Day 3 - Perspectives from the sidelines

It was another insightful day at Perspectives.

What's Trending in the Talent and Learning Industry
Morne Stewart, VP Global Product Strategy,  kicked off the morning with the HR Mojo. It is time to think and act on your people strategy. We need to be agile and effective. We can't afford for our onboarding programs to take 43 days to complete, we need to reach them remotely and have the program completed within 3 days.
Morne also shared a key equation for something we all seek: ENGAGEMENT

PURPOSE + MASTERY + AUTONOMY = EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

To do so it is important to create the channels to enable our employees to grow. Give them access to an environment that is individualized, purposeful, available, and relevant. If they can't find what they are looking for in 7 seconds they will move on.
@johnjambrose summarized it well in this tweet "The Self-Developing Organization is about knowing our users, enticing, improving & rewarding them! #perspectives16"
In closing, Morne stated "Vision without execution is hallucination" - (he might have even done a magic trick or two :-) )
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Panel Discussion with Scott Farley, Priti Shah, Kellye Whitney, Noelle Gill, William Tincup
Moderator: Christa Manning
Topic: Demanding or Developing Diversity - The Modern Employment Marketplace Dilemma

Key concepts that resonated from this discussion:
- If you are in the business of leadership, you are in the business of culture
- Need more focus on developing women leaders
- Forego the unconscious biases, build your personal brand and advocate for a supportive culture of diversity
- Diversity creates friction. You need friction, which will create discussion, disruption and failure  in order to create innovation and drive business results (increase market share)

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Innovation Award Part II

• Sandi Wilson from Vectren - Talent Development Champion of the Year
• Mercy - Creating an Impact: IT Skills and Development
• Apex - Creating an Impact: Extended Enterprise 
• Tata Consultancy Services - Program of the Year 

Honorable mentions go out to:

• Barry Waite, CHRO at Air Force for Talent and Development
• Graham - Program of the Year

Congratulations to all!
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Peter Diamandis, keynote speaker and live event : Achieving Innovation and Breakthroughs

I will have to listen to the recorded session when it's made available to our clients, but here are some of the most popular tweets:

• @kellyewhit  @PeterDiamandis: The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities 
• @johnjambrose To become a billionaire, help a billion people. The world's biggest problems = the biggest opportunities. 
• @nicolecwong To disrupt your co, need to hire people who embrace experimenting, iterating, failing, and applying their lessons learned. 
• @gshunter "Every company should be creating Xprize incentives" yes, AND recognize nurturing progress and purpose are best motivators 
• @srodeman Passion, curiosity and grit! Requirements for continuous learning and agility 

 READ:
- Abundance: The Future is Better than You Think
- Stone Soup.
Yes. Peter Diamandis refers to this children's book as the best MBA book you'll ever read.

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Mix n' Match Workshops
Let's not forget the amazing workshops led by our clients and team of specialists

I have a feeling our Skillsoft Client Communities we will be seeing a lot more activities and peer-to-peer collaboration.

All the information and memorable pictures are available here


See you next year!

Day 2 - Skillsoft Perspectives highlights from the sidelines

Skillsoft CEO, Bill Donoghue kicked off day 2 with some key innovation announcements for 2016. He states "our job is to make beautiful technology with engaging content.." with that in mind, Skillsoft is updating its content delivery platform and launching Skillport 8i and developing a brand new delivery platform "ARTISAN" that is targeted to be released in February 2017.

Skillsoft is also dedicated to refreshing its business and leadership courseware collections and in rewiring itself for the Millenial generation.
Finally, with a tag line such as "Putting the human back into HR" Skillsoft is expanding with a new talent suite with recruiting and onboarding modules.
Read the Press Release

Keynote speaker - Heidi Grant Halvorson
Heidi Grant Halvorson was the guest keynote speaker and spoke about the benefits of a get better mindset. this session was all about creating a psychological environment where agility and innovation are possible. We need to compare ourselves today to our past as opposed to always comparing ourselves with others - changing the mindset. @joeStoup said it best in this tweet "The Get Better mindset occurs when you compare yourself today to yourself yesterday. Not you against others."
She described the mindset cycle and anxiety being a performance killer.@johnjambrose tweets "Anxiety shrinks processing part of the brain and makes difficult to connect thoughts and comments".  It is time to change your mindset - awareness will help you to shift to "I'm not good at this YET. Mantra for self-development."

Up next was Part I of the Innovation Awards
 Congratulations to all

• Leslie Positeri and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for winning Creating an Impact: Leadership Development award
• Navigant for winning the award for Thinking Big: Small and Medium Businesses
• Capgemini for winning Continuous Talent Development award.
• Eaton for award Empowering Talent Development: Honorable Mention  
• Newalta for winning Compliance and Ethics Excellence awar
• Hill International for winning Honorable Mention in Compliance and Ethics Excellence 
• University of California for winning Creating an Impact: Higher Education award. 
• Manitoba Hydro for winning Creating an Impact: Government and Nonprofit award 

Leadership Development with UPS
UPS created a new equation for leadership development (S+E)P where
S= Skills  E = Experience and P = Passion
An employee's passion will exponentially increase their skills and experience



 

Well.. Perspectives has officially started and it looks like day 1 workshops were all about purpose, passion, Leadership and the Self-Developing Organization. If you want to know more about how Cap Gemini implemented its leadership program take a look @nicolecwong tweets.

Skillsoft's annual Perspectives conference kicks off this afternoon! Although I won't be attending in person this year, I created this site to keep track of all they moments and announcements.