What is Learning Acceleration?

What is Learning Acceleration – 2019? Today, we see a lot of leaders talk about learning acceleration, and I thought it’d be helpful to spend a few minutes thinking about this, in depth. How do you define “Learning Acceleration”? Having been a physicist, I need to say that learning acceleration involves a time component, and it should be properly defined as the how fast the learning velocity changes. But that is not really transparent and best understood with an example: it’s fairly obvious that human beings learn new things very fast as children and as they grow older, learning slows down. So let’s stick with something more understandable: how fast you learn new things. That should suffice. Note that the learning doesn’t necessarily have to be one dimensional – for example, acceleration in sales techniques, etc. Learning is in general, multi-dimensional. In today’s world, multi-dimensional learning is just as important as learning something very deep. More and more disciplines like biology, physics, chemistry, math, computing, geology, environmental sciences etc. require learning in multiple disciplines to arrive at a deeper understanding of natural phenomena. Why is “learning acceleration” important? Learning Acceleration has become important with the rate of technological changes afoot. Learning acceleration has always been important from time immemorial. It has been the difference between leaders and others i.e., leaders need to learn faster to be at least on par with their peers, if not ahead. But “Learning Acceleration” has also become important for companies to think about and start to worry about. One way to calibrate learning for an organization is to take the Learning Culture Survey (LCS) periodically and measure movements – say for teams, departments and organizations as a whole. How do you “accelerate learning”? We’ll visit this topic in my next blog topic as this is a whole field in itself. In the meantime, it will be helpful if you could share how you are accelerating learning in your organization.. I look forward to your thoughts and comments. Balasubramanian Krishnan, Ph.D. Explore our thought leadership Similar articles on learning management Top 10 Must-Have Features You Should Look for in Your July 26, 2021 Top 10 features LMS Read more How a Learning Management System can help the BFSI industry July 26, 2021 BFSI industry Read more 10 Key aspects to look in a Learning Management System August 3, 2021 10 key aspects-2019 | Feature-3 Read more

Are your teams competitive enough in today’s world?

Are your teams competitive enough in today’s world? Most organizations spend considerable sums of money training their sales teams and leadership teams , for good reasons. They want them to stay competitive and successful. More importantly, such teams need to be learning continuously to stay competitive. Therefore, a key question arises: How do we know that such teams are learning continuously? As a Learning company, NuVeda is committed to learning always for its own benefit and for the benefit of its customers as well. To understand organizational learning better, we came up with a diagnostic that measures the learning of an organization across 3 dimensions: a) the organization as a whole; b) the teams in the organization, and c) the individual. There were three basic outcomes of this effort 1) We were able to capture a Learning Culture Metric (LCM) for our organization. This is a number between 1 and 10, and allows you to benchmark with other organizations or teams within a company. If you are interested in finding out the LCM for your organization, please contact us here. 2) We discovered that in order to increase the LCM by 10% we had to do a considerable amount of work across multiple dimensions. 3) We realized that we need a more continuous way of growing learning in our company, and created a unique social learning ecosystem called GOL that has the following traits: Learning, Accountability, Excellence, Feedback Culture, Recognition and Data Centricity, all tied to a Gamified Leaderboard. We tried it, and within 3 weeks, we saw learning increase multi-fold across diverse topics. For example, our teams shared learning across multiple disciplines: sales, technology, health and wellness, planning, software development practices and more. We were able to identify how our teams learn, the breadth and depth of learning, as well as identify team members who are learning accelerators and facilitators. If GOL is of interest to you, please contact us here. We are now accepting the first 10 companies who wish to engage in a pilot with us. (1) – The sales training market is estimated to be in excess of $2.5B worldwide. Source: Training Industry Reports. Explore our thought leadership Similar articles on learning management 10 Key aspects to look in a Learning Management System August 3, 2021 10 key aspects-2019 | Feature-3 Read more The Google of Learning – Part I Dr. Balasubramanian Krishnan August 1, 2021 Feature-1 | google of learning Read more The Google of Learning – Part III Dr. Balasubramanian Krishnan July 26, 2021 google learning3 Read more