Five Key Shifts in Corporate Learning for 2021

Corporate learning is undergoing a paradigm shift as organizations adapt to new ways of working and doing business, in response to the cascade of public health, economic, and social crises that were either caused or exposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
These events have triggered an accelerated digital transformation of learning that goes beyond simply delivering content electronically. Approaches to online learning are evolving quickly as learning and training leaders align more closely with business owners and take on new responsibilities for employee engagement, well-being, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Although we are not yet fully aware of all the transitions organizations will need to make to adapt to an ever-changing environment, several adaptations to how business works look likely to stick, with considerable implications for the scope and operations of corporate learning.
In 2020, only 52% of organizations rated themselves technologically ready for corporate learning that supports remote workers.
Corporate learning and training have long been correlated with engaged workforces.
Together, these overlapping shifts suggest a new mandate for corporate learning to systematically cultivate organization-wide capabilities that shape and renew corporate culture. For organizations to develop the capabilities they need to innovate in increasingly complex and distributed environments, individuals at all levels need to learn with and from each other. As a result, organizations are increasingly turning to the power of social and collaborative learning technologies to cultivate cultures of learning, establish connections between learners and experts, and drive learner engagement. Effective learning does not happen in isolation.
Effective learning does not happen in isolation.
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