A new twist on 70:20:10
“There is a serious gap right now in professional skill development for most organizations. The primary focus remains on learning compliance and control when it should be on activating employee development by facilitating learning curiosity and creativity. It’s a huge opportunity for companies to truly differentiate themselves and their organizations. 70-20 fills this gap by enabling employees to tap into the rich opportunities created by mobile and social technologies to put their learning and development into action any time and any place.”
– Kathy Granger, president of Fort Hill Company
The digital age we live in is shaking up the Learning & Development industry. It’s so exciting to see new and innovative learning solutions coming forth, going beyond what we’ve seen before.
Fort Hill Company, a specialist learning transfer firm based in the USA recently launched their new learning activation tool, 70-20.
It derives from the well-known framework 70:20:10, which describes how people learn in organisations. These days the majority of learning happens through workplace experience and social interactions, rather than in formal programs – so Fort Hill wanted to bring some intention to this focus on the 70-20 side of learning.
70-20 is a cloud-based tool aiming to ignite informal and social workplace learning, leveraging the presence of digital technology in the lives of today’s workforce. The app helps any level of employee to apply new skills while they work and share progress with their colleagues.
So how does it work?
“Users can create personal learning challenges at any time, work on formal challenges assigned during a training program or accept development challenges from their manager or team leader – all from their mobile phone, tablet or desktop. Improved performance can also be measured and tracked by a user’s manager or coach.”
70-20 promotes learning on the job in several ways:
- Workplace learning activation
- Anytime, anywhere interaction
- Collaborative multi-media storytelling
- Social learning made easy
- Visual, verifiable progress
- Data analytics
- SaaS-based model – no software installation necessary
It’s still early days for digital group learning platforms but how exciting to see where this leads us for on-the-job application of learning. It’s great to be both supporters and friends of the Fort Hill Company team. Take a look at what Kathy, Cal and team have created, and let us know how you think it could work for your team.
To learn more about 70-20 visit www.70-20.com.
