Learning and Organizational Development Updates: May 2024
Leading Through Change
Leading change requires uniting people and creating experiences that unveil new possibilities. Change is always happening and effective team leadership means managing teams through the ongoing transition processes that facilitate change. Identifying and removing obstacles that can hinder the productive teamwork required to make these transition processes smooth is essential.
Here are a few strategies you can employ to support effective and long-lasting change:
- Be open, honest, and transparent about changes impacting your team.
- Listen to understand the factors creating resistance for your team to embrace the change.
- Identify and overcome obstacles preventing change from taking place.
- Adjust team goals to align yourselves with the change.
Continue exploring this topic with the following resources handpicked for you:
READ: Leadership for a Fractured World- How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change
WATCH: Leading Your Team Through Change
LISTEN: Leading Change- How Successful Leaders Approach Change Management
World Economic Forum Skill of the Future: Resilience, flexibility, and Agility
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Job’s Report has identified 10 important skills that will be needed to succeed in your career by the year 2030. This month, we highlight resilience, flexibility, and agility.
By developing these qualities, businesses and individuals can position themselves to succeed in the rapidly evolving marketplace and maintain a competitive edge.
Resilience, flexibility, and agility are all important qualities for businesses to cultivate in order to stay competitive and adapt to changing circumstances. As you begin to think about this topic, here are some things to consider:
- How can you balance the need for resilience, flexibility, and agility?
- What are some challenges of building resilience, flexibility, and agility and how can you overcome them?
- How can you measure and track the effectiveness of your resilience, flexibility, and agility over time?
Ready to dive in and further develop your ability to adapt, overcome, and achieve? Get started by taking the skills benchmark, or accessing one of the handpicked assets provided above.
NEW! Updated Learning Administrator webpage and directory
Area Learning Administrators are your first point of contact for training-related assistance. With a robust library of resources, including the Learning Administrator Community, and LOD, your area Learning Administrator has all the necessary tools to provide insight, basic Percipio troubleshooting, reporting, and completion confirmations, as well as assign area and role-specific training.
In March, LOD launched a new resource tool, making it easier for learners to locate and identify their area Learning Administrator. Since then, the small but mighty LOD team has been diligently working on a redesigned webpage dedicated to area Learning Administrators filled with information, resources, and guides.
Unsure who your assigned Area Learning Administrator is? Utilize our new Learning Administrator Directory on the Learning Administrator webpage.
Unable to locate a Learning Administrator for your area? Learn more about the role, responsibilities, and how to become one with the support of your leadership.
Content Credit: Carey Musburger, Learning & Organizational Development Assistant