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Managing successfully the organizational Learning processes in the digital age doesn’t mean that it is enough to adopt new learning technologies that looks shiny and seem easy to roll-out, but is so much more. For a learning leader to position strategically herself and the learning function in the organization need to manifest new behaviours, in the same way that all the other business leaders need to change themselves. These new behaviours (based on the Deloitte digital leaders’ behaviours matrix) are about Thinking differently, Acting differently and Reacting differently. This article will explore how these new behaviour would look for the leaders in the learning field, starting with the understanding of the opportunities and risks brought by the new technologies (in any field, not only learning), to the openness to working and facilitate working in ecosystems and even to challenging business and operations to initiate disruption or adaptation strategies.

The recent Christmas ad of Barnes & Noble starring the legendary Tony Bennet and in vogue Lady Gaga is titled You Never Know Who You’ll Meet. For the generations that might have not heard about him, Tony Bennett is the man Frank Sinatra once acknowledged as the king, the "real" best singer of his generation.

In my previous article I have discussed about the ownership of the learning process at the individual level of the first two main actors involved in the learning process: The learner, The educator (teacher, professor, trainer, facilitator, coach, manager, leader, mentor).

Who owns the learning? Who owns your learning, more precisely? Your learning, as a process oriented towards whatever objective you currently have. Of course, the first intention of an answer would be “I do, of course”.

More or less, for training managers this is business as usual scenario. This kind of approach set many times a cultural background where the corporate training managers face a subtle pressure to satisfy his corporate customer, the line manager, by taking the order from she, without making a deeper analysis in a consultative manner.

Being a curious person, in 25 January 2005 I have become one of the first 100 Romanians on LinkedIn and one of the early LinkedIn adopters. I remember that for the first two years the dynamic of membership growth among my co-nationals was almost zero. Only after Facebook penetrated and changed the social behavior.