on?
Consolidation and new entries
Recent years have seen the LMS market mature with various consolidations - such as the creation of SumTotal Systems
from Docent and Click2Learn. The main new entry to the EMEA market was
from the leading US LMS and Performance Management vendor, Plateau.
Overall we feel that there has been a positive move forward with
regards to Learning and Performance Management Systems. Observations
have been made in previous years of the fear of change within the
industry, however, we now believe this has stabilised and brought a
maturity to the market.
Talent & Performance Management is hot
Improving individual performance is now much more than delivering
and managing their training courses and learning activities. The hot
topics are Talent Management, Talent Retention and Perfomance
Management; aligning organisational goals covering areas such as Goal
setting, Succession Planning and Gap Analysis. How many times has your
organisation felt the impact of losing a key member of the management
team? And how much has it cost you? Talent & Performance Management
addresses these issues and more, taking the strategic proactive
approach and delivering culture changing results!
To social or not to social?
The web has had a major shift towards social technologies, creating
systems that only work when there is a following. Some of the most
obvious examples are MySpace, Bebo and YouTube. Online communities have
risen, blogging and podcasting have exploded - now online videos are
becoming increasingly popular.
Strategic choices are increasingly being made by organisations to
use social networking for learning communities. It is well known that informal learning
makes up a very large percentage of overall learning. Organisations
need to seize this moment and use the technology to their advantage.
Don’t get left behind whilst others are increasing communication,
knowledge transfer and sense of belonging that comes with their social
network.
How social is your organisation going to be?
No fear for technology, welcome the digital natives
Most of the current population did not grow up in the world of the
web. However, as scary as it may sound, those that have grown up with
it will soon be leaving school, college, and university to enter the
workplace. There is much less fear of technology for this generation,
it all comes as second nature which will lead to a greater acceptance
of technology based learning.
We call these people the digital natives, people born from 1984
onwards. They know technology as a part of their life and don’t possess
the same fear that many of ‘us’ do.
With higher expectations, technology is the norm - it’s instinct for
them to Google to learn. To read and write blogs. Download and listen
to podcasts. Create their own online space. Watch and create their own
videos.
If this is the ‘norm’ for them what will you need to do to retain
their talent? If your organisation does not move forward with
technology would the digital natives want to be a part of you?
Let’s get social - talk to a friendly expert.
