COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, has become a public health emergency of international concern. The learning and development community certainly isn’t immune. With leaders announcing the shutdown of workplaces and office spaces, learning leaders are faced with a major challenge: How do we sustain learning and development efforts in the face of remote work, immediate business pressures and more?
The answer lies in having a flexible plan for learning, employee engagement and development, as well as resilient leadership. Here’s your source of insights and information from the L&D community.
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Leading in an uncertain world: How business executives can adapt
– As business leaders, we need to consider the best ways to navigate the constantly changing business landscape and support our employees while growing our companies. Here are five ways to do so.
Supporting healthier minds through learning and development
– L&D teams have helped to alleviate some of the stress and anxieties people are feeling as their organizations grapple with pandemic-related changes and challenges.
Preparing for what we can’t predict: Using scenario planning to support L&D investment decisions
– Uncertainty can’t mean “we do nothing until we know.” Using a tool such as scenario planning, L&D leaders can anticipate and consider what we would do if X or Y came to pass, and what enablers or capabilities would be required to mitigate the worst and optimize the best of that situation.
Shining a light on workforce mental health and wellness
– Due to the extreme challenges brought on by the pandemic, many organizational leaders are resolute in adopting new measures aimed at supporting mental health and wellness in the workplace.
Video: The power of leading with vulnerability and compassion
– The stress, anxiety and uncertainty over the past year have steered workplaces away from wanting strict, aggressive and “traditional” forms of leadership. In 2021, people desire leaders with compassion who are unafraid of showing vulnerability.
Skill data: the secret to your 2021 L&D strategy
– Person-centricity is often the key to a smart learning strategy. L&D is, after all, deeply personal. Leveraging your skill data can help you personalize your learning to all workers.
How leaders can reframe failure in a post-pandemic world
– The key to building a culture in which failure is seen as a learning experience and strategic risk-taking is both encouraged and rewarded is to remain consistent in your approach.
Old habits die hard, but good leaders can change
– In a way, habits are like shortcuts, and that can make them very efficient. The problem is, when everything else is changing around you, there’s a good chance old habits no longer apply.
6 competencies leaders need to develop right now
– As organizations try to define the future leaders they will need, some key themes around meet-the-moment capabilities emerge. These capabilities cannot be developed overnight, but this list of 6 key competencies may help stimulate your thinking as you look to refresh your leadership strategy.
Video: Where does virtual learning and development go from here?
– As organizations head into 2021, L&D is more important than ever, says Asfa Malik, who is the vice president of learning and development at Addison Group.
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Getting hybrid work right
– With careful consideration, talent managers can balance employees’ needs while keeping engagement high in remote work environments.
COVID-19 didn’t challenge managers, it exposed them
– The remote workforce exposed managers’ lack of skills necessary to lead teams in any environment.
The ideal worker for the new workforce
– A distributed workplace can better respond to the way people interact with their work and removes barriers for workers from diverse backgrounds or whose lifestyle doesn’t fit the traditional worker mold. The benefits to employers are vast, but to access these benefits, you must reconsider what your ideal worker looks like.
In the current remote and virtual environment, AR presents opportunities for learning
– Augmented reality can enable users to learn, engage and experience new material at their convenience and pace and from their work location, whether that is at home or in the workplace.
6 ways executive education will never be the same
– Spoiler alert: It’s actually going to get better.
Note to men: Mentor her! (Yes, even during a pandemic)
– There are a number of strategies for leveraging telementoring to deliberately engage in crucial developmental relationships with women.
How to make remote leadership development work for your business
– Shifting to leadership development through digital platforms is a critical element of successfully making the new remote work environment effective while continuing to focus on your leadership initiatives.
Work-from-home skills for leaders of team development
– 5 ways to build a strong remote team and fuel professional progress.
Building stronger leaders through volunteerism and mentorship
– Philanthropy and volunteerism can help us navigate seemingly impossible situations and focus on silver linings — something we can all benefit from at a time like this.
How to best run your remote meetings
– Tim Weerasiri, CFO of TeleSign, offers best practices and valuable tips for running efficient remote meetings and shifting to a new way of work.
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A robust response to what COVID-19 revealed: a path to resilience and inclusion
– Build the capabilities that will make your organization resilient and inclusive by challenging the structures, systems and processes that carry bad assumptions forward.
4 tactics to reflect and (re)charge into 2021
– The present and future of leadership and learning is about attention to “resilience as recharge.” Here are four ways to enhance daily recharge to boost learning and performance for both yourself and your team.
Why we must deliberately embed curiosity instead of conformity
– Our environment is complex and constantly changing, necessitating the intentional development of meta-skills to adeptly navigate it. Organizations and their leaders must dismantle engrained conventional frameworks and legacy thinking, conformist approaches, and inflexible systems and deliberately embed curiosity if they are to succeed in the VUCA world.
Losing a step is inevitable; losing the game isn’t
– Preparing leaders for change is necessary. So is assessing your team’s agility.
Video: The impact of mindfulness at work
– Mindfulness is a lifestyle change, says talent acquisition executive Christine Bedalow, founder and CEO of Talent Conscious. And during times of stress and uncertainty, mindfulness practices and meditations can help ease stress and anxiety.
Be kind to your brain (especially now)
– Stress levels are high, and understandably so. What does that mean for learning?
Don’t let workplace stress become distress
– Stress can quickly become distress when there is too much of it, too often or when it lasts too long. Here’s what CLOs can do to help improve employee well-being in the workplace.-
Don't let workplace stress become distress
– Stress can quickly become distress when there is too much of it, too often or when it lasts too long. Here’s what CLOs can do to help improve employee well-being in the workplace. 
Stressed, Pressed and Blessed
– With all the challenges, it’s easy to lose sight of just how special learning work is.
Stress and Learning
– Learning executives have a role to play in calming nerves and helping workers develop the resilience that drives higher performance.
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Make learning the foundation of hybrid workplace culture
– Changing behaviors to cultivate a new culture takes time and intention. When employees recognize that their organization values individual and collective growth, you’ll foster a learning-forward culture and gain commitment from all team members.
Case study: How EY brought its employees together with an online learning event
– In January, EY’s Tax & Law Days, its annual education event, took place at the NBC Congress Centre, the Netherlands. However, this year the event was entirely broadcast online. More than 2,100 tax and law professionals from 17 different countries attended various virtual sessions. Here’s how EY took the digital event experience to a higher level with an attention-grabbing theme and entertainment and managed to connect EY professionals, keeping them engaged with the proper content and visuals.
Designing virtual learning to deliver application and impact: 20 powerful techniques
– Executives want to know: Is virtual learning working? Rather, are participants using what they’ve learned to ultimately make an impact within the organization?
Case study: PepsiCo leverages Minecraft for Lean Six Sigma training
– Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an 11-year-old helped PepsiCo take its Lean Six Sigma training to the virtual world.
Are in-person workshops dead? How virtual learning can be as good as the real thing
– Consider these tips for live, instructor-led virtual workshops.
DAU: Becoming a modern learning platform in 2021 … it’s about the song!
– By the end of 2021, DAU plans to successfully transform into a platform that connects defense acquisition workforce members to all the resources they need with a high-quality, low-friction user experience.
Text-based learning: emerging from the pandemic as a must-have
– In the midst of the pandemic, some companies and government organizations have begun to leverage text-based learning as an essential and complementary part of their delivery methods.
Lessons for learning teams: what the pandemic has taught us
– Change tends to bring a mixture of brilliant opportunities and worrying realities. In times of crisis, there are those who get creative — and those who resolutely stick with what they know. Here’s what the pandemic has taught us about L&D.
Teaching the teachers: why online learning training will be crucial for higher ed talent prospects
– Colleges and universities have the opportunity now to invest in accelerated online learning training for their instructors.
Measuring the impact and ROI of virtual learning
– To secure the support and funding that virtual learning needs, programs must deliver business results. Here are 7 steps to design virtual learning to deliver a positive ROI.
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Free Services
– A curated list of resources created and hosted by members of the learning and development community in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Blogs, Data and Informative Pages
– A collection of blogs, vlogs and helpful tip pages created by members of the learning and development community in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Webinars and Virtual Classes
– A compilation of free online classes and modules created and hosted by members of the learning and development community in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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