Our topic for this week’s chat is When Role Responsibilities Expand.

Inspired by a recent Learning Solutions article from Jane Bozarth – Nuts and Bolts: The ID (Job Description) Bucket Overfloweth – and our Learning Solutions 2019 panel Where is Instructional Design Heading, we wanted to further explore the expanding job skills and responsibilities people in L&D have been asked to take on, whether their job title is Instructional Designer or they have a different role.

For this week’s GuildChat, we’ll discuss the excitement of being able to use new technologies and approaches in our work balanced with the challenges of being asked to wear a large number of wildly different hats in our roles. Can we really juggle these increasing role responsibilities employers and clients are asking for (and where are they getting these lists of desired skills anyway)? Is it better for your career to be a L&D generalist and know a bit about a lot of things, or to instead specialize and go deep on just a few skills? Do new titles like Learning Experience Designer and Learning Engineer offer more clarity about what our roles do? And what lines should we, as an industry and as individuals, try to draw to establish what we reasonably can and can’t take on?

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