Tapping a Specialty Tool

In the 1880’s the Swiss Army decided they required a more efficient knife for their soldiers. The army needed more than just a blade or two, they also wanted a screw driver so the soldier’s rifle could be stripped and reassembled as well.

Karl Elsener, the founder of a cutlery and surgical tool works in the Swiss village of Ibach was commissioned for the task.  His design also included a can opener and corkscrew – and was forward thinking for its time.

The ‘Swiss Army’ knife of course became legendary as a specialty tool with amazing utility. People depend on their ‘Swiss Army’ knives and carry them everywhere to help them meet any variety of unexpected daily challenges. 

imapMyTeam® was also designed to provide you a utility ‘people’ tool to help you meet both the expected and unexpected challenges of your work day.  This includes, but is not limited to, the ability to:

● Manage Relationships
● Improve Communication
● Build Trust
● Deal with Conflict
● Manage Meetings
● Embrace Change

● and more

Whether it’s cutting through the emotions of a highly charged situation or loosening the screws of stress for someone on the team so they can move forward, imapMyTeam® will help you adapt to the challenge at hand with just the right tool. 

Bite Size Is the Right Size

How do I best use imapMyTeam or some variation of that question is often asked of us. The answers are as different as all of the people and types of businesses that are imapMyTeam users (Thank you for being a user!).

In all of that variance there is one constant and that is bite size is the right size.

A recent Wall Street Journal article cited several research studies in traditional classroom training.  Fewer than 15% of participants successfully apply what they learn; within 30 days, 80% of content is forgotten and that figure jumps to 90% after a year! That does not mean you should not train; it means you need to support training with something else.

That brings us to the importance of microlearning.

imapMyTeam is a perfect microlearning platform.  Microlearning is generally characterized by low time commitment, small chunks, short effort and narrow topics – but, complex as a whole.

Many imapMyTeam users, after the initial burst of logging in and looking at everything they possibly can, settle in and adopt a technique of running a single report on a topic that is important and relevant to them at the moment. It typically takes less than 5 minutes to log in, read and understand what to do next. The learning is immediately applied and learning that is immediately applied is retained. Microlearning!

How to use imapMyTeam? On most occasions it should be in, out, small chunk, short time frame on a narrow/focused topic, with immediate application of the learning.  Of course there are exceptions to the rule, it can be used differently – and that will be a topic for another day.  For now, bite size is the right size.