Excellence at Work 215: Guidelines for Upskilling in the Modern Era of Blended Learning

Guest: Nancy Dietz, M.A.Ed. CPTD, Senior Manager, Training and Development, Meridian Knowledge Solutions.

Our discussion is a follow-up to the Webinar: The Modern Era of Blended Learning: Guidelines for Upskilling.

Topics include:

• Creating a baseline for upskilling and reskilling
• Determining needed skills by organization, department and individual
• Focusing on the gaps
• Using formal, informal and experiential methods
• Building on various skills
• How to train on skills that need to be remembered vs. skills that are supported by performance tools
• Using an LMS to assist in automating the learner journey
• Client examples and experiences
• Insights from Nancy’s journey
• And more!

To read the Executive Interview from the podcast with Nancy Dietz, download the pdf here: https://go.brandonhall.com/Meridian_Interview_215.

Nancy Dietz, CPTD has been in Learning and Development for over 15 years. Nancy’s extensive background in the adult education learning space spans Director of Education Services, LMS and ATS Administrator, Training Consultant and Manager of Training and Development. Nancy’s passion is using technology to increase information accessibility for an organization’s primary resource — its people. Nancy believes in creating training programs to leverage technology to open doors for employees to consume new ideas and refresh existing knowledge. Nancy is an expert at creating training programs such as Service Excellence for Executive and Management Staff for large corporations and designing accessible LMS and student materials.

About Meridian Knowledge Solutions

Powering progress with compliance training, branded and blended learning environments, and eCommerce solutions. Meridian Learning Management System (LMS) addresses complex learning challenges for customers such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Johnson Controls, Abbott, Mazda, HAI Group and The Auto Club Group (AAA). Their award-winning enterprise-level learning management platform contains their proprietary Learning Record Store (LRS), Career Explorer, content authoring tools, and natively integrates content provided by their partner OpenSesame. Meridian LMS is available in the cloud, on-premise or private cloud. A Brandon Hall Group Gold Preferred Provider, Meridian Knowledge Solutions was honored with a Brandon Hall Group 2021 Excellence Award with Johnson Controls.

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