Future-Focused with Christopher Lind

Yes. I do love Snapchat filters and sending silly videos to my personal friends and colleagues. Why do I waste such precious time with 5 kids and a senior-level position at a high-performing company? Because it’s  FUN! It also helps bring out my creative side and consequentially influences the work that I do.    Call me a time thief, (I PROMISE I DON’T DO IT AT WORK) but connecting...

I have a secret I’ve been meaning to share with everyone. Okay, here it goes. Even as an adult, Phhhewww, this is tougher than I thought. Okay. I. Christopher Lind. Still love cartoons. There, I said it. Yes, in the corporate world we don’t call them cartoons (They’ll rot your brain!) but are much more professionally called, A N I M A T I O N S. Call it what you want, but it’s become very clear th...

LXP, Easy as 123 Ah, simple as do re mi   LXP, 123  ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬    What is YOUR high-performing organization doing to address workforce skills when they start to become obsolete or just average? I am not trying to be 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛, leveraging pun skills aside, but the industry is experiencing a state of disequilibrium in the marketplace with the absence of platforms that effectively build s...

Have you ever felt like finding the “Next” button on your LMS course is more like navigating a game of “Where's Waldo?”. With the increasing number of digital applications used in the eLearning space, learners have become overwhelmed with the numerous applications of design and functionality. We may #havethepower to create intuitive and endless learning capabilities with the status quo LMS, but ma...

HR leaders, listen up! It doesn’t look like things are ever going back to what we considered normal post-pandemic. \WHO CARES/. What was normal in the first place? I believe it is easier to embrace the current situation for what it is and move forward! Remote work and the intensifying #talentmobility​ race are putting extra pressure on HR leaders to ensure that the hiring process shines! FACT: Emp...

It’s been 18 months since I started Learning Tech Talks, and a lot has happened since then. If you’re banking on things returning to pre-2020 at some point, I’ve got some news for you. The digital learning age has been coming for a while. 2020 simply accelerated and secured the shift, and there’s no going back. This is our last Blockbuster moment. The good news is, the digital future is bright and...

Nothing makes an organization STRONGER than a well-implemented LMS solution. A clean conscience performance enhancer. The market for LMS is mature to a point where most learning leaders are educated and well versed in the time and cost-saving functionality of having LMS or not. As new entrants continue to emerge, the waters have gotten muddy with overinflated features that obstruct the learning pr...

Individualized coaching and development have traditionally been confined to the upper ranks of management. Of course, it makes sense that we would want our company figureheads to be superior in their performance and well-being. Sadly, this limitation has left the rest of the company to navigate their personal development journey on their own. Too often we are employees with a hammer, and everythin...

You don’t have to be crazy to work here; we’ll train you! I think I speak for all of us when describing the frustrations of learning new platforms and procedures. Just do that, this, and a couple of these, and you’ll be just fine. Makes sense, right? Enterprise software is SUPPOSED to make our job easier, save time and money. Yet time and time again, it doesn’t work out that way. Is it the softwar...

Who thought that having TOO much information and education at our fingertips would be a bad thing? As a ‘90s kid with dial-up internet, I sure didn’t. urrrr EEEE urrr NNNGGGG CRRRRcrrrr KEEEEEEE grrr nnnnnng….. It would be easy to assume that with the vast number of resources available to us today that higher organizational learning should be easily acquired and interpreted. The issue we are seein...

Laying off your workforce when times get tough is never an easy process. There’s a lot to consider and emotions run high for employers and employees. As a result, the employee often gets the short end of the stick, damaging the employee brand and opening up opportunities for litigation. Furthermore, there’s often a lot of great talent that could be better served in another part of the organization...

Automating, accelerating, and personalizing our digital content all the while measuring experience and impact must require an entire ecosystem of technology and another experience platform, right? Despite all the efforts and technology out there driving to improve when and where our workforce consumes the content they need, there continues to be opportunity to transform the way it’s developed. Man...

Prevailing ideas on futuristic training simulations are starting to blur the line between fiction and reality with emerging technology. Learning leaders (and dreamers) often have envisions of a believable training environment that isn’t taught but experienced, with the ability to provide real-time data points to highlight achievements AND failures within the design and learner journey. We are only...

Access to content is not equivalent to access to opportunity. Having a library card doesn't mean you have the ability, motivation and triggers to go to the library, and then when you are there have the knowledge to both find and learn what is relevant and important. With the continued pressure to hack the upskilling code, many continue looking for ways to grow and develop their workforce despite t...

Upskilling is no longer a conversation of necessity. It is a matter of SURVIVAL. 2020 has shown us that the entire global workforce is vulnerable and the supply and demand for skills is at an order imbalance. Will you be added to the list of endangered skills? The impact of skills only being to scratch the surface with compounding effects on mental health, productivity and retention. And they are...

It’s time we have a tough conversation. Diversity and inclusion programs AREN’T working. 2020 has shown us that WE aren’t there yet and WE need to improve. The search for the answer to a viable and sustainable program is pertinent to the #futureofwork. Organizations NEED to take positive steps to remove systemic barriers and promote inclusion. In this episode, Elisabeth Cooke and I are talking abo...

Too frequently our learning leaders are draining resources on a multitude of external systems that work against the environment they are trying to create. It’s not you, it’s me. In reality, building a larger capability map to design and weave both internal and external systems to work together in tandem is how a true ecosystem should function. There is no “I” in team with the #futureofwork and col...

VR with VR. Value Realization with Virtual Reality. We are witnessing the new age of products that require a sales pitch like nothing we’ve ever seen before. How do we present products in the #immersivetechnology sector to businesses that HAVE a need but HAVEN’T realized it yet. Leaders are seeing the importance of LISTENING in on these important conversations that concern the #futureofwork to lea...

Organizations often make the fatal assumption that their leaders already have the skills they need to thrive in the current business environment. Unfortunately, many leaders have received little to no development on these critical skills. As a result, avoidable mistakes are frequently made, and countless opportunities are missed. However, when it comes to developing leaders, it takes a lot more th...

One benefit of employees using so many digital platforms is the creation of massive amounts of data about employee skills. When harnessed, this has the potential to provide organizations with unprecedented visibility into the skills of their employees and the way work is really done. Unfortunately, the volume of data makes analyzing it impossible for any human. However, when you augment that team...

In complex organizations many people work, we collaborate with people from around the world to solve important problems together. Given that’s the way work is done, why aren’t more learning opportunities designed around that kind of experience? It’s a good question and a gap worth discussing as we kick off 2021 and continue to enhance the way we develop real skills digitally. However, one challeng...

Regardless of the function you’re in or the industry your company serves, #digitaltransformation is affecting everyone. Yet, it is estimated that somewhere to the tune of 70% of digital transformations fail. That’s because digital transformation isn’t about simply seeking out the latest in tech and layering it on top of the way work is done today. Making it a success requires diagnosing root issue...

There’s a reason YouTube boasts over 1.9 billion users with over 500 hours of video content every minute. The reason is video is an extremely powerful tool for a multitude of use-cases. Whether it’s an inspirational messaging about the latest organizational change or a clip highlighting the most efficient way to repair a product on the front line, video can be a powerful way to drive organizationa...

There’s a number of well-known tools out there that many are familiar with for creating digital learning content. However, many of these tools require an advanced skillset and reduce the speed at which content can be created. This is especially dangerous at a time when content needs to be created and delivered faster than ever before. Unfortunately, it’s easy to mitigate this challenge by using ba...

While content has an important role in the growth and development of employees, it also requires dialogue, reflection, practice, and feedback. In other words, content needs context and collaboration. Is it possible to create that type of learning environment digitally? This was one of the biggest challenges faced by learning organizations faced in 2020 as they fought to maintain the quality of exp...