Many years ago at a big presentation on staff coaching I was asked about the practical issues related to modelling excellence.

The person asking the question wanted to how what specific things they could do to encourage their older staff to show younger staff what they do, and how they do it. I didn’t have a specific technology that really solves the problem but I think I have just seen it.

It’s not so much the video itself but the whole infrastructure of Youtube that is being used in a very innovative, and emergent way.

The guy in the video is called Jeong-Hyun Lim. He is not likely to be known to the average HR professional in China but he is well known on the internet for his self-recorded video on Youtube. He used the pseudonym ’Funtwo’ and he uploaded his video about a year ago. Since then over 7,000,000 people have seen it.

Yes, that’s 7 million .....

Training Methodology
The video takes an arrangement of Pachebel’s Canon in D and really pushes it to the limit. Jimmy Hendrix he is not. He’s actually better.

More importantly, other young guitarists have tried to emulate him and have uploaded their own version of Pachebel’s Canon in D. It seems to have created the kind of buzz that HR and training professionals would sell their mothers for.

There is no logical reason why the same kind of video cannot be created for company level training in component design, pharmaceutical research, marketing best practices, customer care etc. After the training, the participants could view the video and then make their own. Their objective would be to make a video to the same standard.

All using Youtube, which is free, and a cheap video camera. Beats the pants off Rapid Elearning.

The training participants won’t achieve the same results immediately but nobody ever lost out by targetting the sun. They might just get to the moon and that’s far enough.

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