Studio 5 Conversations

It’s May 2021, and after a year of a global pandemic and intermittent quarantines the light at the end of the tunnel finally grows brighter. Here at Studio 5 Learning + Development, our whole team has officially (finally) become eligible for the vaccine. Some of us have only gotten the first dose. Others are fully vaccinated. But soon, we--like the rest of the world--will all be able to engage in something we’ve been sorely missing: Human connection.

We re-emerge into a world that has changed indelibly, although we’re all still figuring out the full scope of that change. One thing that is certain is that after 2020-2021, the learning and development landscape has changed forever. Remote work saw an increased demand for virtual learning, and after decades of companies believing that in-person was the only effective way to do business, necessity forced many in leadership to re-evaluate their stance on digital learning and embrace it’s convenience. Conversely, after a year of living in the matrix, there is a rising tide among learning participants in favor of in-person learning. But companies will continue to have hybrid workforces, making in-person learning cost-prohibitive, and in some cases impossible. 

So what does that mean for professional learning and development? How will the lessons learned from a year-plus of homeschooling impact how we teach and train adults? What new norms will be created as companies redress their stance and policies on work-from-home (and therefore learn-from-home)?

We aim to explore these and other L&D themes in our new blog series Studio 5 Conversations. We don’t anticipate coming up with clear answers, but we are very interested in these questions and would like to invite others along for the ride.

Elizabeth

Chief Learning Officer | Studio 5 Learning + Development