Last month our community had a broader spectrum of peer-learning opportunities which were significant. We started the week of April 14th at Caterpillar’s Aurora factory, 94 acres under roof where Caterpillar makes some of its largest equipment and also includes classrooms for CatU. A centerpiece of the day was seeing their recently added Simulated Work Environment where mixed level teams are put through an actual model assembly line and asked to deal as a team with an assortment of problems to speed up and improve the quality of the wooden toy-like trucks they assemble. In the Simulated Work Environment, time for learning is spent focusing on instilling the Caterpillar strategic vision, goals, values and critical success factors. The experience reminded us that team events do not need the latest hi-tech solution; building wooden trucks with specific team objectives and workflow projects can be effective.
We ended the week at Accenture exploring e-Learning and Web 2.0 client success stories using principles from Don Tapscott’s “Wikinomics, How mass Collaboration Changes Everything” lead by Tom Hoglund, Accenture’s Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Performance Workspace and Web 2.0 Learning Global Lead. Multi-media copies of Tom’s presentation are available in the member area.
Then fast forward a week to April 25th for a conversation on "Globalization, Technology and Complexity" that Elloitt Masie kicked off as the keynote speaker for the Center to Advance Education for Adults (CAEA), located at DePaul University.
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During Elliott’s outstanding presentation, Brandy Agerbeck, a Chicagoland Graphic Facilitator, created a conceptual map of each conversation before our eyes. Within a few days of each other both Elliott launched LearningTown!, a Village for Learning Professionals and DePaul University launched CAEA Community Conversations, virtual social networks using a new technology called “Ning” which is a social networking platform created by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and the World Wide Web over ten years ago. A Ning is based on Web 2.0 and enables mass collaboration as Tom Hoglund explained to us at Accenture's peer-networking breakfast.
Below is the conceptual map of Elliott’s April 18, 2008 keynote (click here to view a larger image for printing).
This year's conference theme will be Business Transformation and Multi-Cultural Issues with Globalization. Richard Laible, Corporate Entertainer, plans to join us again this year to moderate the conference. Please feel free to start inviting your non U.S.-based colleagues to join the Chicagoland Learning Leaders on November 7th.
You can view & print a 2008 conference brochure (click here).
To help us plan the 2008 Chicagoland Learning Leader Conference being held on Friday, November 7th, we will be reaching out to Chicagoland Learning Leaders during April through June for presenters and conference sponsors. We are looking forward to being at the Q-Center (St. Charles) to showcase their state-of-the-art facilitates. It’s amazing how much as been upgraded since my Andersen days and we are sure many of the participants on Nov 7th will appreciate wi-fi access.
The keynote speakers planned are:
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Nick van Dam, Deloitte's CLO and author of 25 Best Practices in Learning & Talent Development, will be sharing signed copies with attendees and
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Bill Wiggenhorn, founder of Motorola University who is spending most of his time in China these days.
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Richard Laible, Corporate Entertainer and moderator of the 2007 Chicagoland Learning Leader Conference.
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