As an L&D professional, you’re familiar with many models of learning, but there’s one area, upskilling First-Time Managers, where role-play practice remains one of the most effective strategies. But how do you scale roleplay?
AI (Artificial Intelligence) may be the answer.

There are several ways you can use AI-driven digital role-play to empower First-Time Managers at scale for better performance.
Remote practicing, smart objective setting, big-data benchmarking and adaptive learning scheduling are some of the strategies that can help you go beyond the limitation of soft-skills knowledge-led e-learning solutions, to start providing continuous empowering value to your learners.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:

• What digital role-play is and how it can help corporate L&D professionals deliver effective and practical soft skills learning strategies
• Why Digital Role Play can be your best ally when it comes to upskill First-Time Managers
• The main characteristics to look at when designing a learning strategy based on digital role-play
• What early-adopting L&D professionals report are the leading advantages behind this new learning strategy

In un momento come questo, in cui le aziende e le persone sono chiamate a modificare in modo radicale i propri comportamenti, è necessario che i leader siano in grado di esprimere al meglio il loro ruolo strategico.

L’esigenza è quella di una Leadership, empatica, comunicativa, che sia in grado di accompagnare l’intera organizzazione lungo un percorso di trasformazione nell’incertezza, operando in un sistema complesso, inedito e imprevedibile.

Durante questo webinar racconteremo la nostra esperienza sul tema della Leadership nel cambiamento, portando case studies ed esempi pratici. Approfondiremo come l’evoluzione del mindset di un’intera organizzazione possa essere facilitata dalle conversazioni.
Infatti, facendo leva su una comunicazione diretta, personale ed empatica, i leader diffondono un senso di purpose condiviso in cui si possono riconoscere tutte le persone che fanno parte dell’organizzazione.

In questo webinar discuteremo insieme:

• qual è l’importanza della relazione personale ed empatica nei contesti che stanno attraversando una fase di trasformazione;

• perché le conversazioni sono l’arma segreta dei leader per guidare la propria organizzazione in un periodo di complessità e incertezza;

• quali sono i “passi falsi” da evitare durante le conversazioni;

• quali sono le azioni chiave da mettere in pratica per rendere realmente efficaci le conversazioni che contano.

A conversation is a moment when the potential becomes collective energy.

It’s the 20% factor by which a leader makes possible the 80% difference in team results. This is the number-one reason that one shouldn’t plan for leadership training without considering the importance of developing conversational skills on key critical types of conversations.

Backed by a team of researchers in the areas of management, leadership, adult training and neuroscience, we’ve developed a series of six webinars grouped in three blocks:

• Innovative Learning Strategies,
• Best Practices from the field
• Case-study applications.

They gives corporate learning managers, officers, VPs, SMEs, independent leadership trainers and executive coaches a comprehensive overview of how to approach evolutionary design and implementation for effective leadership training.

Innovative Learning Strategies

After 10 years in continuous research in leadership development and with more than 30 articles published in prestigious international journals, we’ve explored this topic at its cutting edge. The first two webinars discuss how AI-based technology can improve the current approach of leadership training design:

1. First-Time Managers need to practice Leadership Conversations

January 29, 2020 – 12:00 pm ET 

2. AI-driven Role Play for making First-Time Managers Practice Leadership Conversations

February 19, 2020 – 12:00 pm ET

Best practices from the field

With more than 300,000 leaders trained over the years on practice-based leadership training, we’ve collected so many lessons on what works and what
doesn’t. Webinar 3 and 4 are a gold mine to skip the line and learn from others’ mistakes.

3. Four Best Practices to Improve Digital Learning Traffic and First-Time Manager Engagement

March 18, 2020 – 12:00 pm ET

4. Six Best Practices for Faster First-Time Manager upskilling

May 4, 2020 – 12:00 pm ET

Case-study applications

We work with hundreds of medium and large organizations, and we’ve witnessed dozens of inspiring case studies where a great leadership training design can make the difference. Webinars 5 and 6 of this series explore some of the most interesting lessons we’ve learned.

5. Developing First-Time Managers’ Self-Awareness Through AI-Based Role-Play

May 27, 2020 – 12:00 pm ET

6. Retaining Talents Through Development of Leadership Conversation Skills

June 24, 2020 – 12:00 pm ET

The journey from individual contributor to newly appointed manager is tough.
It brings excitement and anxiety as emerging leaders move from focusing on accomplishing their own tasks to helping others accomplish their own tasks.
It requires new skills that they normally did not practice enough.

Why should high potentials, emerging leaders and newly appointed managers practice on leadership conversations?
The shift in their role implies new responsibilities and new or, at least, improved communication skills, such as:

• Listening actively;
• Delegating;
• Focusing on People instead on tasks;
• Learning from others;
• Managing a team;

Supporting young managers and developing their leadership skills is one of the main challenges of L&D, since they need to acquire the ability of managing a new set of critical conversations where high stakes, emotions and divergent opinions are very common and part of the daily experience.

In this webcast, we will discuss how a well-designed Digital experiential (learning-by-doing, if you prefer) approach, powered byArtificial Intelligence and deeply rooted into a human-centric methodology, can support this behavioral shift through an actionable critical conversational upskilling.
We will share more about our researches, case studies and direct experiences “on the field” dealing with this topic.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:

• Why it is so important for new leaders to master leadership conversations
• What types of conversations really make the difference in the early days
• How you can integrate efficient practice-based training into your next leadership program

Conversations are the moment when potential turns into collective energy. It’s the 20% factor of a leader making the 80% of the difference in team results.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to leverage practice on specific conversations in order to take leadership training programs to the next level. Leadership conversation training can help organizations solve a variety of challenges, including:

• Allowing organizations to benefit from diversity by blending differences in age, culture, expectations, and language;
• Cultivating teamwork by fostering influence without authority;
• Making communication fluid by helping individuals improve as active listeners.

By attending this webinar, you will learn why training on leadership conversations is critical to leadership development and how conversational skills can dramatically improve self-awareness and leadership performance.

This session will be led by Andrea Laus, CEO of SkillGym, and Matteo Malatesta, Head of Business Design at SkillGym.

This event supports several elements of the ATD Competency Model, including Performance Improvement and Training Delivery.

Join Christopher Lind at this great Learning Tech Talks show In this LinkedIn Live Session to explore the landscape of learning technology through unbiased conversations with technologies from around the world.

This Live session on LinkedIn Live is with Andrea Laus, CEO of SkillGym to discuss how to Practice Leadership Conversations leveraging Artificial Intelligence as smart ally.

The session will be held, live on Christopher Lind’s linkedin page and will remain as a recording for later views.

Why should managers devote time and effort to coaching their team? Research shows that coaching leads to better engagement, higher productivity and enhanced customer service. It also helps an employee improve performance, overcome challenges, reach goals and build self-confidence.
Shifting towards a coaching approach clearly requires the development of strong conversational skills, which can’t be simply learned in class:

• Collaborating instead of controlling
• Delegating more responsibility
• Talking less, listening more
• Giving fewer orders, asking more questions
• Giving specific feedback instead of making judgments

Join Andrea Laus and Matteo Malatesta from SkillGym for a discussion on how empowerment on conversational leadership through actionable and practicable training can become your best strategy for supporting managers in acquiring real coaching skills through powerful conversation mastery.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Why it is so important to work on practicing leadership conversations instead of just learning
• What we have learned about their conversational skills from interviewing over a thousand managers
• What types of conversations really make the difference when it comes to coaching employees
• How you can integrate efficient practice-based training into your next leadership program

In this webcast, we will discuss how digital learning-by-doing powered by AI can support leadership training programs with actionable conversational upskilling.

Unless the Leaders inside your organization live in a vacuum, they need to communicate with their employees.
Communication occurs through Conversations. Conversations are the moment when potential turns into collective energy.
It’s the 20% factor of a leader making the 80% of the difference in team results. It’s the C-Factor.

Conversations are an essential tool in developing powerful relationships, generating commitment and achieving goals. Participants of this webinar will learn the importance of:

• Preparing and developing roles by turning the knowledge into practice and the potential into real power
• Empowering in challenging situations by presenting critical contexts in safe and risk-free training environments
• Blending the differences between people in terms of age, culture, expectations and language allows organizations to benefit from diversity
• Cultivating teamwork by fostering influence without authority as a way to move things forward
• Making communication fluid by letting each person wear the shoes of someone else and improve on active listening and self-awareness