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Shure Incorporated

Session Focus: How should L&amp;D respond?—“Return to the Workplace” Strategies
Case study: Shure

ELE's Idea Exchange: Collaborate your insights online with your peers <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/operations/when-do-you-plan-to-re-open-corporate-offices-related-to-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
Useful Employer Resources: <a href="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The i4cp Productivity Blog</a>

What are your “Return to the Workplace” strategies?
<ol>
 	<li>How does L&amp;D add value with ILT sessions on hold?</li>
 	<li>Has anyone created or found self-assessment employees can use to determine if working remotely is a fit for them personally and professionally?</li>
 	<li>What are your internal client’s perspectives on L&amp;D evolving—pre &amp; post coronavirus?</li>
 	<li>What are the most prominent concerns employees have?</li>
 	<li>How might L&amp;D be involved (with communications, resources, or even some compliance training?)</li>
</ol>
Due to interest in L&amp;D during this pandemic and an overwhelming amount of participants, we are holding a fifth free Virtual Cohort to discuss COVID-19 and how companies are reacting with new questions and open the floor to new discussion.
<blockquote>Join the conversation! Email john@learningexecutive.com with questions and session topic ideas to determine upcoming topics.</blockquote>
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Insights: Pre-read &amp; Previous COVID-19 Recorded Session(s)

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- ELE’s Idea Exchange: Collaborate your insights online with your peers <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/strategy/covid-19-how-should-ld-respond/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/strategy/covid-19-how-should-ld-respond/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>
- <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2020/05/covid-19-lc-4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle #4: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (May 18, 2020)
- <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2020/05/covid-19-lc-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle #3: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (May 04, 2020)
- <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2020/04/covid-19-lc-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle #2: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (Apr 20, 2020)
- <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/coronavirus-lc-2q2020/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/coronavirus-lc-2q2020/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (Apr 06, 2020)
- <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Keeping Employees Engaged During Times Of Change</a> (Oct 2016)
- Useful Employer Resources: <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" href="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The i4cp Productivity Blog</a>

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<a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="size-medium wp-image-16108 aligncenter" src="https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Engagement_Workstreams-1-300x201.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="201" /></a>
<blockquote>Consider joining ELE's Virtual cohort for Learning &amp; HR Executives. A TEAM LEADERS Membership grants a year-long learning process through face-to-face collaboration and networking with other local heads of Learning &amp; Talent Development, access to a robust archive of Virtual cohorts and exchanges via ELE Insights, and robust question &amp; answer forum named the ELE Idea Exchange. Each senior leader is encouraged to bring a peer from their organization that contributes to, engages, or supports the Learning &amp; Talent spectrum for their workplace.

Our quarterly cohort exchanges are built around the following design elements:
<ol>
 	<li>Sharing practical case studies aligned to business needs</li>
 	<li>Identifying key issues and developing insights and solutions</li>
 	<li>Canvassing learning industry trends applied at ELE members' workplace</li>
</ol>
For more information, visit <a href="https://learningexecutive.com/our-membership-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://learningexecutive.com/our-membership-plans/</a>.</blockquote>

COVID-19 Learning Circle #5: How should L&D respond?

single-event

digital

learning strategy

Team Leaders

Your Teams

Learning Circles

tim.treger

charisse.kosova

operations

thomas.stone@i4cp.com

i4cp

coronavirus

covid-19

agility

learning &amp; development

Complimentary

online event

complimentary event

Engagement &amp; Culture

Session Focus: Are there “Return to the Workplace” strategies in place? (Case study: Shure)
ELE's Idea Exchange: Collaborate your insights online with your peers <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/operations/when-do-you-plan-to-re-open-corporate-offices-related-to-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
Useful Employer Resources: <a href="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The i4cp Productivity Blog</a>

Due to interest in L&amp;D during this pandemic and an overwhelming amount of participants, we are holding a fourth free Virtual Cohort to discuss COVID-19 and how companies are reacting with new questions and open the floor to new discussion.

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Are there "Return to the Workplace" strategies in place?
<ol>
 	<li>Do organizations have a team/task force focused on this? Who is involved?</li>
 	<li>What safety measures are being considered?</li>
 	<li>What are the biggest concerns employees have?</li>
 	<li>How might L&amp;D be involved (with communications, resources, or even some compliance training?)</li>
</ol>
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Insights: Pre-read &amp; Previous COVID-19 Recorded Session(s)

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- ELE’s Idea Exchange: Collaborate your insights online with your peers <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/strategy/covid-19-how-should-ld-respond/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/strategy/covid-19-how-should-ld-respond/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>
- <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/coronavirus-lc-2q2020/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/coronavirus-lc-2q2020/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (Apr 06, 2020)
- <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2020/04/covid-19-lc-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle #2: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (Apr 20, 2020)
- <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2020/05/covid-19-lc-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle #3: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (May 04, 2020)
- <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Keeping Employees Engaged During Times Of Change</a> (Oct 2016)
- Useful Employer Resources: <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" href="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The i4cp Productivity Blog</a>

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<a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="size-medium wp-image-16108 aligncenter" src="https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Engagement_Workstreams-1-300x201.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="201" /></a>
<blockquote>Consider joining ELE's Virtual cohort for Learning &amp; HR Executives. A TEAM LEADERS Membership grants a year-long learning process through face-to-face collaboration and networking with other local heads of Learning &amp; Talent Development, access to a robust archive of Virtual cohorts and exchanges via ELE Insights, and robust question &amp; answer forum named the ELE Idea Exchange. Each senior leader is encouraged to bring a peer from their organization that contributes to, engages, or supports the Learning &amp; Talent spectrum for their workplace.

Our quarterly cohort exchanges are built around the following design elements:
<ol>
 	<li>Sharing practical case studies aligned to business needs</li>
 	<li>Identifying key issues and developing insights and solutions</li>
 	<li>Canvassing learning industry trends applied at ELE members' workplace</li>
</ol>
For more information, visit <a href="https://learningexecutive.com/our-membership-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://learningexecutive.com/our-membership-plans/</a>.</blockquote>

COVID-19 Learning Circle #4: How should L&D respond?

Session Focus: Is your team experiencing Collaborative Overload? (Case study: Shure)
Case study: Shure &amp; i4cp Research

Due to interest in L&amp;D during this pandemic and an overwhelming amount of participants, we are holding a third free Virtual Cohort to discuss COVID-19 and how companies are reacting with new questions and open the floor to new discussion.

&nbsp;

Is there Collaborative Overload?
<ol>
 	<li>How much are remote workers suffering from collaborative overload? What is the main cause… video meetings, collaboration tools, email, etc.?</li>
 	<li>What positives (e.g., no commute is huge for many, but some mentioned increased time for learning) are people getting from the past several weeks of remote work/pandemic conditions?</li>
</ol>
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Insights: Pre-read &amp; Previous COVID-19 Recorded Session(s)

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- ELE’s Idea Exchange: Collaborate your insights online with your peers <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/strategy/covid-19-how-should-ld-respond/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/strategy/covid-19-how-should-ld-respond/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>
- <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/coronavirus-lc-2q2020/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/coronavirus-lc-2q2020/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (Apr 06, 2020)
- <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2020/04/covid-19-lc-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle #2: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (Apr 20, 2020)
- <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Keeping Employees Engaged During Times Of Change</a> (Oct 2016)
- Useful Employer Resources: <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" href="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The i4cp Productivity Blog</a>

&nbsp;

</div>
<a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="size-medium wp-image-16108 aligncenter" src="https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Engagement_Workstreams-1-300x201.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="201" /></a>
<blockquote>Consider joining ELE's Virtual cohort for Learning &amp; HR Executives. A TEAM LEADERS Membership grants a year-long learning process through face-to-face collaboration and networking with other local heads of Learning &amp; Talent Development, access to a robust archive of Virtual cohorts and exchanges via ELE Insights, and robust question &amp; answer forum named the ELE Idea Exchange. Each senior leader is encouraged to bring a peer from their organization that contributes to, engages, or supports the Learning &amp; Talent spectrum for their workplace.

Our quarterly cohort exchanges are built around the following design elements:
<ol>
 	<li>Sharing practical case studies aligned to business needs</li>
 	<li>Identifying key issues and developing insights and solutions</li>
 	<li>Canvassing learning industry trends applied at ELE members' workplace</li>
</ol>
For more information, visit <a href="https://learningexecutive.com/our-membership-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://learningexecutive.com/our-membership-plans/</a>.</blockquote>

COVID-19 Learning Circle #3: How should L&D respond?

Session Focus: How are your team and leadership adjusting to the virtual workspace?
Case study: Shure &amp; i4cp Research

Due to interest in L&amp;D during this pandemic and an overwhelming amount of participants, we are holding a second free Virtual Cohort to discuss COVID-19 and how companies are reacting with new questions and open the floor to new discussion.

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How can we help address the hot topic of “Remote Meetings”?
<ol>
 	<li>Is this a “trainable” topic?</li>
 	<li>How should L&amp;D integrate with other HR workstreams: culture change, messaging, etc.?</li>
</ol>
How are L&amp;D professionals supporting post layoffs/downsizing as a result of COVID?
<ol>
 	<li>Employees dealing with “survivor guilt”</li>
 	<li>Leaders leading remaining employees to instill engagement, productivity, and emotional wellbeing</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div>
<div>How to keep high-potential leaders and their cohort sponsors engaged?</div>
<ol>
 	<li>With additional work with the other personal/societal demands of this time, I am finding that cohorts go one of two ways: They either embrace their cohorts and become event more focused on their interactions and development, or they look for ways to cancel or postpone their tasks or meetings. How are others dealing with this issue?</li>
</ol>
</div>
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Insights: Pre-read &amp; Previous COVID-19 Recorded Session(s)

</div>
- ELE’s Idea Exchange: Collaborate your insights online with your peers <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/strategy/covid-19-how-should-ld-respond/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/strategy/covid-19-how-should-ld-respond/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>
- <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/coronavirus-lc-2q2020/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/coronavirus-lc-2q2020/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">COVID-19 Virtual Learning Circle: How Should L&amp;D Respond?</a> (Apr 2020)
- <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Keeping Employees Engaged During Times Of Change</a> (Oct 2016)
- Useful Employer Resources: <a tabindex="-1" title="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" href="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The i4cp Productivity Blog</a>

</div>
</div>
<a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/2016/10/keeping-employees-engaged-during-times-of-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="size-medium wp-image-16108 aligncenter" src="https://www.learningexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Engagement_Workstreams-1-300x201.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="201" /></a>
<blockquote>Consider joining ELE's Virtual cohort for Learning &amp; HR Executives. A TEAM LEADERS Membership grants a year-long learning process through face-to-face collaboration and networking with other local heads of Learning &amp; Talent Development, access to a robust archive of Virtual cohorts and exchanges via ELE Insights, and robust question &amp; answer forum named the ELE Idea Exchange. Each senior leader is encouraged to bring a peer from their organization that contributes to, engages, or supports the Learning &amp; Talent spectrum for their workplace.

Our quarterly cohort exchanges are built around the following design elements:
<ol>
 	<li>Sharing practical case studies aligned to business needs</li>
 	<li>Identifying key issues and developing insights and solutions</li>
 	<li>Canvassing learning industry trends applied at ELE members' workplace</li>
</ol>
For more information, visit <a href="https://learningexecutive.com/our-membership-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://learningexecutive.com/our-membership-plans/</a>.</blockquote>

COVID-19 Learning Circle #2: How should L&D respond?

marcie.stern

jen.taylor

Session Focus: COVID-19: How should L&amp;D respond? (Case study: Shure)
ELE's Idea Exchange: Collaborate your insights online with your peers <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/idea-xch/idea-xch-category/strategy/covid-19-how-should-ld-respond/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>
Useful Employer Resources: <a href="https://www.i4cp.com/productivity-blog/useful-coronavirus-resources-for-employers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The i4cp Productivity Blog</a>

As many are working through how to best implement social distancing in the workplace, we plan to focus this conversation on how can we as L&amp;D can support associates and the business in multiple ways such as:
<ol>
 	<li>Sessions or other learning on working remotely: productivity; maintaining relationships; etc.</li>
 	<li>Virtual office hours to help people understand their options regarding company policies, etc.</li>
 	<li>Promoting this as a time to focus on learning that had perhaps been put aside and providing access</li>
 	<li>Moving live training to virtual</li>
</ol>
ELE's Virtual cohort for Learning &amp; HR Executives is a year-long learning process through face-to-face collaboration and networking with other local heads of Learning &amp; Talent Development. Each senior leader is encouraged to bring a peer from their organization that contributes to, engages, or supports the Learning &amp; Talent spectrum for their workplace.

Our quarterly cohort exchanges are built around the following design elements:
<ol>
 	<li>Sharing practical case studies aligned to business needs</li>
 	<li>Identifying key issues and developing insights and solutions</li>
 	<li>Canvassing learning industry trends applied at ELE members' workplace</li>
</ol>

COVID-19 Learning Circle: How should L&D respond?

dirk.tussing

steven.ng

kristen.hoskins

ELE Group, LLC

Rob Cross, the leading thought leader on organizational network analysis, will share research and practical examples that go beyond standard “virtual team best practices” and look at the relational dynamics that lead to greater success in virtual teams.

Session Focus: Accelerating Virtual Team Agility &amp; Effectiveness with Rob Cross
Case study: Quantitative Research using Organizational Network Analysis 
<blockquote>With only 29% of organizations believing managers are effective at leading virtual teams, organizations and leaders are in need of new tools to better analyze connectivity and collaboration to improve agility, execution, and workforce performance.</blockquote>
During this virtual cohort interactive discussion, Rob plans to cover:
<ol>
 	<li>How team success today is driven through rapidly forming networks inside and outside of groups. Based on a decade of quantitative research using organizational network analysis, Rob and his team have uncovered internal and external network drivers of performance. He will share these drivers along with practices identified from these highly successful leaders.</li>
 	<li>The six patterns of collaborative dysfunction that have a negative impact on performance. In addition to success drivers, the work has also found six dysfunctional patterns of collaboration that groups drift into in 88 percent of the organizations studied. One of the six archetypes was identified as the primary source of failure in 36 percent of significant collaborative efforts and 24 percent of leadership failures.</li>
 	<li>Driving agility through virtual teams. The session will conclude with the top practices associated with collaborative success in virtual teams.</li>
</ol>
ELE produces this Virtual cohort for Learning and HR Executives is a year-long learning process through face-to-face collaboration and networking with other local heads of Learning and Talent Development. Each senior leader is encouraged to bring a peer from their organization that contributes to, engages, or supports the Learning and Talent spectrum for their workplace.

Accelerating Virtual Team Agility & Effectiveness with Rob Cross

evidence-based research

Talent Executives

Cohort-Virtual

people strategy

Virtual Cohort

serena.huang

rob.cross

Analytics

LAK Group

This highly-interactive experience is an invite-only collaborative in which each participant should plan to login using their webcam and computer microphone/speakers.

Session Focus: Key Steps in Transforming Company Culture
Case study: i4cp research has discovered a blueprint of 18 specific actions to build a strong, healthy, and improved culture—a culture renovation—that will sustain and carry any organization into the future.

Jay Jamrog (i4cp) &amp; Mike Grubich (LAK Group) will review how i4cp's research forms a three-step process to successfully renovate a culture:
<ol>
 	<li>Plan - 90% of organizations that were unsuccessful in transforming their cultures did not set clear success measures upfront. The 66% that did so reported successful transformations.</li>
 	<li>Build - 57% of organizations that have had successful culture transformations conducted an Organizational Network Analysis to identify influencers and energizers to champion the transformation.</li>
 	<li>Maintain – Successful companies were three-to-seven times more likely to change core talent practices, such as employee onboarding, performance management, and talent mobility, to reinforce and engrain new cultural values and behaviors.</li>
</ol>
Learn more about Jay's findings on i4cp's blog: <a href="https://www.i4cp.com/press-releases/only-15-of-organizations-succeed-in-transforming-their-cultures" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ONLY 15% OF ORGANIZATIONS SUCCEED IN TRANSFORMING THEIR CULTURES</a>.

This Learning Circle - Culture Shaping is produced by Executive Learning Exchange.

If possible, please plan to log in a few minutes early to make sure you have the Zoom plug-in loaded on your computer, and your headset/mic is working correctly.