Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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TipsTechnology Creating and Sustaining Powerful New Habits THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT PEOPLE LEARN NEED TO BE LINKED TO A REINFORCEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. Te disciplines that create exceptional performance have been established and proven over the years in business, sports and personal lives. Tey are no diferent for the sales profession. Tey revolve around Explanation, Imitation and Repetition. Unfortunately, most sales performance improvement initiatives stop at Explanation or, at best, Imitation. Te desire to create a learning experience for sales professionals that is woven into the fabric of their work is a strong theme across learning teams. Te cloud opens the door to new ways for companies to think about performance improvement, extending continuous learning into daily activities. Leading-edge technologies like Chatter, Salesforce.com and Work.com are propelling the idea of social business groups who are like minded and the ability to recognize individual contributors for their accomplishments. Leap-frog advancements in custom learning platform development enable the use of applications, animation, interaction and graphical reproduction that support the modality of choice. Novologic consults with some of the largest companies and university systems on the planet, partnering with them in areas of product development, workplace learning initiatives, technology selection and development, and cultural architecting. In fact, it recently developed a cloud-based application for CloudCoaching International (CCI) that provides just-in-time learning through smartphones, tablets or PCs or in the classroom in multiple modes. Curiosity and staying true to the idea of learning by creating a performance improvement journey regardless of device and geography stimulates collaboration. Many companies have been steadily building competency, and it would be difcult to go into any of them in tremendous detail; however, a few have come to light recently that are trailblazing and removing barriers to entry, making content, ideas, behavior and design all come to life. 4What Interactive developed interactive learning for Cisco and Avaya through multimedia production and creation tools that bring the capabilities of their phone technology to the customer in a professional interactive session that is easy to consume. What elevates this style of learning is the on-demand nature of it and continuous ability to access the content anywhere, anytime. Te training moment occurs at a diferent time for every learner; on-demand provides the fexibility and opportunity to learn at the pace in the environment that allows for maximum focus. Imagine the potential that could be realized if behavior of the seller or the buyer could be observed through execution of the decisions or actions that were taken. Factorlab has created such an intersection with technology and "in-the-feld" behavior support through monitoring and reporting that is linked to actual results. Behavior and technology have long been disconnected, because once the learning experience has ended there are few ways to know if behavior is impacted outside of visiting with and observing the learner post training. Te beneft for the sales leader is wide ranging but a few that come to mind are, potential leverage human capital; quickly isolate and respond to seller skill gaps; reduce administrative time; streamline coaching time while doubling efectiveness and delivering the optimum amount of efort that will deliver the greatest return. Let's face it: Tere is no onesize-fts-all when it comes to learning. Some people like to read, some listen, some touch, some see, and some need a combination of it all. Of course, all of it needs to be linked to a reinforcement and accountability system. —CloudCoaching International leverages the powerful intersection of process, technology, people and learning to facilitate consistent sales behavior change and increase top-line sales growth. For more information, visit the website www. coachinginthecloud.com. Elearning! June / July 2013 41