THE NEW FACE OF CORPORATE

EDUCATION

No Executive

Left Behind

By Bob Snyder

The average person spends 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime*.

*Source: Happiness at WorkPsychology Today

Each year the average American spends over 100 hours commuting*.

*Source: US Census Bureau

In the United States, workers take an average of 57% of their vacation days. This means most of us voluntarily give up almost 50% of the

time off we're legally allowed so we can continue to work instead*.

*Source: Reuters/Ipsos study

25% of people check into work hourly while on vacation, via email and phone. 59% say they check work even during family

holidays*.

*Source: USA Today, Xobni survey via CNN Money

Corporate Education

No longer “just job training”

Corporate Education

Education Time

Knowledge changes

e.g., Pluto, no longer one of our planets…

The Aging BrainTeaching new facts should not be the focus of adult education. Instead, you need to “bump up against people and ideas” that are different.

Deborah M. Burke, a professor of psychology at Pomona College

Researchers Found Positive News

The brain can continue to build pathways that help its owner better recognize patterns. Mid-age persons can see significance and even solutions much faster than a young person can.

Businesses already discovered this on their own…

MOBILE

Social Media

CLOUD

VIDEO

Video Conferencing

THE PERFECT STORMThe convergence of mobile, cloud, and video create

new opportunities for enterprise learning

The Rise of Mobile Devices

The Impact of Video

It would take an individual more than 5 million years to watch the amount of video that will cross

global IP networks each single month in 2018.

Source: Cisco VNI 2013

More Real-time Video…

Infonetics reports on the growing use of video in the enterprise, noting 87% of companies plan to incorporate video into their unified

communications by August 2014.

Here Comes The Cloud

Tech Creates New Reasons and New Ways to Educate Staff

Learning: “light, desirable, and fun.”

Adidas Group Learning Campus replaced

classroom-only training programmes with social and interactive online-

learning offerings, which are open to everybody

and accessible 24/7.Matthias Malessa

Chief Human Resources Officer Adidas Group

…from the retail trend of Pop-Up stores and created “Learning Pop-Up Kits,” to be the physical embodiment of the New Way of Learning.

Adidas “New Learning”

• Working is learning and learning is working

• Shift to an open and collaborative, connected, “social” learning environment

• Leadership means sharing, teaching, and learning

• Innovation is part of everybody’s daily work

• Create a new culture of self-driven life-long learning

IBM’s Corporate Services Corp.

This program increases IBM's understanding and appreciation of growth markets while creating global leaders who are culturally aware and possess advanced teaching skills.

IBM’s Stan Litow“I was Deputy Schools Chancellor of New York City Public Schools and Lou Gerstner hired me in 1993 to join IBM…he was looking for a strategy that was part and parcel of the company’s transformation strategy….”

Mr. Litow helped devise IBM’s Corporate Service Corps, a corporate version of the Peace Corps, to train and deploy thousands of IBM’s future leaders…

Does Business Learn from Education?

• Of course. Always has.• New: there are some

things to learn from business.

• Also it’s a Two-Way Street, admittedly with curves and cul-de-sacs

The New Face of Corporate Education

• It’s Innovative• It’s Video• It’s Social Media• It’s Mobile• It’s Ubiquitous

It’s WORKING.

No Executive Left Behind

Thanks for

Listening.

What’s wrong with being another brick in a wall, if it’s a good wall and made for a good reason?