Episode 30: Rethinking Workforce Learning

Augmented reveals the stories behind the new era of industrial operations, where technology will restore the agility of frontline workers. In episode 30 of the podcast (@AugmentedPod), the topic is: Rethinking Workforce Learning. Our guest is George Westerman, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management and Principal Research Scientist for workforce learning at the MIT Jameel World Education Lab.In this conversation, we talk about how the industrial workforce learning system is broken. We touch on the history of "Pre-K to gray" workforce training. We discuss transforming the way workers get the skills they need to thrive in the context of the evolution of digital transformation. The trick is balancing work with learning, and changing the way learning happens.  But what to learn?  Westerman’s work has yielded the Human Skills Matrix.  And how to learn?  His research identified a new model of corporate learning and development called The Transformer CLO.Augmented is a podcast for industry leaders and operators, hosted by futurist Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), presented by Tulip.co, the frontline operations platform, and associated with MFG.works, the industrial upskilling community launched at the World Economic Forum. Each episode dives deep into a contemporary topic of concern across the industry and airs at 9 am US Eastern Time every Wednesday. After listening to this episode, check out J-WEL as well as George Westerman's profile on social media:J-WEL (@MIT_jwel): https://jwel.mit.edu/George Westerman (@gwesterman): https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgewesterman/**Trond's takeaway**: Rethinking workforce learning is necessary, important, and wide-ranging. It will be a massive effort with digital transformation at the heart but with the need for educational institutions, employers and the workforce all on board. Do we all agree what skills to teach or be taught? This is unlikely but developing a skills matrix is a start.Thanks for listening. If you liked the show, subscribe at Augmentedpodcast.co or in your preferred podcast player, and rate us with five stars. If you liked this episode, you might also like episode 17, Smart Manufacturing for All, episode 2, How to Train Augmented Workers, or episode 3, Reimagine Training. Augmented--upskilling the workforce for industry 4.0 frontline operations.Special Guest: Dr. George Westerman.