| |MAY 20198Consultants ReviewNEW AGE LEARNING WITH GURUKUL LEARNING ­ A PERFECT BLENDSmita Venkataraman is the Vice President of Human Resources and Corporate Communications at AGS Health, a multi-award winning global revenue cycle management Company. With over 19 years of deep experience across all facets of HR, Smita specializes in strategic leadership development, building high performance teams, rewards design, top talent mentoring programs, and establishing winning employer brands. She has worked across multiple industries including management consulting, retail, IT, global publishing, and ITeS sectors. She is a regular speaker in academia and industry on areas pertaining to employer branding, leadership skills, new age HR technology, and talent management best practices.By Smita Venkataraman, VP - HR and Corporate Communications at AGS Healthn Ancient India, teachers or Gurus were epitomes of knowledge and wisdom. They would train their proteges in special places of learning i.e. Ashrams or Gurukuls where the pedagogy was a blend of in-person in-struction, practice skill application, deep introspection, group discussions to exchange ideas, mentoring, and most importantly, a constant endeavor to improve on current knowledge and skills through scientific inquiry. Fast Forward to 2019. A flat world has brought us closer both real-time and virtually, flooded us with ex-citing tech-driven learning tools and platforms, and en-abled 24/7 access to knowledge at our fingertips. But the underlying essence of learning is the same. Human connect, the power of mentoring, of rich in-teraction with fellow learners to create new synergies in peer learning, of being coached by someone who has been there and done that and applying those skills and knowledge in an environment that empathetically cor-rects and teaches ­ does not change. Tools and technology are definitely an excellent en-abler to the learning eco-system but they can never re-ally replace human connect. So how do we balance the timeless essence of human learning with rapidly evolv-ing learning technology to get the best of both? One approach is to run the L.E.A.R.N.filter method. L ­ Laborious E ­ Empathy "When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn." - Confucius (551-479 B.C.)IIN MY OPINIONSmita Venkataraman
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