Website design By BotEap.comWhen designing a change initiative, it’s tempting to go big.

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Website design By BotEap.comMonth-long roadshows.

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Website design By BotEap.comMaybe even a flashy new intranet, containing all the information your people could want.

Website design By BotEap.comBe suspicious of that instinct.

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Website design By BotEap.comBig bright hot burns, then burns away.

Website design By BotEap.comBig doesn’t fit into the existing work environment.

Website design By BotEap.comAdding something to your people’s obligations is like adding rocks to a half-full bucket. If you add a pebble or a few grains of sand, it will nest in the gaps. Try sticking a fist-sized rock in and all you’ll get is sparks.

Website design By BotEap.comYou’ve seen this before: great training programs that don’t translate into real-world improvements.

Website design By BotEap.comThe further away the learning environment is from the work environment, the less easily your people will be able to apply it.

Website design By BotEap.comAnd time away from your regular jobs always comes at a cost, and guess who has to pay for it?

Website design By BotEap.comLet’s say your people come back from a three-day retreat feeling inspired (which, honestly, is the best case scenario). What is the first thing they do?

Website design By BotEap.comWell, they have to catch up on the work that has piled up while they were away.

Website design By BotEap.comBy the time they get around to thinking about what they learned, probably a day or two later, they’re exhausted and back to their usual pace.

Website design By BotEap.comI have designed and delivered all types of learning and development programs. Everyone faces this challenge. It doesn’t matter how good the material is, how passionate the presenter is, how engaging the exercises are: it’s a big challenge to apply what they learn to their jobs.

Website design By BotEap.comTaking all this together, we get this truth:

Website design By BotEap.comIf you want your people to change, you need to deliver learning in small chunks in your work environment.

Website design By BotEap.comWhen you put it like that, it doesn’t seem that hard.

Website design By BotEap.comThat’s why microlearning is one of the hottest trends in learning and development right now. A few minutes of learning, delivered to the workplace when and where they need it, is a powerful way to learn.

Website design By BotEap.comIt is also a powerful way to create organizational change.

Website design By BotEap.comNo counterproductive festivals.

Website design By BotEap.comNo grandiose extravagance.

Website design By BotEap.comJust change pure and simple.

Website design By BotEap.comAnd what do you include in these messages? That’s up to you, but it will probably include the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the change.

Website design By BotEap.comBasic tips on how to change.

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Website design By BotEap.comWhen this is made easily accessible to all, it creates an effective and convenient resource, one that infuses the initiative for change into every day of your people’s lives. All without overwhelming, boring or distracting anyone.