Learning Consultant

Direct Supply

Direct Supply is building the future of senior living technology, helping connect the spectrum of healthcare to improve the lives of millions of seniors!

In the Learning Consultant role, you’ll play an instrumental role in equipping our Partners with the skills needed for the future of our business. You’ll advance our professional and technical development curriculum and learning experiences to support the organization’s development needs. You’ll collaborate to provide customized learning solutions and accessible learning opportunities to build the critical skills to fuel our growth.

You’ll work with the Director, Talent Development to create and implement the professional and technical learning strategy and drive adoption of new learning formats. You’ll consult with HR Business Partners and Leaders on both company-wide and department-specific learning needs to drive performance.

What You’ll Do and Impact:

·        Design, curate and facilitate professional development curriculum and personalized development experiences in alignment with the critical skills needed to transform and grow our business.

·        Evaluate, recommend, and implement an updated competency model to serve as the foundation for development and aligns with our talent strategies and ensure relevance over time.

·        Consult with HR Business Partners to define critical skills and curate learning paths and external opportunities to build technical and leadership skills.

·        Lead and evolve our Partner HyperGrowth Roadmap and activities to build Partners’ knowledge and skill in advanced technologies. 

·        Provide thought leadership and expertise to personalize and scale learning leveraging technology, including implementation of the Workday Learn LMS and on-demand learning.

·        Lead and refine our Partner Onboarding and Orientation programs to ensure a positive experience for new Partners joining Direct Supply.

·        Serve as the lead curriculum designer and learning consultant for our Sales Training Program. 

·        Embed inclusion and diversity practices into our learning programs, paths, and experiences.

·        Prepare impactful presentations, proposals, and materials to present to Leadership and influence them to gain alignment.

·        Develop systematic approach to measure learning effectiveness to ensure ongoing relevance, impact, and improvement of development experiences.

What You’ll Need:

·        Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Communications, Organizational Development, or related field

·        5+ years of relevant experience designing organization-wide learning strategies and programs within a software/technology company or working with a highly technical workforce

·        Demonstrated use of business acumen and strategic mindset to align learning initiatives to corporate objectives

·        Prior experience assessing and incorporating a competency model into the learning strategy and designs 

·        Prior experience assessing, selecting, and managing vendor partners to deliver learning solutions

·        Demonstrated success designing and curating learning content at an enterprise level

·        Demonstrated success in influencing and driving change management and engagement efforts for key company initiatives

·        Flexible approach to tailor programs and practices to our company and culture

·        Effective analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills

·        A polished and compelling communicator (writing and verbal) who can influence effectively at multiple levels

·        Experience successfully facilitating dynamic and interactive training sessions and adapting style for audience

Apply at: https://directsupply.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/direct-supply-careers/job/Milwaukee-WI/Learning-Consultant_REQ-2021-395-1

Senior Talent Development Consultant

Direct Supply

Direct Supply is building the future of senior living technology, helping connect the spectrum of healthcare to improve the lives of millions of seniors!

In the Senior Talent Development Consultant role, you’ll be at the forefront of advancing our talent programs and designing solutions to propel our business forward through our people. You’ll take a collaborative, data-driven approach to designing talent and leadership programs that accelerate the development of our Partners and strengthen our leadership pipeline. In this role, you’ll work with the Director, Talent Development to design, implement, and drive adoption of inclusive talent programs and practices that focus on leadership development, high-potential development strategies, talent management and succession planning. 

What You’ll Do and Impact:

·        Design, curate and facilitate leadership development curriculum and personalized development experiences for leaders aligned to the skills needed to transform and grow our business.

·        Design programs and experiences to accelerate the development of high potential senior leader cohorts and increase exposure to Executive leadership. 

·        Lead our Rotational Development Program, championing program goals and Participant interests while influencing senior leader stakeholders and HR Business Partners. 

·        Drive the ongoing development of and change management for company-wide talent programs and practices aligned to business objectives, leveraging Workday’s Talent Suite functionality with HRIS support. 

·        Lead and refine semi-annual talent review process to focus on the development needs of high potential and key talent and support HR Business Partners in talent review sessions.

·        Design and implement an effective succession planning approach to identify, develop, and move successors within the organization to strengthen the leadership pipeline and reduce risk.

·        Support critical role and skill identification and partner with HR Business Partners and Talent Acquisition to build internal and external talent plans for the organization and by area. 

·        Prepare impactful presentations, proposals, and materials to present to Senior Leadership/Executives and influence Senior Leadership to gain alignment.

What You’ll Need:

·        Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Communications, Organizational Development, or related field

·        8+ years of experience designing organization-wide talent strategies and programs for a business, including proven consulting experience in working with senior-level leadership

·        5+ years of relevant experience within a software/technology company or work with a highly technical workforce

·        Demonstrated success in driving change management efforts and engagement for key company initiatives

·        Effective analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills

Additional Items of Interest:

·        Experience designing talent programs in Workday

Apply at: https://directsupply.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/direct-supply-careers/job/Milwaukee-WI/Senior-Talent-Consultant_REQ-2021-335-1

Instructional Design Consultant

Northwestern Mutual

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

What's the role?

The position is aligned to the learning organization supporting Operations. The Senior Instructional Designer is responsible for contributing to design projects for the creation of high-quality learning and performance support solutions for assigned business areas. The role will actively participate in project scoping, resourcing and design strategy development. The position will work in a centralized instructional design team to define learning design objectives, approaches, and solutions and translate learning strategies into design action plans and deliverables. This role will use a continuous learning and improvement framework as the foundation for design and will follow an agile design process throughout the design effort to accelerate design. On large scale design efforts, this position may have oversight of the overall development effort while delegating program development to a design team.

Collaborates with performance consulting learning teams to develop effective tactical strategies and solutions to address performance needs for assigned business areas, leveraging sound learning pedagogy, design principles and an array of learning strategies.

Develops effective instructional design strategies that focus on different ways to deliver and deploy learning to ensure completion of goals and learning objectives. Designs learning that is scalable and able to be repurposed. Designs blended learning solutions that integrate instructor-led learning, eLearning, performance support tools, social learning and action learning to develop solutions that help learning effective transfer learning to the job.

Scopes effective near and long term strategies and solutions to address performance needs, including timelines, resources, goals, constraints and costs. Leads and manages all facets of design and development of learning and performance support solutions, including leading a design team on larger efforts. Oversees the quality of the design work and communicates progress of solution design and development to the performance consulting learning team.
Conducts instructional analysis to assess requirements and needs of targeted audience in order to improve performance, including interview subject matter experts and conduct other research to develop and validate content needs, identify existing learning materials that may be leveraged or modified to support learning needs, research potential vendor solutions to help meet learning and performance support needs for assigned business areas.

Designs and develops learning and performance support solutions using a variety of instructional design methodologies and content development tools.
Works with instructional design team to identify business metrics for specific solutions that enables effective and informed decision-making by business areas and performance consulting teams. Embed measurement strategies into solution design to gauge and calculate the impact of learning on business results.

Partners with internal instructional design team members, as well as business training teams and SMEs to design learning solutions. Partners with assigned business areas to secure the needed resources from business to support design and development. Ensures the quality of design team solutions, providing feedback and coaching to design and development team members as needed.

Stays current on emerging learning trends, including innovation best practices, technologies, capabilities and methodologies in the design and development of solution offerings. Collaborate with Learning Innovation Strategist to research emerging learning approaches, platforms and practices and provide recommendations for their use with assigned business areas.

Provides guidance on content development standards for design and development consistency and application of best practices. Collaborates with design resources to build a common design architecture; creating content standards and templates for use in development; and developing design work processes and workflows to streamline, automate and improve development efficiency and effectiveness. Utilize agile design methodology to accelerate development of solutions.

Bring your best! What this role needs:

*A minimum of 5-7 years of instructional design, development and evaluation experience, with demonstrated knowledge of principles, practices and procedures of instructional design. Experience with agile learning design methodology preferred.
*Knowledge of adult learning principles and the proven ability to apply them in learning and performance support design efforts.
*Advanced experience using content design and development tools such as Blackboard, Articulate, Adobe Creative Suite, Captivate, Lectora and social media.
*Demonstrated experience working in complex organizations and meeting the needs of multiple business partners with diverse needs.
*Working knowledge of and experience with learning management systems.
*Bachelor's degree in instructional design, adult education, organizational development or related field. Master's degree in instructional design or adult learning preferred.
*Knowledge of learning innovation and technology practices.
*Strong project management skills.
*Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and deliver within scope, on time and within budget.
*Ability to develop modular and blended learning and performance support solutions including storyboards, job aids, participant/instructor manuals, knowledge management and collaborative learning.
*Demonstrated ability to anticipate, identify and plan for obstacles or barriers to learning and performance support solutions.
*Prior experience working with instructional design principles and practices (ADDIE) including adult learning theories, interactive training learning design, eLearning design principles for both synchronous and asynchronous strategies.
*Prior experience managing vendor relationships and solutions to help meet business learning and performance support needs.
*Excellent oral and written communication skills required.
*Demonstrated ability to facilitate and work effectively with people at all levels; demonstrated diplomacy, sensitivity and flexibility in adapting to rapidly changing needs and priorities; quick, effective decision-making skills.

This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Required Certifications:

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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To apply, click on the link below:

https://northwesternmutual.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CORPORATE-CAREERS/job/Franklin-WI-Corporate/Instructional-Design-Consultant_JR-17687-1

Instructional Designer – 0023844

ManpowerGroup

US-WI-Milwaukee

Description

The Instructional Designer is responsible for designing and building learning content for key functional programs, professional skills, and leadership training to support components of ManpowerGroup’s talent strategy.

Be part of a growing team that will help shape consistent learning across a diverse group of brands and disciplines. The Instructional Designer works with various stakeholders to analyze audience and business need and offer innovative, engaging training solutions that drive performance.  They will design, build and evaluate the learning.    

Our challenge to you – Use your skills in adult learning and instructional design to develop ManpowerGroup employees, improving their performance to better serve customers.   

• Conduct audience and needs analysis to design impactful learning solutions 

• Design and develop learning in a variety of modalities.  

• Evaluate learning effectiveness and demonstrate return on investment 

This role will be focused on a single project for 12-18 months that leverages Whatfix inside of an applicant tracking software application. From there, the Designer will have a variety of projects across both job skills and professional skills.  Looking for someone newer to career looking to develop and grow with us. Graphic design skills a big plus.  The team has two Senior Designers to be great mentors and collaborators!

Other Roles 

We are a competitive pay for performance culture and we love finding motivated individuals to enjoy a strong total rewards package and an award winning culture. Success in this role looks like: 

• Strong impact and high productivity 

• Learning that improves performance or changes behavior 

• Agility in design and process 

Qualifications

Required:

 3 years in adult learning, training, or instructional design role · Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent · Proficiency in multiple training modalities such as: document design, eLearning design tools, performance support technology, video editing, and graphic design.

Nice to Have:

 Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or Master’s Degree in education or instructional design/technology  

 Relevant certifications related to design or facilitation ·

 Experience working with DAP technology

ManpowerGroup is an EOE/AA/Vets/Disabled Employer

Travel: No

Organization: ManpowerGroup

Job: Human Resources

Click on the link below to apply: https://manpowergroup.taleo.net/careersection/direct_apply_url/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=0023844

Posted 3/1/2021

Creative Learning Experience Specialist

Johnson Financial Group

Overview

Johnson Financial Group is looking for a Creative Learning Experience Specialist. This individual is a creative adult learning expert who’s looking to use their instructional design skills to create and design content that engages learners in a variety of ways. Make an impact on the organization and associates’ by identifying, designing and delivering learning experiences that develops associates in their current roles, prepares them for future roles, and strengthens teams across the organization.

Make an Impact.

• As a trusted consultant, you conduct needs assessments and consult with team members or other key stakeholders to identify organizational training needs related to: professional, management and team development. You source external content and vendor relationships as needed. Training effectiveness is measured allowing you to identify and implement program enhancements.
• As an instructional design enthusiast, you select the appropriate delivery method (instructor-led training, e-learning, blended learning, job aids etc.) to ensure learning needs are appropriately met. Best practices and adult learning theories are applied to course design and facilitation. You leverage rapid and agile development techniques and processes to design learner-centric experiences.
• As an engaging facilitator, you facilitate training sessions as needed, providing a positive and engaging learning environment for participants. Being technically sound, you proficiently use technology options for designing and facilitating learning – i.e. webinar, podcasts, virtual instructor led etc. to enhance participant experience and transfer of knowledge and skills.
• As an associate development advocate, you identify learning paths for associates that align to organizational competencies. You partner and utilize internal talent to design and deliver training as appropriate.

What we’re looking for?

• An individual with a Bachelor’s Degree in human resources, instructional design, communications or related discipline preferred with a minimum of 1-2 years instructional design and facilitation experience.
• Experience using learning technologies, including virtual meeting and training tools, eLearning authoring software and video development with an aptitude in working with new technologies or systems.
• A strong communicator with knowledge of training and development standards and best practices.

Apply now.

Creative Learning Experience Specialist in Racine, Wisconsin | Careers at Johnson Financial Group (icims.com)

Why you’ll love working here.

Johnson Financial Group is proud to be named a 2021 Top Workplace! As Wisconsin’s largest family-owned financial services company, we have a genuine mission to make every community better because we’re there. At 50 years and growing, you’ll experience a welcoming culture unlike any other that inspires, challenges, and empowers associates to give their best in the communities where they work and live. At Johnson, you’ll make a positive impact on the organization and associates’ lives and experience a sense of purpose unique to an organization that truly plans for the long term.

Johnson Financial Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage Minorities, Women, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities to apply. We embrace difference, welcome diversity and value a culture of respect.