I returned yesterday from my US trip to the American Society of Training and Development, International Conference and Exposition in Denver Colorado. It was a great conference. 9000 attendees, many of whom were from outside of the US.
I’ll be sharing on my blog learnings, insights and favourite speakers from the conference but firstly I’m excited to share with you a new service from our partners, Fort Hill Company, that was launched at the conference. Many of you will know Fort Hill Company as the Online Learning Transfer specialists – they are committed to helping people get better results from their learning. One of the key steps in learning is sharing your wins and they have create a very cool online tool that helps collect these success stories and through crowd sourcing from the group gets the best story selected. Once the wins and achievements are captured then it becomes easier to demonstrate the value of your initiatives.
They launched ‘We Achieve’ at the conference and created quite a buzz! Well done to Michael, Kathy, David and the team. Awesome work. The online tool was designed to help you showcase results from your initiatives by identifying your participants’ greatest achievements.
I love that with We Achieve you can:
- Ask participants to share their stories of achievement after an initiative
- Use wisdom of the group to identify the most compelling examples
- Have participants see and learn from each others’ achievements
- Demonstrate the value created by your programs and initiatives
Using the tool at the conference they asked attendees to share their greatest insight or learning from the conference, and then we were asked to vote on the most popular – The winning insight was:
“Our value as L&D professionals is to improve performance. If we are not achieving business outcomes we are not adding value.’
Wow – this was voted as the most powerful insight from the conference and how poignant is it? As Learning and Development professionals we want to be adding value and achieving business outcomes. It’s not about learning, programs, change, growth – the bottom line is achieving business outcomes. I love it!
Great work to the Fort Hill team for uncovering this gem and for creating a tool that can capture the stories and outcomes in a very easy fashion. I’m going to introducing the tool to my clients immediately. You can sign up for a free trial account now here –
Let’s get on board with ‘We Achieve’ and achieve and share those business outcomes –