Dear HR, Training and L&D teams,
3 Tips - The Future of how to
design Trainings for Millennials
I was early at TGV Movies over the weekend sitting
with my kids and waiting for our cartoon movie to begin. To my amazement,
out of 10 advertisements, 9 of them was involving the mobile phone. Example
HSBC was advertising their Master Card but involved the phone as a medium of
the advertisement. This had me thinking of what will be the future of
training, if we HR, Training and L&D folks keep on doing the same ‘old’
traditional ways of training. How can we make use of ‘THE SMART PHONE’ as
a medium in our workshops?
Here are fundamental steps for you to take action with
your expert internal trainers and external trainers.
- Make your training mobile ready. Example if you are training on
a subject titled Creativity, you can have your trainer to ‘google’ certain
brain game apps that has creative playing . During one of the
modules, get your participant to take out their phone, download the ‘FREE
App’ and play. After that of course, ensure your trainer debriefs
them on the learning outcome.
- Gamification is another way of engagement through phone, however this
would require you to partner with gamification experts that can inculcate
this playing together’ into the workshop. This is of course not FREE.
- Personalized Learning – You can ‘pull’ whatever you need from any
videos online and download this on You Tube. Example, Ted Talks – have so
many videos that can be relevant to research, brainstorming and
jokes. Download this videos, and place this on your drive.
Send the drive link to each of their email and ask them to view this
videos from phone. (of course make sure the file size is not too
heavy’.
If you are still worried, if this can work, take a
look at this table, a research we found online and see why learning strategies
needs to be different.
TRADITIONALISTS
|
BABY BOOMERS
|
GENERATION X
|
MILLENNIALS
|
|
BIRTH YEARS
|
1900-1945
|
1946-1964
|
1965-1980
|
1981-1996
|
Assets
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· Experience;
· Dedications;
· Loyalty;
· Emotional maturity
|
· Service oriented;
· Dedication;
· Team perspective;
· Experience
|
· Adaptability;
· Techno-literacy;
· Independence;
· Willing to buck the system
|
· Collective action;
· Optimism;
· Ability to multi-task;
· Techno-savvy
|
Liabilities
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· Reluctant to buck the system;
· Uncomfortable with conflicts
|
· Not necessarily budget minded;
· Uncomfortable with conflicts
|
· Sceptical;
· Distrustful of authority;
|
· Need for supervision and structure;
· Inexperience
|
Motivations
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· Connecting their actions to the
overall good of their organization
|
· Leaders who get them involved
and show them how to make difference
|
· Permission to work on their own
schedule
|
· Connecting their actions to
their personal career goals
|
Preferred
Methods of Communications
|
· Written
|
· Verbal;
· Personal interaction
|
· Voice mail;
· Email
|
· Instant messages;
· Text messages;
· Email
|
Until
our next reading article
TLMM
Quote for August 2018: Its’ Time To Do Something
Different. Plug into the System & Make the Change for your Learners
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