The challenges in onboarding the first digitally native generation; Why support and training needs to be smart and responsive, and how to cater to the EXPECTATIONS of this generation. Also describes Iridize step-by-step guides and walkthrough technologies.
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Bite Sized Training: Onboarding for Generation Y and Z
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About the speaker
• Name: Oded Ilan
• Studied Literature & Politics
• 4 years army command experience (+20)
• 5 years - high school teacher
• 19 years in start-up companies
• Partner and CMO @ Iridize
• What do I do? - I tell stories for a living
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Generation Y & Z - Definition
• Who are they ?
• Generation Y – “Millennials” (born 1982-2004)
• They are 20.. 25.. 30 today
• Generation Z – “Homeland” (1995 / 2005)
• Some of them have already joined the
workforce
William Strauss and Neil Howe
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Generation Y
"This tech-savvy, globally minded generation isn't
joining, buying, networking, learning, or engaging like
other generations.“
Knowing Y: Engage the Next Generation Now, by Sarah Sladek
• Natural Networkers
• Don’t like to be “sold to”
• Expect exceptional service
• Value customization
• Identified "digital natives" The Pew Research Center
Harvard Business Review & Sarah Sladek
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Generation Y
"This tech-savvy, globally minded generation isn't
joining, buying, networking, learning, or engaging like
other generations.“
Knowing Y: Engage the Next Generation Now, by Sarah Sladek
• Are driven by a desire to make a difference
• Expect remain faithful to a workplace
• 84% profess to be very ambitious
• 80% prefer on-the-spot recognition over formal reviews
• 78% comfortable with multicultural environments
Harvard Business Review & Sarah Sladek
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Their world
They were born into -
1995 1998 1999 2002 200919921991 19971993 2000 2001 2004 2005 2006 2007 20102003
Win95 google
Napster
Blogger
Friendsterbrowser
Widespread
Internet
Linux
Widespread
email
Wikipedia
PodCasts
digg
Flickr
Gmail
YouTube
twitter The
“Cloud”
Facebook
Myspace
Del.icio.us
Wi-Fi BlackBerry Android
digital
mobile
phone
Game Gear
Gameboy
Broadband
Gameboy
Light
Sony
PlayStation
Symbian
released
Sony PS2
Gameboy
Advance
iPod
Microsoft
Xbox
Nintendo DS
Portable
PlayStation
Xbox 360
Nintendo Wii
PlayStation 3
iPhone Kindle
iPad3G
Mbile
Accessibility
Constant Data
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Generation Y – They live their World
• Their world is – Internet, Digital, Accessible
• Process huge amounts of data
• Small bites all day long
• Ad-hoc activity - on the go
• Technology facilitates data
... So they expect technology to
• Be accessible
• Be easy to use
• Be responsive
• Be personal
• Have UI that “makes sense”
expect
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Generation Y in the workplace
• Digital natives
• Posting, tweeting, Instragramming
• Expect immediate feedback
• Creative way of seeing new technology
Lindsey Pollak
• 9% diagnosed with ADHD in US
• Short attention span
• ADD Generation – not clinical – action based
Dr. Marilyn Wedge / Tom Alderman
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• How do you transfer knowledge?
• How do you make sure the knowledge remains?
• Should the knowledge remain?...
Onboarding an ADD world
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• What I had learned when I was teaching them:
• Entertain
• Engage
• Relate
• Small bites
• Tell stories
……Don’t just teach – Train!
Teaching to an ADD world
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• What I had learned when I was teaching them:
• Entertain
• Engage
• Relate
• Small bites
• Tell stories
……Don’t just teach – Train!
Teaching to an ADD world
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Teaching Vs. Training
• Immersive
• Personal
• Engaging
• Doing helps you remember
• Doing makes it second nature
• Repetitions
…………You never stop training
Bite Sized Training
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How to do it?
Transferring knowledge
• Bite sized
• Interactive
• Enhanced reality
• Gamification
• Immediate reward
• Accessed anywhere
• Available from any
device
• Auto-launched (smart)
Making sure it remains ..
• Personalized
• Always available for review
• Accessed anywhere
• Searchable
• Logically embedded
• Responsive
• Intelligent
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The challenges
General Challenges:
• Growing use of organization-wide software
• Employee(s) – hired one at a time
• Hit the ground running
• Global work force
• Mobile (or home) work force
• Physical technology / BYOD
Generation Challenges
• Personalized
• Attention span
• Expectations
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How to do it?
• Using Management & Delivery technologies
• Providing rich engaging content
• Paradigm shift - Opening up to new technologies
• Train – not teach
• Interactive
• (really) Responsive
• personal
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Iridize is a platform that allows you to create
• Interactive walk-through and guides “on top” of a product’s
web interface in order to
• Train users
• Support users
• Communicate with users
• Monitor activity and responses
What is Iridize?
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What can Iridize do for You?
• Quicken product adoption
• Reduce churn
• Upgrade product assimilation
• Reduce support and training costs
• Reduce training time
• Ease of rolling out new processes/features
• increase training effectivity
• Ease change management
• Increase employee productivity
• Monitor training effectivity and employee interaction with new
tools
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Adquant by Kenshoo
30 days after implementation they saw the following:
• 60 guides were activated a total of 978 times
• New user training time was reduced by 25%
• 60 minutes were saved per every training session
• 51 staff hours were saved on user guidance
What our users say
(Provided by Kenshoo– Iridize for Adquant)