Pivot with Passion: Build Leadership Engagement at all levels
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L & D Expert, RussellMartin & Assoc.
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Date and TimeWed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12PM Pacific / 3PM Eastern
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Duration1 Hour
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Description
Pivot with Passion: Darkness to Light
As Leaders, it is our responsibility to walk bravely with darkness and light. Now that we are mechanically doing the same old workshops, conferences and meetings with mostly online delivery, the darkness is beginning to close around us. Here’s an interesting fact about going from light to darkness:
“… it’s the ability to adapt to darkness and the time it takes for one’s vision to recover when going from light to darkness that is most affected. Photoreceptor cells that handle our night vision die and degenerate sooner than the cells that manage our daytime vision.”
We didn’t even know we were going to be in darkness when Covid sent us home, and we are still agitated. Looking back to ‘before Covid’, most of us in L&D were doing the same things the same old ways. L&D meant teaching the same types of workshops with the same formats. Training was a commodity project (begin/end), not a process (continue). Did learning occur? Maybe a little, but in general we played it pretty safe. The most exciting new (?) thing was Zoom.
When Covid showed up, everything went virtual. The same modules previously used face to face, morphed into online modules with producers. Being with others physically was really scary so online was the worst best choice. The absence of real people was difficult for L&D people who like to be in person, including me. We know how to live in this world now and we’ve slowly but surely evolved into a common, silent community of fear. Innovation in teaching, designing, leading and inventing is dialed in – everything is too risky, even L&D. We have become uncomfortably used to our new existence including masks, empty stores, and loneliness.
What if we looked at a Middlespace in L&D? It’s time for us all to step up for innovative ways to move past doing the same pre-covid and current in-covid ways of learning. Join our TMN Webinar to look forward. What are new ways we can drive hope, innovation and learning? What are the steps to minimize the power of fear? Like prisoners in the dark, how will we learn to see when we enter the light?
As Leaders, it is our responsibility to walk bravely with darkness and light. Now that we are mechanically doing the same old workshops, conferences and meetings with mostly online delivery, the darkness is beginning to close around us. Here’s an interesting fact about going from light to darkness:
“… it’s the ability to adapt to darkness and the time it takes for one’s vision to recover when going from light to darkness that is most affected. Photoreceptor cells that handle our night vision die and degenerate sooner than the cells that manage our daytime vision.”
We didn’t even know we were going to be in darkness when Covid sent us home, and we are still agitated. Looking back to ‘before Covid’, most of us in L&D were doing the same things the same old ways. L&D meant teaching the same types of workshops with the same formats. Training was a commodity project (begin/end), not a process (continue). Did learning occur? Maybe a little, but in general we played it pretty safe. The most exciting new (?) thing was Zoom.
When Covid showed up, everything went virtual. The same modules previously used face to face, morphed into online modules with producers. Being with others physically was really scary so online was the worst best choice. The absence of real people was difficult for L&D people who like to be in person, including me. We know how to live in this world now and we’ve slowly but surely evolved into a common, silent community of fear. Innovation in teaching, designing, leading and inventing is dialed in – everything is too risky, even L&D. We have become uncomfortably used to our new existence including masks, empty stores, and loneliness.
What if we looked at a Middlespace in L&D? It’s time for us all to step up for innovative ways to move past doing the same pre-covid and current in-covid ways of learning. Join our TMN Webinar to look forward. What are new ways we can drive hope, innovation and learning? What are the steps to minimize the power of fear? Like prisoners in the dark, how will we learn to see when we enter the light?
About Lou Russell
Lou Russell is the CEO/Queen of RMA, an executive consultant, speaker, and author whose passion is to create growth in companies by guiding the growth of their people. In her speaking, training, and writing, Lou draws on 30 years of experience helping organizations achieve their full potential. She inspires improvement in leadership, project management, and individual learning.
Lou is the author of seven popular and practical books: IT Leadership Alchemy, The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook, Training Triage, Leadership Training, Project Management for Trainers, 10 Steps to Successful Project Management and Managing Projects. As a sought-after international speaker, Lou blends her humorous stories with her on-the-ground experience to speak to the real problems of the people in the room. Encouraged by Lou’s upbeat and practical style, every learner leaves with new enthusiasm and tools to improve their bottom line.
You will be moving, laughing, participating, inspired and challenged. Most importantly to Lou, you will learn.
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