Credit Where Credit Is Due: Recognizing Informal Learning

How do you surface, support, and give credit to the learning that happens outside of formal programs and most importantly, make the case for its value to the business?

Learning Recognition

Credit Where Credit Is Due: Recognizing Informal Learning

Nobody learned how to do their job from a course alone.

Think about it. The workaround a colleague showed you over coffee. The LinkedIn post that reframed how you think about stakeholder relationships. The podcast you listened to on your commute that gave you the exact language you needed for a difficult conversation. That’s all learning, and none of it showed up in your LMS.

Informal learning makes up the majority of how people actually develop on the job. And yet most organizations have no system for acknowledging it, supporting it, or connecting it to business outcomes. The real challenge for L&D isn’t just recognizing that informal learning exists – it’s figuring out how to surface it, give it the credit it deserves, and make a compelling case for its value to the business.

Because if you can’t connect it to outcomes, it stays invisible.

L&D is often so focused on what can be measured in a completion report that the learning doing the heaviest lifting goes completely unnoticed. That’s a problem worth talking about.

 

What We Will Discuss

  • What informal learning actually looks like in today’s workplace and why it matters more than ever
  • How to surface and support learning that happens outside of formal programs
  • How to make the case for informal learning to stakeholders who only trust what the LMS tracks
  • Creative ways to recognize and reward informal learning without turning it into another program

 

Come Ready to Contribute

Bring your ideas, your experiments, and your frustrations. Have you found a way to recognize informal learning that actually stuck? Or tried something that completely flopped? Either way, this community wants to hear it.

 

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May 22 2026

11:00 am CDT - 12:00 pm CDT

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