Cutting Through
Helping experts
engage ‘outsiders'
in complex ideas
Damien discusses his strategy for engaging 7Eleven in a new Agile-aligned learning strategy.
He shares his experience in engaging the leadership as well as the organisation in this new approach to learning and growth. This includes
- How Agile offers natural opportunities to ‘bake learning in' to the BAU operating rhythm (which you can do even if you are not adopting Agile ways of working)
- How to engage up, down and sideways to be confident your idea is ‘sold' before you pitch it
- How he demonstrates the business value of learning
Timestamps
0:00 – Introduction
1:10 – How the Agile model works
3:38 – The challenge of changing how a business looks at learning and skill development
11:26 – Selling the idea of ‘baked in’ learning rather than a ‘tick and flick' approach
22:54 – The importance of creating a pitch that ties together business outcomes and learning
27:43 – Laying the groundwork before taking the pitch to SLT
33:16 – Novel ways of influencing and engaging leaders in learning
39:06 – Damien’s final tips for pitching a new way of approaching learning within a business
RESOURCES
- Access the details of the books Damien mentioned in the episode notes below
- Connect with Damien on LinkedIn here
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