Formats and Methods

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Blended Learning

Today’s qualification architects primarily refer to the 70:20:10 rule for guidance. This means that 70% of “learning” ideally takes place right at the workplace, 20% during interaction and collaboration with other learners and only 10% as part of classical learning forms, such as seminars or stand-alone e-learning. In each case, sustainable qualification therefore requires a combination of the approaches mentioned. This intelligently enables both, self-learning via virtual micro-learning at the workplace, and testing/experimenting in communities or F2F-formats such as workshops or coaching.

Learning Communities

(Virtual) Coaching

Social Workplace Learning

(Large Group-) Workshops

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Scrum

Scrum is an agile development method that originated from project management. It ensures that the development of a product takes place in small steps (sprints) and repetitive stages. This allows experience and knowledge to flow into the development process quickly. A self-organized development team is at the centre of scrum, getting along without a project manager. The product manager has the task to define, prioritize and exchange requirements. A Scrum Master ensures that the development team is always working at the optimum level. In today’s world, Scrum principles are conquering more and more new fields of application.

Design Thinking

Design Thinking is an agile method in which a variety of creative techniques are combined to develop innovative products and services. The starting point of the Design Thinking process is the customer and his needs, which are both first researched and understood. Approaches towards a solution are focused, ideas generated, and prototypes developed. These are then iterated with the customer until a best-case solution has been developed.

Business Model Canvas

Kanban

Kanban (Japanese for “signal card”) is the Japanese adaptation of a classic to-do list. Kanban is an agile method to organize work within teams. For this purpose, a Kanban board comes into play. The use of this board is to visualize project processes as well as tasks and their current status. This increases transparency throughout the team while bottlenecks become visible. Consequently, lead times can be reduced.

Sprints & Hacks

Journeys

This method allows participants to gather information and/or test and verify their knowledge at several stations. Nowadays, this ideally takes place in a format that allows participants to determine the sequence by themselves, e.g. by using a “marketplace”. The individual thus becomes an active designer of the topics he or she is most interested in. As part of a small group they can then work on these topics independently. Consequently, the participants themselves are active shapers of their qualification. Our “Learning Lab” for example, is a journey of this kind.

Creative Techniques

Open Space

The Open Space Method is a large group format to deal with complex issues and achieve action-oriented results within a short period of time. It is based on the principles of self-organization and self-determination of the participants involved. Each participant has the opportunity to contribute his or her own topics and questions. This method is particularly useful for complex challenges, such as the quick and creative design of change processes in organizations. One of today’s popular formats, the “bar camp”, is an example of such an open space setting.

World Café

Circles

Dynamic Facilitation

Formats and Methods

Our L&OD Formats

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Our
L&OD Formats