UL Solutions

Session Focus: UL Solutions combines peer learning, on-the-job application, group coaching, and experiential learning for yellow belt certification to increase on-the-job application and improve business impact.

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This session provided invaluable insights into the power of cohort-based learning and how a learner-centric, feedback-driven approach can drastically improve training outcomes.
<blockquote>One of the standout moments came when Azizeh Constantinescu shared: "Our learners co-created this program with us... We continuously made modifications based on their feedback."</blockquote>
This quote underscores the importance of involving employees in the learning process, ensuring that programs remain relevant and effective through continuous feedback and improvement.

Here are three key takeaways that HR leaders should focus on:
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 	<li>Learner-Centric Design is Crucial: Shifting from a top-down instructional approach to one where learners actively pull information ensures better retention and engagement. HR leaders should prioritize programs that put employees in control of their learning.</li>
 	<li>Continuous Feedback Fuels Improvement: Real-time feedback and iterative program design allow training to stay aligned with learner needs. By embracing this agile approach, HR leaders can build adaptable learning experiences that resonate with their workforce.</li>
 	<li>Balance Information with Practical Application: Increasing hands-on, practical activities rather than focusing solely on content delivery leads to more successful on-the-job application. HR leaders should emphasize learning designs that provide opportunities for employees to apply concepts in real-world scenarios.</li>
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By integrating these principles, senior HR talent leaders can create training programs that not only engage employees but also drive measurable results in performance and development.

Yellow Belt Lean Six Sigma Certification | Designing Cohort Learning to Scale

evidence-based research

Engagement &amp; Culture

Peer-to-Peer Learning

newton.moore

alison.cowan

learning design

cohort learning

collaborative learning

learning culture

performance improvement

azizeh.constantinescu

edward.desrosiers

jesse.james

quality training

flow of work

Learning Agility

Lean Six Sigma

Performance Improvement

diego.frausto

Semi-synchronous Collaborative Peer-Learning

Scalable Global Cohorts

daryl.fleary

Designing Cohort Learning to Scale

Session Focus: UL Solutions combines peer learning, on-the-job application, group coaching, and experiential learning for yellow belt certification to increase on-the-job application and improve business impact.

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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. 
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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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 	<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>
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2️⃣ Next, Azizeh Constantinescu will share a cohort-based solution for yellow belt certification that combines peer learning, on-the-job application, group coaching, and experiential learning for Practitioners to improve business impact.

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.

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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

GE HealthCare

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In this session, you’ll get the opportunity to explore the GE &amp; UL approaches using Lean and dynamic work to foster individual learning as part of organizational learning &amp; development.
<h6 class="font-weight-bold m-0">What we will explore together:</h6>
Lean thinking is a self-directed learning strategy that develops people's reasoning by incorporating self-reflection. Self-reflection is a diagnostic on to itself. Reflection is “practice.” The Lean part of this equation is also a focus on eliminating waste in the performance and execution of one’s skills that are deployed in the flow of work.

Learning organization is the capacity of an organization to reinvent its products/ services through the collective learning of its employees. They will acquire the personal learning mastery and along with the leaders, they have to identify learning opportunities, solve problems, share the solutions and make them accessible for reuse and product/ process improvements
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We explore and have a conversation on the following questions:

✅ How can we design the learning organization without additional technology investment and in a “scrappy or agile” way?

✅ What are the components of a learning organization that emphasize the Lean principles and behaviors?

✅ GE’s approach to integrating personal learning into organizational knowledge. A step-by-step process for comprehensive L&amp;D with a Lean mindset.

✅ UL’s approach to dynamic work design in coordination/ collaborative work hands-offs.

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Re-thinking Learning Organization | Applying Lean Principles

learning strategy

Strategy

Digital &amp; AI

transformation

agility

learning &amp; development

teresa.oliszewicz

learning experience platform

strategic alignment

alignment

strategy

platform strategy

high performance

rachad.el-badawi-el-najjar

insights-wise-2021

annotation

This book is about process: the anatomy and physiology of process. The process itself has an anatomy from which process standards might be defined. The process also has a physiology, that is to say, it thrives in the human ecosystem by interaction points with the organization. This book is written for the LSS practitioner who seeks to develop skill in the practice of process design and development. It leverages concepts found in LEAN literature and your knowledge of common continuous improvement tools from the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) toolbox, and it expands the use of those tools for the practitioner to develop technical process design and development expertise.

Applied LEAN for Operations: Process Design & Development Methodology™: The Anatomy & Physiology of Process

Operations

continuous improvement

key performance indicators

A radical approach to growing high-quality talent--fast

You know that winning in today's marketplace requires top-quality talent. You also know what it takes to build that talent--and you spend significant financial and human resources to make it happen. Yet somehow, your company's beautifully designed and well-benchmarked processes don't translate into the bottom-line talent depth you need. Why?

Talent management experts Marc Effron and Miriam Ort argue that companies unwittingly add layers of complexity to their talent-building models--without evaluating whether those components add any value to the overall process. Consequently, simple activities like setting employee performance goals become multipage, headache-inducing time wasters that turn managers off and fail to improve results.

Effron and Ort introduce a simple, powerful, scientifically proven approach to increase your ability to develop better leaders faster: One Page Talent Management (OPTM). Using the straightforward, easy-to-follow process described in this book, you will eliminate frustrating complexity, focus only on those components that add real value, and build transparency and accountability into every practice. Based on extensive research and experience in companies such as Avon Products, Bank of America, and Philips, One Page Talent Management shows you how to:
<ul>
 	<li>Quickly identify high-potential talent without complex assessments</li>
 	<li>Increase the number of "ready now" successors for key roles</li>
 	<li>Generate 360-degree feedback that accelerates change in the most critical behaviors</li>
 	<li>Significantly reduce the time required for managers to implement talent-building processes</li>
</ul>
mDo away with complexity and bureaucracy--and develop the high-quality talent you need, right now.

One Page Talent Management, with a New Introduction: Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value

Integrated Talent Management

succession planning

talent management

accelerated leadership development

missy.gonzales

benchmarking

360-degree feedback

jake.tipton

catherine.hebel

A noteworthy and pragmatic tool for the Lean Sigma practitioner, this book goes into detail concerning the practice of lean sigma well beyond that covered by traditional course work and certification in order to illuminate the many areas in a business where the practical application of Lean Sigma can add value and enable world-class performance. The author imparts knowledge gained over twenty years of practical experience as well as that gained from intensive study of Lean Science and Lean Literature, making this a must-read for those who strive to master the trade of Applied Lean for Operations.

The Art & Science of Applied Lean for Operations: Lean Sigma Practice Beyond Certification

cindy.pinkstaffmiller

terresa.bubbers

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.

The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.

Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs—in companies of all sizes—a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt, and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in an age when companies need to innovate more than ever.

The Lean Startup

experiential learning

dirk.tussing

Project Management

innovation

rapid prototyping

learning experience

experimental learning

business

Fewer man-hours. Less inventory. The highest quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer. In factories around the globe, Toyota consistently raises the bar for manufacturing, product development, and process excellence. The result is an amazing business success story: steadily taking market share from price-cutting competitors, earning far more profit than any other automaker, and winning the praise of business leaders worldwide.

The Toyota Way reveals the management principles behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Dr. Jeffrey Liker, a renowned authority on Toyota's Lean methods, explains how you can adopt these principles--known as the "Toyota Production System" or "Lean Production"--to improve the speed of your business processes, improve product and service quality, and cut costs, no matter what your industry.

Drawing on his extensive research on Toyota, Dr. Liker shares his insights into the foundational principles at work in the Toyota culture. He explains how the Toyota Production System evolved as a new paradigm of manufacturing excellence, transforming businesses across industries. You'll learn how Toyota fosters employee involvement at all levels, discover the difference between traditional process improvement and Toyota's Lean improvement, and learn why companies often think they are Lean--but aren't.

The fourteen management principles of the Toyota Way create the ideal environment for implementing Lean techniques and tools. Dr. Liker explains each key principle with detailed, examples from Toyota and other Lean companies on how to:
<ul>
 	<li>Foster an atmosphere of continuous improvement and learning</li>
 	<li>Create continuous process "flow" to unearth problems</li>
 	<li>Satisfy customers (and eliminate waste at the same time)</li>
 	<li>Grow your leaders rather than purchase them</li>
 	<li>Get quality right the first time</li>
 	<li>Grow together with your suppliers and partners for mutual benefit</li>
</ul>
Dr. Liker shows the Toyota Way in action, then outlines how to apply the Toyota Way in your organization, with examples of how other companies have rebuilt their culture to create a Lean, learning enterprise. The Toyota Way is an inspiring guide to taking the steps necessary to emulate Toyota's remarkable success.

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