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Executive and Keynote Speeches
Jeanne conducts keynote addresses at industry conferences as well as in-house executive briefings to heads of enterprise learning and for-profit education companies. Jeanne's topics draw on her 15 years of experience with research best practices among global corporate universities and chief learning officers.
A sample of keynote speech topics include:
- Launch/Re-inventing or Closing a Corporate University
- Innovations in Social Learning & Knowledge Networking
- Building Best-in-class Corporate/University Partnerships
- Creating New Models in Executive Education Alliances
- Benchmarking Best Practices for Global Corporate Universities
- Skills & Competencies Needed For Next Generation Chief Learning Officer and Staff
For further details on Jeanne's availability and fees please contact david@jeannemeister.com.
Executive Coaching For Chief Learning Officers
Jeanne serves as an executive coach for a growing number of Chief Learning Officers as they re-invent and evolve their learning function to more closely align to corporate business priorities.
In this role, Jeanne is a coach rather than a consultant and creates a year long relationship with the Chief Learning Officer or Chief Talent Officer to help create an award winning learning organization. As part of this year long process, Jeanne assists in creating a branding strategy for the learning function. Jeanne conducts weekly phone, email and occasional webinars with the Chief Learning Officer.
Some of the topics that are covered in these coaching relationships include:
- Outsourcing the Learning Function: Lessons and Failures
- Creating A Shared Services Model
- Re-inventing A Corporate University
- Creating A Governance Model For the Learning Function
- Focusing Learning on Mission Critical Workforces: How and Why
- Creating a Learning Annual Report
- Benchmarking Your Learning Function Against your Competitors
- Training Your Staff on Skills Needed to Successfully Run an Enterprise Learning Function
- Applying For and Winning the "right" awards in enterprise learning
- Using Innovative Tools To Develop Communities of Practice
Jeanne's measure of success is your increased stature and effectiveness in managing the learning function for your organization. For more information, please email your request to david@jeannemeister.com.
Research & Insight
Using the latest social networking and community tools, Jeanne orchestrates and moderates custom designed on-line communities exploring such issues as:
- Development of new service enhancements for online degree programs;
- Identification of unmet needs and preferences for online learners;
- Pilot test potentially new interactive online learner experiences;
- Surface unmet needs in the global marketplace;
- Understand the needs to launch/expand/re-engineer customer education programs.
If you are interested in learning more about this, send an email to david@jeannemeister.com.
About Learning Horizons tm Newsletter
Inspire. Inform. Involve
This newsletter will explore key emerging trends in the intersection of corporate learning and distance education programs offered by post secondary institutions.
Global Insight, an economic think tank, estimates that by 2010 25% of the working population is expected to reach retirement. This could result in a potential shortage of 10 million workers. Officials at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management forecast that the retirement rate will continue to increase, peaking in fiscal year 2009. This exodus of talent, combined with the ever increasing competition for new talent, creates a brain drain that could dramatically impact organizational effectiveness.
At the same time the "Net Generation," born between 1980 and 1994, is entering the workforce. They carry an arsenal of electronic devices to the workforce-the more portable the better. These Net Geners are accustomed to juggling several instant messaging conversations, surfing the Web and listening to music on their iPod while doing their work. They are quite adept at seamlessly mixing learning, communicating and playing. This will have a profound impact on corporate learning–already college professors are being forced to adjust by shortening their lectures to accommodate for more knowledge sharing and collaboration between learners and providing course lectures in a format that can be downloaded to portable devices.
The potential of lost institutional knowledge, combined with the entrance of younger more technologically savvy workers, will create lasting and profound changes to the workforce and the way enterprise-wide learning is designed and delivered. Increasingly, learning at the enterprise level will be:
- Accessible Across Multiple Channels – allowing for learner centric distribution modes including Instructor Led Training, eLearning, podcasts, wikis, blogs, etc.
- Modular – to enable learners to find and consume just the portion of the content that is relevant to them and to the task at hand.
- Dynamic – where learning objects are updated by subject matter experts in the field as key content changes.
- Collaborative – so learners can easily contribute content, share lessons learned and add to both their personal and the organizational knowledge base.
- Engaging – such that learners want to participate in interactive learning games and simulations that hold their attention and interest.
- Personalized – where the learning that is presented to the learner is relevant to their job performance and delivered at the point of need.
- User Generated Content – more content will be provided by users, thus encouraging "engaged learning."