Education, Innovation, and Progress in the WorkplacePresented by Jacklin Garcia

Why are we talking about this?

Greatest2%

Boomers25%

Gen X33%

Millennials35%

Gen Z5%

2017 U.S. LABOR FORCE

Why are we talking about this?

Why are we talking about this?

74%

66%

50% 50%

66% 66%

50% 49%

65% 64%

55%

42%

LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION COLLABORATION ROLE-SPECIFIC SKILLS

The most important skills for employees to learn

Talent Developers Managers Executives

Benefits of having a culture of learning

For the company

• Increased productivity

• Reduced employee turnover + engaged employees

• Smaller skills gap

• Enhanced company reputation

For the employees• Job satisfaction

• New skills for upward mobility

• Increased confidence

• More time to work on creative or innovative pursuits

CHALLENGES

“That’s not important right now”- Manny Jurr

“I don’t have time”- Jodah Veloper

“What’s the ROI?”- Vi Sprezz

“We don’t have the budget”- Bigbah Smann

“What’s going on?”- Mark Etting

What do we do?

• Onboarding

• Ongoing training

• Professional development opportunities

• Lunch and Learns

• Hackathon

Onboarding training: learn, collaborate, do

30 days 60 days 90 days

• Company training

• Product training

• Process documents

• Informational meetings

• Job aides

Just-in-time or ongoing job-specific training

• New product training

• Industry trends

• Coding communities/Stack Overflow

• Google/YouTube

Professional development: Preparing for the future

• Manager involvement is key!

• Set clear expectations

• Think employee growth

Lunch & Learns: Cultivating a learning culture

• Not role-specific

• 78% participation

• Topics from nutrition to investing

• Videos, guest speakers, and internal experts

Hackathon: Innovation pipeline

• 1 work day + 1.5 hours forpicking teams

• 7 new ideas prototyped

• 55% participation

• Reached 82% of company

The Hackathon Experience

• Projects

• Talent discovery

Talent discovery

• Leadership

• Collaboration

• Other skills

Fun!

Other things you can do

• Job shadowing

• Field trips to other offices

• Book club or lending library

• Professional organization memberships or meet-ups

• Pair programming

• Online classes through Coursera, Code Academy, or Pluralsight

Tips for starting your own program

1. Communicate!

2. Get employee input and feedback

3. Align training with management’s goals

4. Grow the culture

5. Measure results

6. Look for learning opportunities in everyday activity

7. Don’t forget about remote employees

How can we help support you?

• PSG can fill in your skills gap while you ramp up

• Training classes

• Augment your onboarding experience with our training materials

Who has the first question?

Education, Innovation, and Progress in the Workplace

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Resources2018 Workplace Learning Report:https://learning.linkedin.com/content/dam/me/learning/en-us/pdfs/linkedin-learning-workplace-learning-report-2018.pdf