a case for electronic performance support systems (epss) in the post-training era
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A Case for Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) in the Post-Training Era. Lou Roberts Principal Christensen/Roberts Solutions. Tell Us About You. What attracted you to this session? Rate your background with EPSS Novice Know enough to be dangerous - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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A Case for Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) in the
Post-Training Era
Lou RobertsPrincipalChristensen/Roberts Solutions
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Tell Us About You
What attracted you to this session? Rate your background with EPSS
1. Novice2. Know enough to be dangerous3. Experienced, but not quite expert4. Expert
How many people come from a traditional training background?
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Food for Thought
What do studies show to be the percentage of formal learning that an employee can recall two weeks after the training?
a) 80%b) 50%c) 30%
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Food for Thought
What do studies show to be the percentage of formal learning that an employee can recall two weeks after the training?
a) 80%b) 60%c) 30%
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Food for Thought
How much time does the typical knowledge worker spend searching for knowledge needed to do his/her job?
a) Two hours per monthb) Two hours per weekc) Two hours per day
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Food for Thought
How much time does the typical knowledge worker spend searching for knowledge needed to do his/her job?
a) One hour per monthb) One hour per weekc) Two hours per day
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Food for Thought
Which represents the greater expense when using formal learning events to achieve competency?
a) The cost of developing and delivering the training
b) The cost of employee time spent in non-productive training activities
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Food for Thought
Which represents the greater expense when using formal learning events to achieve competency?
a) The cost of developing and delivering the training
b) The cost of employee time spent in non-productive training activities
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The Opportunity
Make more informed business decisions when formulating your performance improvement solutions that take into account:
a) Costs of sending employees to training (Opportunity Cost)
b) Costs associated with inefficiencies of traditional training
• Transfer / recall• Access to knowledge/information at the point-
of-performance
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So, what’s an Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS)?
Technology-mediated solutions to support any task or process, using a
performance-centered design approach
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Bridging the Gaps through Performance-Centered Design
Three Principles of Performance-Centered Design
1. Learning takes place in the context of the work that needs to be done
3. Determine whether learning should be an outcome at all
2. Learning happens as close to the point of performance as possible
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Performance Centered Design – Paradigm Shift
Learning is a prerequisite to doing
Consider learning and performance as one process
Focus on the worker’s skills/knowledge gap
Focus on the process (workflow)
Provide reference tools as adjuncts to traditional training
Integrate task-enabling tools and learning activities into the workflow
Before After
Primary focus is on what needs to be learned
Consider what, where, and when to learn
Engage learners through artificial motivation
Take advantage of moment of greatest receptivity
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Demos
IRS 1099r Real Estate Application Training Toolkit Salesforce.com Performance Toolkits
– Weather4Sailors – Selling Business Value– Training Toolkit
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New EPSS Tools
Quickly capture the workflow (if computer-mediated)
Efficiently create rich learning assets Deploy solutions within the live application Monitor user interaction within the live application
to provide the right support at the right moment Evaluate user inputs and therefore prevent
mistakes from being made All with minimal intervention from the IT
department
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ActiveGuide by RocketTools
No player, plug-ins or downloads Easily retrofits to existing web-based
applications and websites No need for re-engineering
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epiPlex by Epiance
Best Capture technology Cross-platform Cross-application
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How do you get started? – Best Candidates for EPSS
Processes that are largely computer-mediated
Processes for which best practices and expertise is readily available
Processes where best practices or consistency is preferred over creativity and personal style.
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Summary
Which is the more important goal for your organization?
a) Having highly-trained employeesb) Having employees who perform with a
high level of competence and productivity
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Summary
Which is the more important goal for your organization?
a) Having highly-trained employeesb) Having employees who perform with a
high level of competence and productivity
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Summary
Which represents a better investment for your organization:
a) Finding ways to create as much training as possible for the least amount of training investment?
b) Finding ways to enable employees to perform competently in as little training time as possible?
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Summary
Which represents a better investment for your organization:
a) Finding ways to create as much training as possible for the least amount of training investment?
b) Finding ways to enable employees to perform competently in as little training time as possible?
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Summary
As we go forward, where should we be looking to aim our interventions:
a) Formal learning events?b) The Point of Performance?c) Into the work itself?
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Summary
As we go forward, where should we be looking to aim our interventions:
a) Formal learning events?b) The Point of Performance?c) Into the work itself?
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“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
(Herbert Spenser)
Lou Roberts
Christensen/Roberts [email protected]
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EXTRA SLIDES
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Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is Becoming Standard Task Modeling Language
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What is the value of cost-cutting?
Companies spend .5 to 1 percent of their operating budget on training
If you reduce the budget by 10%, you can cut the operating budget by .05 to .1 percent.
Companies spend 70 percent of their operating budget on labor costs.
If you increase workforce performance by 5%, the top-line value increases by 5%.
Where will you get best value? Squeezing costs out of 1% of the operating budget, or increasing performance of the 70% of operating budget that goes to labor?
Source: ASTD’s 2004 State of the Industry report, Heidi Spirgi, CLO Magazine, September 2005
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Organizational Economic Climate
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Focused on CostControl
Focused on Growth
12 Months Ago
12 Months fromNow
Source: Conference Board surveyHeidi Spirgi, CLO Magazine, September, 2005
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Doing
Learning
Point of Performance
Before Performance
Wizards
Job Aids
Simulations
Manuals
Training Courses
Interactive Coaches
Workflow-based knowledge assets
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Doing
Learning
Point of Performance
Before Performance
Wizards
Job Aids
Simulations
Manuals
Training Courses
Interactive Coaches
Workflow-based knowledge assets
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Performance Hurdles
Workers in most American factories spend just 20 percent of their time making things.
Supervisors spend no more than 20 percent of their time doing things that appear in their job descriptions.
Knowledge workers spend just 20 percent of their time adding core value…
Jay Cross and Tony O’Driscoll “Workflow Learning Gets Real,” Training Magazine