
It is Learning at Work Week again
It is Learning at Work Week again
It surely cannot be a year since we shared our outputs from 2021s event!
This year's theme is one that really captured my imagination. I work alongside an incredible team of people who have pulled off an enormous successful piece of work over the last 18 months. We, along with other colleagues across the institute, have launched a learning experience platform that the CIPDs 160,000+ members can use to access a range of member benefits, including our Essential Insights learning programmes (which is a core membership offering). We have a rhythm of releasing 4 new Essential Insights every 3 months. In the main most of these link direct to our profession map that sets out the standards for people professionals to champion better work and working lives.
This has been no mean feat. We have worked with a range of subject matter experts, some of whom took a leap of faith with us, because we started creating our products before the platform was secured, often painting a picture of our vision with the paint still wet and working out processes as we went along.
The technology shaped elements of our offering naturally, but we were clear, we wanted to push boundaries, exploring what great self-serve asynchronous online learning could look like.
In the ‘before times’ we may have created one new course every 6 months or so, during 2020 and 2021 we created over 40 new products varying from 90 minutes to 70 hours in length. It has been full on! However, looking at the resources our members and subscribers can access we can see the results of our hard work. And early feedback is good, usage varies across the products as expected, and the numbers have exceeded planned launch expectations. We have also looked at a range of ways of measuring beyond access and completion and starting to see the results of these come through.
We cannot rest on our laurels, there is much we still want to do, we embraced a minimal viable product approach – something that was not comfortable for everyone, but we have a review cycle planned. We are working out what parts of the profession map we are tackling next. We are looking for examples of ‘what happened next’ after our members and subscribers completed their learning so we can see the impact and transfer of learning.
For LAWW this year the CIPD Learning team are again collaborating with our internal learning and OD colleagues again whose work supports the 350 CIPD employees based in the UK, Ireland, Dubai and Singapore. There is an exciting agenda internally that links each of this year's learning uncovered themes.
As we go through the programme will also be taking a moment to reflect on our experience over the last 18 months. We have had team members unearthing their hidden powers, we have embraced new dimensions in our work, we have demonstrated that even with our combined vast experience in learning, there is much still to learn, every day really is a learning day!
I have curated a series of blogs to share with the wider L&D community this year, getting some of the CIPD Learning Team members to make their connection with the learning at work week topics with the aim of inspiring others to consider uncovering new dimensions, hidden powers and really unearth learning potential
David Hayden Learning Content Manager CIPD