orchestrated to facilitate learning agility

Presenter: Conrad A. Gottfredson

Dr. Conrad A. Gottfredson has deep experience in organizational learning, collaborative development, knowledge management, on-line learning, performance support, and instructional design and development. He is the original developer of the “Learning at the Five Moments of Need” framework that is now in use around the world. He has worked with many of the world’s largest organizations, assisting them in bringing their organizations to higher levels of learning agility. His experience includes the design and deployment of large-scale knowledge management and performance support systems within multi-national corporations. His Ph.D. is in Instuctional Psychology and Technology. He is currently a Senior Partner and Chief Learning Officer for TRCLARK.