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Global Perspectives by Kevin Oakes

As CEO of i4cp, Kevin provides strategic direction and vision, and is responsible for the overall operations of the organization. Kevin has been a pioneer in the human capital field for the last 15 years, and is a frequent author and international keynote speaker on topics such as talent management, leadership, innovation, metrics, and strategic learning in organizations.   Prior to founding i4cp, Kevin created SumTotal Systems, the world's largest learning management system company and the industry's leading provider of talent development solutions, when he merged Click2learn with Docent in 2003. The merger won Frost & Sullivan's Competitive Strategy Award in 2004. Kevin was also the 2006 chair of ATD’s board, and served five years as an ATD board member.

Kevin Oakes

Is your frontline aware of development opportunities? Probably not, according to Developing America’s Frontline Workers, new research from i4cp and Aspen Institute's UpSkill America.

Is Your Front Line Aware of Development Opportunities?

March 2021 - TD Magazine

Synopses of Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company by Kevin Oakes and Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection by Marissa King

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Business and learning leaders alike expect great things from leaders-as-teachers (LAT) programs: enhanced professional development opportunities for leaders who teach, deeper levels of engagement for employee learners, and support for an organizational culture that thrives on learning, to name just a few. Many organizations leverage their leaders as teachers. Unfortunately, most of those companies struggle to gain traction and truly profit from the time and effort leaders invest in teaching. High levels of effectiveness are only happening in about one in five organizations using the LAT approach.In Leaders as Teachers: Engaging Employees in High-Performance Learning, ATD and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) partnered to identify and explore what high-performance organizations are doing to derive the greatest benefits from LAT programs.Join i4cp CEO Kevin Oakes as he discusses the findings and recommendations from this exciting research.

ATD Research Leaders as Teachers

In addition to research reports, whitepapers, infographics, and other materials, ATD’s research also is presented in webcasts and during in-person presentations at conferences and events. This blog post provides some highlights from an Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) and ATD Research report on MOOCs, and the associated presentation at the ATD TechKnowledge 2015 conference and research webcast.ATD/i4cp’s Research on MOOCsMOOCs are massive, online, open courses. They are typically free (although sometimes learners must pay to earn credit), and rely on a collaborative approach.  MOOCs got their start in academia, and millions have participated in academic MOOCs, many of which are offered by leading universities. However, critics are fast to point out that most MOOC enrollees never finish.Realizing the promise MOOCs hold for organizations and their workforces, ATD Research and i4cp surveyed 525 learning and business professionals, and published the findings in December 2014 in the report, MOOCs: Expanding the Scope of Organizational Learning. The study found that less than a quarter of organizations currently use MOOCs in learning. These MOOC users overwhelmingly felt that they broadened the scope of learning opportunities, although the research did find that users of MOOCs in organizations, like academic MOOC users, frequently dropped out.MOOCs Research at TechKnowledge 2015In January, Kevin Oakes, CEO of i4cp, presented on MOOCs at ATD’s TechKnowledge Conference in Las Vegas, which provided attendees with information on the latest learning technologies and how to leverage them. During that session, the audience of learning professionals was asked whether their organizations used MOOCs in learning.No attendees raised their hands, though, confirming the low usage of MOOCs. However, the session participants were enthusiastic about possibly incorporating MOOCs into their organizations’ learning offerings in the future. A few attendees had personally taken MOOCs in their own time, on varied topics.Highlights from the Research WebcastOn February 2,2015, ATD Research hosted a free webcast on the MOOCs research, featuring Kevin Oakes and Amy Rouse, director of operations training at AT&T, which leverages MOOCs in its training. The webcast attracted more than 500 registrants, and the recording is available here.That webcast not only provided an overview of the research findings, but also featured Rouse’s experiences with MOOCs at AT&T. For example, AT&T developed its own well-received internal MOOC that adapted an existing instructor-led class in business writing for MOOC delivery.The presenters also fielded questions from webcast attendees. One participant asked about the differences between MOOCs and e-learning, and Rouse responded that e-learning typically is more “canned” and occurs at the learner’s own pace, while participants in MOOCs are more engaged with a cohort of other learners and an instructor over several weeks.Get the Full Report and MoreThe full report, MOOCs: Expanding the Scope of Organizational Learning is available online. Members have complimentary access to a whitepaper version of the report.

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