Tech Enablement Series: Guides & Tutorials (TechDocs)
Certain knowledge is stable enough to bottle it up into a guide. Such guides and tutorials can be a very effective way to get your workforce on the same page. However, there are a few possible pitfalls. Learn how other companies have dealt with similar issues, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Splunk, Spotify, and Uber. In this […]
Tech Enablement Series: Collaborative Learning
You likely have a lot of internal knowledge trapped in the heads of your best people. This leads to silo’d organization and makes it hard for new hires to get up to speed. Enable shared understanding through collaborative learning. When anyone can easily teach and mentor, companies develop more capable, nimble, and resilient teamwork. In […]
Tech Enablement Series: Technical Onboarding
No more “sink or swim” onboarding. Encode exactly how your company does what it does — down to your technical stack, toolchain, and processes. Institute smart processes that get people up to speed quickly and comprehensively, inspiring faith that this is a place where people can do the very best work. This talk is based […]
State of Employee Enablement: What and how to strategically prioritize during industry uncertainty
As many organizations downsize, it’s crucial more than ever to ensure technical teams are effective and impactful. The ability to identify what and how to improve and prioritize them becomes the differentiator to thrive. Ryan Richardson (SVP of Corporate Learning at Honor) as he shared his learnings from helping innovative tech companies, in various sizes […]
Investing in Maturing Technical Onboarding Programs
“Investing in maturing technical onboarding programs” was originally presented to TechKnowCon on Jan. 12, 2023. New Hire onboarding at Microsoft has continued to mature with additional thought, processes, and efforts being placed for improving the onboarding programs at all levels. To help groups gauge their programs for quality, and maturity and to understand where there […]
Leader Spotlight with Chris Shaffer of Microsoft
The original talk was given in October 2022. In the 34+ years that Chris has been at Microsoft, he has seen and has been a part of many changes and progress within the organization. His journey began as an engineer, who found his passion for engineering excellence early on, but the concept was still new. […]
Leader Spotlight with Fabien Loupy of SSENSE
The original talk was given in Aug. 2022. Fabien Loupy (VP of Technology at SSENSE) spoke about how he helped SSENSE become more than just a high-end fashion e-commerce site. Scaling from 40 to 250+ engineers, Fabien has been a crucial part of their rapid transformation into becoming one of the most well-known tech-enabled companies […]
Measuring the Effectiveness of Tech Learning Programs
The original talk was given in July 2022. “Beyond Attendance and Smile Sheets: Measuring the Effectiveness of Tech Learning Programs” Rajon will shared different ways to think about what to measure and practical steps to collect the necessary data. This data can then be shared as insights to determine if gaps within the organization have […]
Tech Enablement at Peloton
This original talk was given in March 2022. Thansha shared about Peloton’s journey from Tech Learning to Tech Enablement, and how they shifted to focus on creating an environment to help set up their new hires for success.
Learnings from Salesforce: Actually Useful Cloud-Native Skills
The original talk was given in February 2022. So your org is involved in a cloud-native transformation, and you’ve been tapped to help prepare engineering skills. Official guidance around reskilling your engineering audience to cloud-native usually revolves around getting cloud certs, but that doesn’t actually help you reach a meaningful outcome! In this talk, you’ll […]
Technical Onboarding Discussion Panel
Holly Ellis (Coinbase), Jasmine Robinson (Netflix), Gabrielle Miller-Messner (LinkedIn), and Simeon Franklin (Twitter) spoke about how they handle new hire onboarding.
Learning Labs at Splunk
