What I learnt at the CLO Spring Symposium 2016
I’ve had a fantastic few days at the Chief Learning Officer Spring Symposium in Amelia Island, Florida.
There were some great keynotes, breakouts and panels and lots of great conversations so I wanted to share with you some of the highlights from this 3 day learning event.
I’ve listed the top level highlights below but you can check out the 5 minute video above for more detail.
- The different ways that people change habits from Gretchen Rubin – loved her session – blogs to come on this in the near future I’m sure!
- It was fascinating comparing learning in start ups to learning in enterprise organisations.
- Measurement, analytics, and big data were all key themes at the event. Good session from Ernst & Young on this. Importance placed on the role of culture within this.
- A lot of talk around leadership. Jeffrey Pfeffer was one of the keynoters on this, he challenged everyone on the appalling spend on leadership training at the moment, vs. the actual change that we get. High on the research and data but light on the “how to” though!
- Great insights from the CLO of Accenture about the changes to their performance reviews, pull learning vs. push learning, and finding a balance between time to learn vs. learning all the time.
- Interesting views on authenticity in learning and leadership change
- Final session was a “Family Feud” style panel! Interesting discussion around issue of titling Talent Development vs. Talent Excellence vs. Learning etc.. I was pleased that behavioural change came on to that agenda and the relevance of it to learning.
Very excited to have been at the CLO Symposium, and look forward to sharing more blogs on my learnings from this event –watch this space!