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 ‘learning brand’ is becoming increasingly more important to improve engagement whilst improving the learning experiences. 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. We will look how simply steps on how to build a Learning Brand fit for organisational purpose.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.

Approaches to learning underwent a huge shift in many organisations in 2020.Was it the opportunity you were waiting for to make changes?Or a wake-up call that’s forced you to rethink how learning is enabled? Either way, NOW is the time to leverage gains and build or refresh your learning strategy.Come to this session for guidance on how to create an evidence-informed learning strategy that really fits your organisation, gains strong buy-in and creates value.

• Why create an organisational learning strategy
• A four-stage approach to creating a learning strategy
• Ensuring your strategy ‘fits’ your organisation

Almost every organisation had to redesign learning for the remote learner in response to the COVID-19 situations. Some organisations went further, they stopped asking “what do our employees need to know” and re-looked at “how do our employees learn best?”. In this short talk you’ll hear how SEEK reimagined the role of the learning function. You’ll learn:

• The growing need to redefine the role of learning within an organisation
• How aligning beliefs can radically influence learning design
• The need for hyper relevant learning principles that actually drive learning design

A learning management system is critical to developing geographically displaced teams, allowing for learner led development and recording completion for compliance. At Cotton On Group we use digital learning within the flow of work to deliver performance outcomes.Our LMS supports 22,000 team members in 19 countries and averages around 28,000 learning bites completed each month; this triples during peak. Let’s chat about:

• How to build a business case for an LMS
• How to structure your content for the best user experience
• How to engage the team to make digital learning part of their day to day
• How you can leverage the LMS to offer blended learning