Peer Learning, Loose - Tight & Competitive Learning: Deb & Ron Presenting at MI-SHRM, Traverse City | Reveln
Social Media is providing platforms to accelerate peer learning as a competitive advantage.
Here are two sample slides from our presentation tomorrow for the statewide MI-SHRM (Human Resources) conference, with more to be added as this blog post is updated after the presentation.
I'm heading up to Traverse City in just a few minutes. Tomorrow Ron Koller and I will be presenting on Loose - Tight: Peer Learning in an Era of Social Media Expansion and Information Overload.
Peer learning is a key aspect of many current e-learning business systems based in gaming and social media. The popular Geek Squad of Best Buy was started in a gaming community and has been central to its success.
Peer learning has also been around a long time, before this current age of systems thinking, complexity, and social media channels and hyper-communication.
A quote that illustrates it's classic nature:
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? ~ James Madison
and even:
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~ Bill Gates
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. ~ Jack Welch
MI-SHRM, for registered conferenced goers (registration is closed, the event is full!)
We'll be covering the elements of
- Peer Learning
- Social Media
- Talent Development / Talent Management
and demonstrating it using an open-space format where we'll learn from each other, MI-SHRM peers in action.
If you are new to Open Space, a great peer learning opportunity which instantly removes status and title barriers when launched, here's a few elements of this peer learning process to give you a taste of its usefulness:
Sample Open Space Guidelines
Start the topic you wish to work on. The person who posted the topic will be there and will begin the dialogue. You should use these guidelines in deciding how to behave.
- Hummingbirds: Feel free to flit from topic to topic.
- Bumblebees: Take ideas from one topic to another and cross pollinate.
- The rule of two feet: When the discussion is no longer of interest, use your two feet to move on.
Open Space principles
- Whoever comes are the right people.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
- Whenever it starts is the right time.
- When it’s over, it is over.
What is your experience of the benefits, and any distractors in peer learning?
