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Advocate Aurora Healthcare

Session Focus: How Advocate Aurora Health provides essential skills for non-leadership roles to develop, gain resources, grow professionally, and extend their networks to strengthen them for their next promotion.

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This session provided valuable insights into leveraging cohort-based programs to strengthen resilience, inclusivity, and sustained development among high-potential employees.
<blockquote>"The strength of a network can go up over time, even as skills might depreciate. Building that network in cohort formation is incredibly valuable." This quote from <a href="https://www.ele.llc/members/alan-todd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alan Todd</a> underscores the sustainable impact of network-building in talent development.</blockquote>
By connecting employees in meaningful, collaborative ways, cohort-based learning enables participants to grow within a network that reinforces retention and long-term engagement, helping your organization build a resilient workforce.

Key Takeaways for HR Talent Leaders:

1. Long-term Network Building and Sustainable Development
A well-structured cohort program offers lasting benefits by creating a supportive professional network. This network becomes a resource participants rely on for ongoing resilience, even as specific skills evolve or shift with industry needs.

2. Inclusion and Structure in Leadership Development
Designing cohort criteria with clear DEI goals, such as a diversity target, ensures a broad range of talent benefits from career growth opportunities. This intentional approach can transform your pipeline by embedding inclusivity into development and enabling underrepresented talent to access leadership pathways.

3. Empowering Mentors and Facilitators as Part of Their Development
Encouraging mentorship and facilitation as developmental opportunities can boost engagement among potential mentors. When framed as a professional growth tool, mentoring becomes a valuable skill for those who support the cohort, enriching their careers and strengthening their connection to the organization.

By focusing on these strategies, senior HR leaders can make cohort programs a cornerstone of a resilient, inclusive, and engaged workforce that’s well-prepared for future challenges.

HiPo Development | Designing Cohort Learning to Scale

evidence-based research

Engagement &amp; Culture

Leadership

Peer-to-Peer Learning

jean.ryan

learning design

cohort learning

career development

collaborative learning

learning culture

early career

mentoring

edward.desrosiers

jesse.james

flow of work

mary.mcnevin

Learning Agility

hipo

high potential

employee experience

kelly.stallbaum

diego.frausto

Semi-synchronous Collaborative Peer-Learning

Scalable Global Cohorts

tamora.martin

alan.todd

thomas.fons

Designing Cohort Learning to Scale

Session Focus: How Advocate Aurora Health provides essential skills for non-leadership roles to develop, gain resources, grow professionally, and extend their networks to strengthen them for their next promotion.


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? Cohort-based collaborative learning and coaching are the hottest topics in L&amp;D right now

During the Covid-19 pandemic, collaborative learning and coaching are rising for many organizations.

Many ELE member companies are sharing best and next practices and validated with the Global L&amp;D Trends Research presented at our May 2022 Exchange. Technology and semi-synchronous learning design help scale with cohorts ranging from 6-8 to more than 1,000.

By benchmarking with your peers, this seven-week series explains the basic concepts and principles for cohort-based learning at scale. 

For many of us, the journey starts with providing in-person classroom training (synchronous), e-learning (asynchronous), or blended learning.

? An emerging next practice for designing cohort learning to scale is semi-synchronous collaborative peer learning. Learning solutions become instructorless and easier to scale when well thought out and done right.
<blockquote>Wes Kao is a long-time believer in “cohort-based” learning programs. Cohort-based learning involves a group of students—a cohort—all moving through a syllabus together at the same time. Cohort-based learning is the opposite of asynchronous, mass online open courses, (MOOCs) where students move at their own pace through course content.

Kao said that cohort-based courses are far more engaging for learners than MOOCs, which have been criticized for low enrollment and completion rates. Over the past decade, cohort-based classes have risen in popularity, addressing common complaints about MOOCs.

Cohort-based classes offer live feedback from a teacher and courses with set start and end dates. In real-time, groups of students are able to hold each other accountable, push each other to experiment with class material, and challenge each other’s ideas.

Source: <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/maven-wes-kao-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wes Kao, co-founder of Maven, Interview</a></blockquote>
1️⃣ First, we will explore
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<ul>
 	<li>How to cultivate a sense of safety and belonging</li>
 	<li>Why you should put learners, not instructors, at the center of your learning experience</li>
 	<li>How to accelerate knowledge sharing and peer facilitation</li>
</ul>
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</ul>
2️⃣ Next, we will share a cohort-based solution designed to help team members in non-leadership roles develop essential skills, gain resources, grow professionally, &amp; extend their networks to strengthen them in their current roles &amp; for career advancement.

3️⃣ A strategic transformation for many organizations is creating Learning 4.0 Mindset Shifts to help reinforce skills, facilitate feedback, increase collaboration, and share expertise across teams. Through a collaborative ecosystem of tech-savvy peer-to-peer and expert assessments, employees actively engage in the mastery of skill development.

<img class="aligncenter" src="https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Navistar-Learning-4.0-Midset-Shifts.png" alt="Learning 4.0 Mindset Shifts " width="1250" height="612" />

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We are interested in diving deeper into cohort-based learning solutions and finding success using some or all of the eight principles:
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 	<li>Well-designed social interactions</li>
 	<li>A sense of safety and belonging</li>
 	<li>Real people engaging authentically</li>
 	<li>Opportunities for individual reflection</li>
 	<li>Knowledge sharing and peer facilitation</li>
 	<li>Arguing (constructively) together</li>
 	<li>Learners, not instructors, at the center</li>
 	<li>Human stories expertly told</li>
</ol>
Pre-read: <a href="https://cohort.nomadiclearning.com/cohort-based-learning-report">Cohort-Based Learning at Scale – Eight Principles for Success</a> (Nomadic, 2022)

ELE Produces this Learning Circle: Designing Cohort Learning to Scale

single-event

Team Leaders

Your Teams

Learning Circles

online event

Stepan Company, a global chemical manufacturer, has implemented a redesigned year-long leadership development process for high potential talent: the Emerging Leaders Program. Throughout the program, participants embark on a journey of action learning, self-reflection, and networking grounded in Stepan’s mission, vision, and values. They are challenged to apply new leadership behaviors on the job.

Questions that participants will be asked to encourage their participation and contributions of ideas include:
<ul>
 	<li>How is your organization’s approach to leadership development similar to or different than Stepan’s?</li>
 	<li>What aspects of this program might or might not work well in your organization?</li>
 	<li>What ideas do you have for how this program could be improved?</li>
</ul>
Hear how Stepan’s line leaders & learning leaders approach demonstrating business impact and engage in a lively discussion.

Leadership by Design: Weaving Values and Practices through an Emerging Leaders Program

new manager

leadership development

accelerated leadership development

joe.misurac

A.O. Smith

To succeed in the shifting business landscape of the 21st Century, leaders must rethink their historical views and cultivate a new configuration of attitudes and abilities. What competencies, skills, attitudes, and characteristics are essential for the leaders of tomorrow? What critical practices are critical for leaders to confront today’s workplace challenges? Join this session to hear perspectives from several panel members about what’s needed for the leader of the future.
To help guide the roundtable discussion, our facilitator will cover some or all of the following:
<ul>
 	<li>The characteristics needed for leaders today and in the future</li>
 	<li>Strategies for communicating with and developing leaders</li>
 	<li>How to motivate leaders</li>
 	<li>Accountability and Tracking – how to best measure leadership development</li>
 	<li>Change management considerations – how to get leaders to embrace constant change</li>
</ul>

Developing the Leader of the Future

analytics

michael.grubich

marysue.handel

Change Management

post-mortem analysis

janie.jewett

Johnson Controls

Watch Kimberly Bors share Johnson Controls insight on the next generational global workforce.

Trends with GenY for a Global Workforce

onboarding

Millennials

communication

multicultural

kimberly.bors

Baxter

Four major trends are shaping the current business environment, which has been referred to as the Shift Age. We will explore these trends and the implications for developing leaders within this new business reality. The four significant shifts are:

<ol>
 	<li>The move from tangible to intangible</li>
 	<li>The move from factory worker to artist</li>
 	<li>The move from content to context</li>
 	<li>The move from generalized to personalized</li>
</ol>
To help guide this roundtable discussion, we’ll encourage participants to share the following:
<ul>
 	<li>Why is foresight (seeing the relevant opportunities that are emerging) becoming an increasingly important competency? How can developing a mentoring network help current and future leaders better develop and apply foresight?</li>
 	<li>Why should organizations broaden their view of mentoring beyond only integrating it into traditional point solutions (e.g., HIPO development, onboarding, diversity development)?</li>
 	<li>How can organizations meet the needs of their established point solutions while at the same time create enterprise-level networked mentoring and knowledge sharing practices?</li>
 	<li>How should generational preferences and expectations (especially those of Millennials/Gen Y) influence organizations to adopt broader networked mentoring and knowledge sharing practices?</li>
 	<li>How is the enterprise, networked mentoring different from social networking?</li>
</ul>
Learning Leaders will discuss how broad-based, networked mentoring practices can positively impact and influence the development of future leaders and the entirety of the workforce.

Creating 2020 Leaders through Networked Mentoring

knowledge transfer

Coaching

diversity &amp; inclusion

social learning

dina.vance

brigette.richaerson

sue.weller

sonia.vora

Learn how elite athletes like Michael Jordan, Sandy Cofax, Tom Glavin, and Pedro Martinez, deal with pressure. In his 15 years as a major league pitching coach, with "Moneyball" Oakland A's, NY Mets, Milwaukee Brewers and Baltimore Orioles, Rick Peterson has coached Hall of Famers, Cy Young winners, and many other elite athletes. In this book, he and bestselling author and leadership expert, Judd Hoekstra make this skill available to everyone. From an insider's perspective, learn how you too can become a Crunch Time performer and perform your best in all situations. With fascinating behind-the-scenes examples from some of the top names in sports and business, Rick and Judd offer six powerful reframing strategies to help you see a pressure situation with a new perspective so that it shifts from a threat that can make you panic to an opportunity for you to shine. With a Forward by "Money Ball”, Billy Beane, EVP, Oakland Athletics.

Crunch Time: How to Be Your Best When It Matters Most

judd.hoekstra

strength

high performance

nicole.defalco

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: Passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher, and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

team-building

team-development

amy.cooper

keri.kersten

Global Teams

Performance Improvement

grit

anne.tessier-chenebeau

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People).

The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance.

In Grit, she takes us into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll.

“Duckworth’s ideas about the cultivation of tenacity have clearly changed some lives for the better” (The New York Times Book Review). Among Grit’s most valuable insights: any effort you make ultimately counts twice toward your goal; grit can be learned, regardless of IQ or circumstances; when it comes to child-rearing, neither a warm embrace nor high standards will work by themselves; how to trigger lifelong interest; the magic of the Hard Thing Rule; and so much more. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference. This is “a fascinating tour of the psychological research on success” (The Wall Street Journal).

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

story-telling

amy.kirkpatrick

katrina.nordquist

laura.sandera

terresa.bubbers

catherine.hebel

Unlock your potential and finally move forward.

A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly elusive.

Given that the status quo is so potent, how can we change ourselves and our organizations?

In Immunity to Change, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey show how our individual beliefs--along with the collective mindsets in our organizations--combine to create a natural but powerful immunity to change. By revealing how this mechanism holds us back, Kegan and Lahey give us the keys to unlock our potential and finally move forward. And by pinpointing and uprooting our own immunities to change, we can bring our organizations forward with us.

This persuasive and practical book, filled with hands-on diagnostics and compelling case studies, delivers the tools you need to overcome the forces of inertia and transform your life and your work.

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good)

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