Abstract:

Many organizations wish to deliver impactful and rapid learning experiences at scale to accelerate cultural transformation, however are met with many challenges when designing and delivering them.

Delivering on impact, scale and speed simultaneously is a challenging endeavor. Whilst Speed and Scale can be delivered, such approaches often revert to compliance like knowledge dissemination with questionable impact.

Impact and Scale can be delivered through repetitive cohorts which are often the ‘go-to’ executive education program. Repetitive cohorts can be delivered in typical sizes of 30-50 managers per cohort often yielding measurable impact and enabling increased organizational coverage with each passing cohort, however this often happens over a protracted time period diluting organizational impact and risking that ‘organizational memory’ is lost.

Impact and Speed can be delivered, however these tend to be programs delivered in targeted once off interventions such as with top teams. Whilst extremely effective for the participants involved, such programs typically represent a ‘drop in the ocean’ for the organization leading to solid impact for individuals or their immediate team, but little organizational change.

In this presentation I will share empirical examples of successful design and delivery of simultaneous impact, speed and scale and share key learnings and design principles for practitioners.

We will look at how to re-calibrate outdated notions of instructional design –challenging what is and inspiring what could be– and approach design with a customer-centric approach which transcends the typical pedagogical paradigms.

Keywords:

Impact, Scale, Speed, Learning, Transformation, Culture Change, Democratizing Learning.