Former US President Barack Obama once stated “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”
Arguably, this notion seems relatively young in the US business space but is gaining momentum. Empathy is a game-changing factor as businesses and organizations are:
We know many of you are wrestling with how to support the growth of your team members in new ways. Though it might be tempting to put employee development on the backburner right now, this is a time when we need it even more.
Intentional development of your people can build resilience and boost engagement – both of which will make you stronger on the other side of this challenge.
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Here at Vivayic, we are in the business of learning. It’s what we do. We wake up each day excited about the opportunities to increase human potential through learning.
As we partner with clients to plan, design, and build their new learning initiatives, we also prioritize the learning of our own people. We’d feel like icky hypocrites if we didn’t. We drive employee development in ways that fit our culture, drive our business forward, and we do so in a fully-remote team environment.
If you’ve checked out our website before, you might know about our company’s passion project — helping an amazing organization called Field of Hope. Vivayic has made a long-term commitment to build the capacity of Field of Hope (FOH). FOH is an NGO working in Africa to teach appropriate agricultural practices to youth and smallholder farmers.
“Wait, Vivayic did that project?” After four years of working for this company, I probably shouldn’t be surprised to hear that question anymore. This past weekend, I reconnected with an old friend at a wedding, and, as we caught up with each other’s work lives — it hit me.
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We have feet on the ground in Uganda! Those feet belong to Doug Kueker, Leah Gibson, Morgan Walkup, Andrea Tenney, and several more from Field of Hope.
The team arrived in time to be greeted by the rains. If you haven’t experienced the African rains, there truly is nothing quite like watching the clouds roll over the Nile River, seeing lightning crack across a sky with zero light pollution, and listening to the drops pound on an old tin roof.
If you’ve seen our Learning Solutions Model, you know how we do things. Before we jump into building the learning experience, we seek clarity. We also work with the client to proactively plan and evaluate the utility of the learning. When considering utility, one of the many questions we ask is, “How will we support implementation and drive utilization?”
A few months ago, while on site with a client, we worked to map out a solution architecture for their large learning initiative. As we talked through things, it became evident that a few performance support tools would greatly enrich the overall effectiveness of the curriculum.
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Note: Vivayic has made a long-term commitment to build the capacity of Field of Hope, an NGO working in Africa to teach appropriate agricultural practices to youth and smallholder farmers. This is the first in series of updates on the impact of our collective efforts.
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Last month, I attended the Western Pathways Conference in Salt Lake City. It was another tremendous event organized by Dr. William Simmon. At the conference, I helped facilitate discussion sessions for state career technical education (CTE) leaders in attendance. As part of those discussions, I shared a blueprint (see the link below) for how states might plan and execute a process to develop a statewide vision for CTE that could inform the development of new state plans required under the anticipated reauthorization of the federal Perkins Act.