Does your organization struggle to find a balance between mandatory and elective training? CEO of BizLibrary, Dean Pichee, will take you through the challenges and benefits of both types of training and discuss how to find the balance you’ve been trying to achieve. He’ll give you real examples of what has worked for companies in the past and recommendations to help your organization succeed in the future.

2. Presenting Today
Dean Pichee
President and CEO,
BizLibrary
dean@bizlibrary.com
Erin Boettge
Content Marketing Manager,
BizLibrary
eboettge@bizlibrary.com
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BizLibrary helps organizations succeed by improving the way employees learn.

4. Trends in Employee
Training
- The Science of Learning
- The Importance of Learning Reinforcement
- Competency-Based Program Development
- Learning in The Cloud
- The Emergence of Video as the Dominant
Approach to Mobile Learning
- MicroLearning

5. Trend #1: The Science of Learning

6. Trend #2: The Importance of Learning
Reinforcement

7. Trend #3: Competency-Based Program Development

8. Trend #4: Learning in the Cloud

9. Trend #5: The Emergence of Video as the Dominant
Approach to Mobile Learning

10. Trend #6: MicroLearning

11. What current training trends are
impacting your organization?
Let us know in chat.

13. Case Studies of Mandatory and Elective
Training Programs
Mandatory Training Elective Training
Agriculture Professional Services Telecommunications Wholesale

14. Mandatory or Elective Training?
Mandatory
Elective
vs

15. Self-Directed & “Other-Directed” Learning

16. Self-Directed Learning or “YIN”
- Learner makes decisions
- Learner selects and carries out goals, objectives
methods and means
- Works for formal or informal approaches
- Encourages self-recognition

17. Other-Directed Learning or “YANG”
- Supervisors sending employees to
required compliance training
- Someone else sets goals and
evaluations
- Most recognized form of learning
- Generic to accommodate needs of most
learners
- Not everyone may need it
- Could include employee development

18. Formal Informal
Benefits of Formal and Informal Learning

19. Benefits of Formal Learning

20. Benefits of Informal Learning

23. Learner Engagement
Elective Directive
More engaged
Understands the power of knowledge
Risk: Content won’t be viewed
Get learner buy-in
Risk: Poor perception of required learning
from past experience

24. Suited For Which Type of Training
Just in Time
Training
Compliance
Training
vs

25. Learner Appreciation

26. Runway to Success

27. Bob Mosher Jane Hart Jay Cross Marcia Conner Roger Schank
The Experts Weigh In…

28. The Global Economy is Shifting
"At some point people, and by this I mean school boards, governments,
universities, and average citizens, have to get over the idea that there should
be any requirements at all in school."
- Roger Schank

29. The Case for Formal Training
- Reflect the real world
- Help employees know what they need to know
- Help achieve company goals

30. Which statement best describes your
organization’s learning strategy?
a) More Formal (Push) Learning
b) More Informal (Pull) Learning
c) 50/50 Balance Between Formal
and Informal

31. Yin
Yang
and

32. Informalizing the Formal
Formalizing the Informal

33. Use a Curated Playlist

34. Keep Score

35. Push Notifications

36. MicroLearning

37. Making the Case for MicroLearning
Decentralized
Workforce
On-demand
Access
Adapt to
Changing Needs

38. Use Social

39. Learning Reinforcement

41. The Forgetting Curve with Learning Reinforcement

42. Getting the Right Mix

43. Questions?

44. Key Takeaways
Informalizing Formal Learning
- Microlearning
- Book Club
- Add Reinforcement
Getting the Mix Right…. Yin/Yang
Formalizing Informal Learning
- Curated Playlists or Pathways
- Keep Score
- Push Notices

45. Video Course: Learning Retention Strategies

46. Interactive Video: Beginning Development for Training Programs

47. Try out these video lessons and
more!
Thousands of videos and unlimited access for your
employees.
www.bizlibrary.com/free-trial

48. Thank You
for joining us today.
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