The document discusses the impact of the internet and budget cuts on learning and development within organizations, emphasizing the need for a shift in purpose and engagement strategies. It highlights the importance of using digital tools like e-learning content, videos, and discussion forums to effectively communicate and engage staff during organizational change. The author, Dave Briggs, encourages leveraging these tools to maintain relevance and facilitate a smooth transition for employees.

1. Engaging change
Dave Briggs
Community Evangelist
www.learningpool.com

2. dave@learningpool.com
www.davepress.net
@davebriggs

4. What I do
• Think
• Write
• and
• Talk

5. The internet and the cuts.

6. Searching for relevance.

7. Because: ‘If you don’t like change, you’ll like
irrelevance even less’.

8. News
Music
TV

9. The question is not ‘how does the internet
change the way we do things?’

10. It’s ‘how does the internet change the
purpose of what we do?’

11. Add in the cuts.

12. Everyone must justify what they are doing in
terms of actual outcomes.

13. In other words, in an age of instant
publishing, limitless availability of content
and always-on connectivity...

14. ...and where funding will be cut wherever it
can’t be justified...

15. ...how do learning and development folk
remain relevant?

16. It’s all about positioning.

17. Budget cuts mean organisational redesign
which means change on a massive scale.

18. Everyone says the hardest thing about
change is engaging staff.

19. (And in this context, we mean the poor
saps who are left.)

20. Learning and development should be
positioned as being the main enabler of
organisation-wide change.

21. You have the tools with which staff can be
informed and engaged with the vision of
change on a massive scale.

22. Because traditional internal comms just
doesn’t cut it anymore.
(It’s mostly irrelevant.)

23. E-learning style content.

24. Videos and podcasts.

25. Live web chats.

26. Discussion forums.

27. A vital channel for messages to be
distributed in the format that suits the
recipient.

28. Most importantly, the ability for staff to
query and clarify in a safe environment.

29. After all, the last thing you want is for staff to
be grumbling on Facebook.

30. As ever, Learning Pool is here to help!

32. We’ll be sending you a copy (whether you
like it or not).

33. Talk to your learning consultant about how
you can put together modules and
interactive elements to create a change
‘hub’ on your DLE.

34. Or if you’d like some help from me and
Breda, just get in touch!

35. dave@learningpool.com
breda@learningpool.com