Transformational technology

“The technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything.”
Sean Gerety

Have you made a fitness app or other technology a part of your daily routine? If so, you might identify with one or more of the following behaviors:

• You find yourself jogging around the house late at night in an effort to close the exercise ring on your smart watch.
• You rise from your desk chair every hour to stand and stretch in response to a haptic alert on your wrist.
• You’ve made friends in other parts of the world because, like you, they also run, bike, swim, or work out and are part of your fitness app’s social feed.
• You’d really rather sleep in but you don’t today because those friends also expect to see you in their feed and they liked or commented on your effort yesterday. They inspire you, and you inspire them – you really do!

This writer recently celebrated a milestone in swimming thanks to both some smart goggles that count every lap and keep track of every swim and a supportive, friendly swim community of thousands of other swimmers from around the world.

Although swimming, especially locally, is a solitary endeavor (I often have the lap pool to myself in my Missouri town), technology has transformed it, for me, into a point of connection, instruction, and inspiration. It has helped me log more than 2.1 million yards and 500 swims as of last week on my FORM smart goggles. When I first strapped them on at the close of 2019, I had no idea I would be accomplishing anything like that!

The same kind of thing is transforming the organizational learning experience. An Advantage Performance Group thought leader partner, Paul Middleton of 1st90, recognized early on the transformative power of habit-building consumer apps and has reimagined learning at work. He modeled his company’s habit-activating performance platform after some of the world’s most successful consumer apps.

The result is an evolving, award-winning suite of standard and custom mobile app-enriched learning journeys that are helping leaders and sales reps at some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies activate and accelerate the behaviors they need to perform successfully in their new roles. The 1st90 platform is also providing organizations with critical new insights about learning through data and analytics.

To learn more about different ways to leverage this award-winning technology, reach out to your Advantage partner for a personal walk-through demo or contact us to see it in action. We’d love to show you more!

-Julie Wolpers, writer-editor, Talent Development Tuesday

One great thing for 04.05.22 – Reprise: Onboarding new hires: 9 ways to get it right by Richard Hodge,1st90 strategy & content