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25 Ways to Support Social Learning in Your Organization

Mark Britz — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Boost your organization’s adaptability and resilience intoday’s fast-moving, hybrid work environments with our new checklist, 25Ways to Support Social Learning in Your Organization, by Mark Britz, authorof Social By Design: How to Create and Scale a Collaborative Company. In an erawhere knowledge sharing and continuous learning are paramount, thiscomprehensive resource equips you with proven strategies to navigate thechallenges of rapid change, distributed work, and talent growth and retention.Discover how social learning can augment formal training, unlock innovativesolutions to sticky problems, and enhance connection in highly dispersed teams.

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Overcoming Organizational Design Barriers for Effective Social Learning

Mark Britz — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

In 2022-23, social learning and collaboration jumped nearthe top of Donald Taylor’s Global Sentiment Survey again. This is no surprisegiven the renewed focus on new ways of working during the COVID-19 pandemic.The modern work environment requires a shift to social first approaches yet ourvery organizational systems and design can hinder connection and collaboration!How do you support efforts to change the rules people operate under and wheredo you start? L&D, technology, and leadership all have a role to play, butthey might not be what you’ve been told or come to expect. In this session,you’ll learn the importance of approaching performance challenges with a socialfirst mindset, examine the required shift from content creation to conversationcreation, and the challenges faced when moving from instructional design toorganizational social design.

In this session you will learn:

How a social-centered learning function benefits L&D, the organization, and can empower your enterprise social technology.
To isolate the specific elements of organizational design that indirectly influence social behaviors.
To leverage a catalytic mechanisms approach to enhance your organizations design and make it more conducive for social connection

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Creating a More Social Organization to Build a Learning Organization

Mark Britz — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Efforts at increasing collaboration in organizations arestill plodding along. Social technology for many workers is just one more thingto check, and top-down leadership efforts gain little traction. The “continuouslearning” organization seems unattainable.

For learning to become connected and continuous, we need toovercome the sociological and psychological barriers preventing workflowlearning at scale. This requires that we go up a level and challenge our veryorganizational designs in new ways.

In this session, we will look at the unconscious systems ofwork that may be working against knowledge sharing. We’ll discuss the long-heldbeliefs and biases that atrophy workers and leaders alike, preventing realgains in connection and collaboration. Finally, we will examine the threemaxims that are key to creating organizational social by design.

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LeaderChat: Social by Design with Mark Britz & James Tyer

Mark Britz — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 04:00:00 +0000

What does collaboration mean in your organization? How do you facilitate collaboration, measure its effectiveness, or inspire people to connect? Authors Mark Britz and James Tyer share insights from their new book and challenge you to look at the context, the work, and the systems that guide people every day.

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Monthly Meeting: Building a Coaching Strategy

Mark Britz — Wed, 19 May 2021 04:00:00 +0000

A number of key elements are required to execute an effective coaching strategy. During this month’s Alliance Meeting, our panel of guests will explore how to build and launch a successful coaching initiative, including how to overcome common hurdles and tips on how to get people on board.

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Building a More Collaborative Organization: What, How, and Why Now

Mark Britz — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:00:00 +0000

A recent survey by Innovisor, a Social Network Analysis(SNA) company, revealed that collaboration has gotten 30 percent worse duringthe pandemic. It’s becoming more apparent that merely having social technologyand enabling its use is not enough. Without an organizational level focus oncollaboration, the continuous learning, creative problem-solving, andinnovation needed to overcome today’s challenges is at risk.

In this session you’ll learn what a collaborativeorganization looks like to better assess the state of collaboration in yourown. We’ll discuss how greater transparency and openness extends and expandsformal and informal learning opportunities, and what role L&D must play toenable these critical elements of collaboration. Finally, we’ll examine thetechnology useful in supporting collaboration and the importance of culture inmaximizing its potential.

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2018 Realities360 Conference

Mark Britz — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 05:00:00 +0000

2018 Realites360 Conference gives you the unparalleled opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of augmented reality, virtual reality, and simulations for learning. You’ll experience these emerging learning technologies for yourself and engage in conversations with leaders from our community to put those experiences into the context of your work.

Discover what these new realities mean to you and let’s create the future together this June 26 – 28 in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose, California.

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