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

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