Australian workers and their businesses are at high risk of getting left behind unless employers make significant changes to their workplaces post-COVID, according to a first of its kind Australian survey by the Centre for the New Workforce at Swinburne University of Technology. In this unprecedented era of disruption, the survey found that more than half of Australian workers do almost no learning at work (less than an hour a week), despite three in five workers saying are concerned they don’t have the skills required for the next five years. This keynote will discuss the crisis of creativity facing Australian businesses, including these key findings:

• Worker-driven learning – where employees are empowered to learn and create knowledge through work – supports innovation much more strongly than structured formal training.
• Sharing knowledge and expertise between colleagues boosted idea incubation by up to 31 per cent.
• Collaboration diversity – working with different people from across the organisation and beyond – was a strong factor for boosting innovation, yet only 1 in 5 Australian workers were engaged in the most collaboratively diverse project work.

In this session Dale shall explore:

• Why you should be considering games for your training needs
• Best practice when developing and deploying games for training
• Case studies of how games are being used for training across industries including business, construction, emergency services and health.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created the most severe global education disruption in history. As a result, digital technologies have become essential to the education experience.In this session, we'll share stories from end users and leading organisations and show you how Microsoft Teams and other cloud services (you may already own) can be used to:

• Provide a unified experience for students and staff
• Engage with parents in the hybrid learning environment
• Deliver highly collaborative, bite-size learning
• Validate program quality and accreditation
• Provide secure online exams and proctoring

This session is ideal for leaders from education institutions and corporate training providers seeking best practices to evolve their e-learning programs and harness the power of technology to supplement and enhance face-to-face learning.

The ‘learning brand’ is becoming increasingly more important to improve engagement whilst improving the learning experiences (LX). Think about the emotions or values that a brand provides; how do we use marketing techniques for our learning brand to create the desired learning culture and that emotional connection to learning within the organisation.This thought-provoking and creative presentation will cover what is strategic learning brand, how a learning brand can drive engagement, build a learning culture, how to build a learning branding strategy and will show case learning brands.What is Strategic Learning Brand.Including exploration of marketing branding techniques including colour therapy, environmental and social design (fit for target audience and organisational strategy).Steps on how to build a Learning Branding Strategy fit for organisational purpose.