Workshop: Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer

On Tuesday, November 10, Clark Quinn and I will be leading a workshop entitled Be the Future of Organizational Learning: Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer in San Jose. It’s an all-day event in the Atherton Room of the San Jose Fairmont. We have four seats left. For your $495, you get breakfast, lunch, refreshments, a certificate, and Clark & Jay. Such a deal.

Organizational pressures are increasing: things move faster, resources decrease, and disruptive changes are more frequent. The ability to predict, develop, and equip people for their tasks is becoming less likely. Increasingly, organizations are requiring greater personal responsibility for problem-solving and innovation. We hear informal learning is important, but what does that mean concretely? What is a learning organization to do – and how can technology help? The answer is not to think of equipping everyone a priori with specific knowledge, but instead to empower them to help themselves and one another. The role of the learning organization is shifting to one that creates a supportive environment, rich with infrastructure and nurturing productive activities. In short, it’s a meta-learning role, integrating a variety of elements into a coherent whole.

This workshop will make the case for a more agile organization, and discuss what that means in very specific terms, covering skills, culture, and technology. Participants will see case studies of successful interventions, tools and their roles, and how the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. You’ll work through systematic steps, alternatives, and organizational outcomes and metrics to consider so you are equipped to finalize and begin implementing a plan to take yourself to the next level in organizational learning.

In this session, you will learn:

* Why innovation and problem-solving will be the differentiators, going forward
* What informal learning means concretely
* The issues you’ll face in trying to move forward, and ways to address them
* The components of an informal learning strategy