{"id":21339,"date":"2018-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/are-you-building-your-teams-virtual-learning-ecosystem\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:46:24","slug":"are-you-building-your-teams-virtual-learning-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/are-you-building-your-teams-virtual-learning-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you building your team\u2019s virtual learning ecosystem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first ever team someone manages is now often a global, virtual, cross-cultural team.\u00a0 Quite a challenge. As a result all managerial onboarding should be infused with virtual working \u2013 not just a 30 minute slide deck tacked on at the end. Secondly, the move towards cross-functional, cross-organizational teams means it\u2019s more important than ever to encourage (or some commentators say \u2018push\u2019) people to gain diverse experiences by moving across functions and geographies throughout their career.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, in a fast-changing future, we can\u2019t know exactly what we will need to train our people in. We know it will be different, but we don\u2019t know how quickly digital augmentation or automation will take off. What we can do is start by building the habit of continuous learning into our people and helping them develop their own ecosystems of learning to prepare them for this environment.<\/p>\n

Encourage your team to think consciously about who could provide thought leadership for them and how best to access this. For example, outside of the organization, choosing a diverse selection of people to follow on twitter\/ LinkedIn; setting up Google Alerts for relevant key words; subscribing to relevant industry blogs and white papers (McKinsey, The Economist, Global Integration).\u00a0 Inside the organization, who could they approach to be a formal or informal mentor, who could they \u2018follow\u2019 on internal networking tools?<\/p>\n

To drive continuous learning IBM recently replaced its global LMS<\/a> with a new digital learning platform that:<\/p>\n