High-Impact Learning Practices: The Guide to Modernizing Your Corporate Training Strategy through Social and Informal Learning is a ‘how to’ manual for learning managers to expedite the transformation from formal to informal learning.  This study contains data-driven research, best practices, tools, and examples to help adapt learning processes to the business realities, available technologies, and new learning styles of today.

While most learning executives realize that informal learning drives greatest impact and offers the greatest cost efficiencies, most learning organizations are still directing most of their budget dollars and resources to traditional formal training.  This study will help you transform your organization, identify and develop the disciplines and skills needed, and help you develop a practical roadmap to the modern world of learning.

The 347-page study, based on 798 qualified surveys and almost 50 interviews, as well as survey and interview data from other recent research, includes discussion on these and other important topics and tools: 

• The Modern Enterprise Learning Index.  This set of 12 indicators provides executives with a way to evaluate the readiness of their organizations to transition to the next-generation of corporate learning.  Five of the indicators focus on operational abilities, five focus on the outputs and relationships with business units served, and two focus on the learning culture of the enterprise.
  
• The Enterprise Learning Framework.  This graphical tool illustrates how the elements of any learning initiative interrelate.  Elements depicted (with examples) include learning programs, approaches, disciplines, tools and technologies, and culture. 
  
• Application of the High-Impact Learning Measurement Framework to informal learning.  Readers learn how to apply this framework, introduced in earlier research, specifically to informal learning. 

Readers will find case studies and examples of modern best practices from companies such as Symantec, Nationwide, Credit Suisse, Summa Health, British Telecom, Accenture, Bell Canada, and many more.  The study also includes a special section on handling obstacles and minimizing risks associated with this transformation.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to address common obstacles, such as lack of participation, fear of lost control, and new and unfamiliar technologies.
• How to measure informal learning.
• The skills you should be developing within your staff. 
• How to determine where to focus and how to prioritize.
• Cultural issues that can facilitate or impede success. 
• The role of tools and technologies.