15-minute Learning
Watch how this method is used
Meetings may take up a big proportion of your employee’s work life. You can make the most of it by ensuring that learning happens then. During your daily team huddles, you can have discussions and sharing. Your town hall meeting can be an avenue where learning of key company information happens. In fact, exposing your employee to a management meeting or a cross-functional meeting can lead to learning.
The focus of this workplace learning method is using your daily, weekly, bi-weekly team meeting as a platform for workplace learning. You can use team meetings to share best practices, train new skills and reinforce existing skills.
Here are some considerations you should take note of:
- Add the learning event into the meeting agenda
- Start the meeting with the learning event
- Split the ‘learning’ into bite-sized parts to be delivered over a few meetings
- Keep each learning event within 15 minutes
- Build in a practice session (role play, demonstration of learning)
- Review learning/ application at the next meeting
- Organisation / management
- Give employees room to practice ‘learning’ on-the-job immediately after the learning session
- Provide enough tools / resources and support to workplace ‘trainers’
- Start the meeting with the learning event when minds are still fresh
- Workplace ‘trainer’
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Keep learning sessions informal and relaxed
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Flag out only the key points (maximum 3) for each session
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- Workplace ‘learner’
- Ask questions if you don’t understand what is happening
- Take down notes / photos / videos to help you remember
- Practice the skills immediately, before the next learning event