Gone are the days when learning only took place in classrooms and a lot of time had to be spent on it – with a brown bag session, you use a period for learning that everyone has blocked out in their schedule anyway: The lunch break!
“Bye bye canteen, hello brown bag session!” is then the name of the game at lunchtime, when a small, invited group meets for about an hour to be briefed on a topic in an informal setting and eat at the same time. No wonder, then, that the method is also known as “Lunch & Learn” in many places.
The origin for this type of mircolearning is found in the United States, where lunches are typically packed in brown paper bags, or “brown bags.” In addition to imparting knowledge, the focus is also on exchange and the opportunity to network. At the same time, the speaker can get feedback and new impulses for the topic he or she is presenting.
The advantages of such a format are obvious: compact and time-effective knowledge transfer without having to use working hours or the evening after work for it. A brown bag session is open to a wide range of participants and, in the informal atmosphere, invites those outside the field to share and provide input so that the speaker also benefits. And as icing on the cake, the host can market Digital Transformation by making the entire event series all about it.
