Can we use video to reinvent … internal communications?

In a recent post, Mitch Joel introduced me to Salman Khan.

At about minute 7,  Salman got my attention when he talked about how teachers used his YouTube videos as homework and changed the nature of their time with students in the classroom.  Now, instead of classroom time being “one-size fits all lectures to 30 kids fingers on their lips and blank faces, looking slightly antagonistic”,  the time is spent in the classroom is on working together with their peers on problems that advance their learning.  This way, the students learn are able to pause, repeat and watch the video ‘lectures’ in their own way and time to build to mastery.  By minute 15, I was sitting up as he described how the teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom.

The potential link between what Salman describes and the way we orient employees and build their institutional competence is clear.  And, using this approach to inspire the creation of powerful leadership development programs pretty obvious.

But, can we use technology to humanize the workplace?   Think about your corporate internal communications?  How much employee to human time are your employees getting – with peers, with direct reports, with their supervisors and executives?  And how can we make that time together more valuable – to the employee and the institution – by making it more human? And, can technology help? [more soon]

Tags: Communications, Disciplined approach, Employee communication, Humanizing, Mastery, Mitch Joel