What's the Secret Ingredient?
Everyone knows the three most important ingredients to have a successful restaurant right? You can have the best foods, the best run kitchen, the best and most polite service but without the secret ingredient your restaurant may fail, right? The secret ingredient of course is; location, location, location!
So what is the most successful ingredient for learning success?
So what is the most successful ingredient for learning success? Is it the content, the learning system, instructional design, e-learning, virtual classes, or the latest technology? Is it learning organization, processes, quality control, subject matter experts, or the best people with great instructional design capabilities? While all these ingredients are certainly important they may not be the secret ingredient. After all, how far will you get if you have great processes, or the best content but it is all leading to the wrong results? It would be something like a great set of ingredients but the wrong recipe, or not mixed properly or half baked! Or possibly not what was asked for…
So the secret ingredient or the overall recipe for learning has to be something that pulls all this together, ensures you are heading in the right direction and leads you to success. It’s the learning strategy. Like a recipe it should contain the list of ingredients needed with the necessary measures, how to apply and the expected outcome.
What would a learning strategy look like, and how or where do you begin? That will be the next topic I will be writing about, look for it soon…
In the meantime let me know what you think?
Comments
Identifying and aligning to the priorities of the business makes for an effective program. Strategically integrating the Learning capabilities into existing busines processes will make them less isolated, and more a part of the broader organizational efforts.
I believe this is the secret ingridient.
Any learning program created should address a defined competency, that are aligned to activities performed as part of a job, which ultimately are created to address specific business objectives.
Posted by: Praveen Kaushik | January 8, 2010 07:29 PM
I agree learning should be mapped with competency to measure success. The organization's learning culture or the taste (which way they like to learn) is also another factor to consider.
Posted by: Moushmi | February 5, 2010 05:15 PM