Maxwell Wayman

Group Learning and Development Medcare Hospitals UAE

With over 8 years of experience in the Middle East driving learning and development within various international organisations, Maxwell is a champion of the significant impact professional development can have on a business. Maxwell is focused on transforming individuals, teams and organisations through motivation, inspiration and creativity. He has an exceptional track record in building and developing teams of highly talented individuals. His recent projects have been focused around curating individual learning journeys and introducing blended-learning opportunities from C-Suite Level down.

Conference Day One: Monday, 21 October 2019

9:20 AM Trailblazer Panel: Using immersive technology and gamification for training engagement and collaborative learning

With approximately 2.5 billion headsets being purchased last year, the emerging market creates huge opportunities and great potential for businesses looking to improve their learning and development departments. Virtual reality can help solve real-time business problems to create competitive advantage by providing better, faster and safer training. In regards to the gamification in the corporate environment, it can help create a progressive reward system into training, which will keep learners interested and motivated to increase their skills, knowledge and improve learning experience.

Key question – How do you facilitate the successful adoption of gamified training?
  • Exploring game changing immersive learning technologies
  • Elevating soft skills and immersively connecting people with virtual reality
  • Revealing the opportunities which gamification creates in the classroom

1:30 PM Creating a personalized journey and understanding individual development plan with learning management system (LMS)

When learners have control over the nature, timing and the direction of the learning process, this leads to the greater desire and motivation to learn. From their perspective, the role of the learning management system (LMS) is to provide easier and more accessible training. In addition, in today`s multicultural workforce it is more than needed to be created personalised trainings, which helps employees to learn in a unique way based on their skills, experience and background.

Key question – What are the tools available for the training department that enable agility to be at the forefront?
  • Customised learning items and learning paths to meet employee’s individual needs
  • Ensuring LMS is responsive to deliver easier access though portable devices
  • Understanding the value of customized corporate training

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Maxwell.

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