Because COVID-19 halted all in-person gatherings, getting behavioral change from our workforce is now mostly picked up by digital delivery to build capabilities and remote learning.
The key challenges faced by executives in delivering capability development initiatives digitally at a distance are:
1. Many organizations fail to see their online training succeed.
Static videos, “try again” assessments, and pass/fail metrics, and online learning couldn’t achieve the same behavioral change that in-person and on-the-job capability-building programs bring to trainees.
Remote-learning experiences could not fully inspire employees for the consistent application of those new skills, so that behaviors—and performance—ultimately improve.
2. Cost and time pressures provide extra challenge for companies to bring about change.
Whether its your intention is to build technical expertise or enable fundamental mindsets and behaviors required by every employee to do their job better, it was easy for these trainings to lose sight of focus on what the company really needs to active recovery.
3. Difficulties arise on driving the right kinds of behaviors among midlevel and frontline leaders.
Behavioral changes and skills learned by a select few could not cascade to the entire organization as effortlessly as they did in the past. But the beauty of an online delivery of capability development is its scalability.
The pandemic accelerates the need to adopt and innovate with digital tools.
Some of things you must consider your processes, technology and people strategies when developing your digital capability playbook:
1. Focus your online trainings on your most important organizational objectives.
If you are having to decide between two or three objectives in your online course, you wouldn’t have the time and wherewithal to do them all.
During this time of pandemic, the anxiety pressures are at large and take a lot of space in everyone’s psyche. Sticking to training sessions that is linked to actual business performance would spare you from re-doing countless training sessions that don’t have expedited positive impact on your organization.
2. Focus on behavioral change, not knowledge mastery.
By adapting your training session after the science of shifting mindset: where interventions could be designed to activate and strengthen different mindset neural connections—it would set up your capability development strategy to succeed from the get-go.
It could be by preparing bite-sized how-to-do videos of specific work tasks and asking your trainees to record a video on how they did it.
After which provide rewards and reinforcing strategies for changed behaviors.
3. Design your sessions with more interactivity than content.
Long-winded presentations do not work in real-life, more so when your audience would rather attend to a pot roast left boiling in the kitchen.
Science suggests that all it takes is 5-20 minutes a day, and in the matter of weeks, you will have rewired your brain to process your world more effectively.
When you focus on useful, yet constant short bite interactions on actual tasks and approaches to doing work better, this would have a better impact on your bottomline and processes and provide the fuel to even innovate your capability strategy fit for the pandemic work context.
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