LEO hosted an exclusive event in collaboration with Towards Maturity. It was a chance for senior L&D leaders to network with their peers and discover how to reap the benefits of a technology-enabled learning strategy.
Towards Maturity’s Laura Overton and LEO’s learning experts explored and lead a discussion on how L&D teams in global organisations can use the research to reduce time to competency and boost efficiency and effectiveness of L&D spend.
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LEO hosts Toward's Maturity: Modernising Learning
1. Modernising learning -
using the evidence
Piers Lea
Chief Strategy Officer – LEO
Laura Overton
Managing Director – Towards Maturity
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2. Business Transformation Through Learning Innovation
MODERNISING LEARNING: DELIVERING RESULTS
Feedback from participants on the day is included
in grey boxes throughout this slide deck
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3. 10 years of research
3,500 L&D leaders
44+ countries
1.5m data points every year
= An evidence-based approach
to modernising learning
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4. ARE TODAY'S CORPORATE
LEARNING STRATEGIES
KEEPING UP WITH THE PACE
OF CHANGE?
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5. WHAT HAS BROUGHT YOU HERE
TODAY?
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6. TODAY’S AGENDA
Progress update
Evidence based learning
11.00 coffee
Building a business case for
change
A roadmap for modernising
learning
New models of learning
Boosting agility
Lessons from the learning
leaders
1.15 - Lunch
600 L&D leaders
all sectors
74% decision
makers
44 countries
% multinational
5000+
learners
private and
public sectors
YOU
=
ACTION PLAN
+
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7. WHAT DOES A MODERNISED
LEARNING STRATEGY LOOK
LIKE?
• Aligned
•Workflow
• Simplified
• Holistic
• Personalised
• Continuing professional experience
• Impact vs activity
• Recognition of the informal
• Methods and media
• Just in time
• Technology
• Flexible
• Culture
• Mirror external behaviour
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8. MODERNISED LEARNING STRATEGY
Outputs
Responsiveness
Learning support
where needed
Technology
For
Less
Delivering
more
Modernise
[moh-der-nize]
Verb: adapt (something) to modern
needs or habits, typically by
installing modern equipment or
adopting modern ideas or methods.
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9. Sneak preview
Launch 6th November
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10. ABOUT BENCHMARKING
TM Index
Exploring effective practices of the top
performing learning organisations
New for 2014
the top 10%
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11. NEW MODELS OF LEARNING
Integrate
Learning
& Talent
Develop
Learning
Culture
Transform
Training
ALIGNING TO NEED
Customer
Activated
Learning
2 Way
Business
Alignment
EQUIP L&D AS AGENTS OF CHANGE
THE TOWARDS MATURITY NEW L EARNING AGENDA – A ROADMAP FOR CHANGE
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13. L&D PROFESSIONALS
TODAY WANT
EVEN MORE
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14. Resources
1 in 3 have increased
budget & team size
Audience
Managers
Professional and
technical
Apprentices &
interns
Customers and
supply chain
Skills
29% formal learning
e-enabled
69% compliance
(70% completion
rates)
Technology
200% increase
since 2010
19% budget
allocated
2 in 3 expect increase
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15. USING TECHNOLOGY
Delivering efficiency
17% Cost reduction
21% Volume
22% Delivery time
20% Study time
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16. WE ARE BUSY BEING BUSY
BUT WHAT IMPACT ARE WE REALLY
MAKING?
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17. 74% want change 2010 87% want change 2014
INCREASING
PERFORMANCE GAP
63% Top Deck
53% Top Q
51% reported benefits 31% reported benefits
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18. WHAT IS STOPPING US FROM
REALISING OUR EXPECTATIONS?
Lack of evidence
Not measured internally
What is the present impact – not using external evidence
Lack of engagement with key stakeholders
Alignment needs to be 2 way: need to understand the art
of the possible (more pilots)
Need to set the bar higher – we need to set the bar
higher. No one team can do this. We need to step out of
traditional roles.
Culture
Changing culture needed
Spectrum of learners to address
Not understand the culture of the learner & even if we do,
senior decision makers don’t
Projects lack focus – scope creep that we challenge with
external providers but not internally
Time
Overwhelmed
Busy people say ‘give us what we’ve always had’
Home vs work
Confusion/market madness
Skills of L&D
We need more courage
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19. This is not a time to give up, but to take another look at the data!
EVIDENCE FOR CHANGE
ALIGNING TO NEED
Customer
Activated
Learning
2 Way
Business
Alignment
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20. Gaining Market Share
Talent
SO WHAT CAN LEARNING
INNOVATION BRING
TO THE TABLE?
Delivering New Products & Services
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21. Gaining Market Share
17% improvement in customer
satisfaction
10% improvement in revenue
Talent
9% reduction in attrition
17% improvement in engagement
14% improvement productivity
12% reduction in time to competency
Delivering New Products & Services
Change new products & services 23% faster
Roll out new IT applications 26% faster & improve
efficiency!
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22. 2 Way
Business
Alignment Our goal was to achieve complete
transformation and it was imperative that we
achieve it quickly. This is why we made learning and
development a catalyst for change. In doing so,
we’ve shown that modernising learning has delivered
results that matter to our staff, to our residents and to
our shareholders.
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ALIGNING TO NEED
Dr Chai Patel, CBE
Chairman HC-One
23. BALANCING THE NEEDS
OF ORGANISATIONS
AND INDIVIDUALS
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24. HOW DO OUR STAFF LEARN BEST?
88% learners learn from collaboration with
team workers
79%from manager support
70%from Google
46% from formal education courses (17%
from classroom courses
55%learn on the way to work
82% want to learn at their own pace
Yet only 1/3 of L&D leaders
know how their staff actually learn at work…
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ALIGNING TO NEED
ARE WE LISTENING TO OUR CUSTOMERS?
Customer
Activated
Learning
31% find self-paced e-learning
courses useful
85% are downloading apps
to a mobile or tablet
80% willing to share what they
know using technology
93% of L&D leaders are
investing in self-paced e-learning
courses
Fewer than 1 in 5 L&D are
working with tools to build and
deliver apps
20% believe their staff know
how to connect and share
26. DATA-DRIVEN
DECISION MAKING
Business leaders use it
to:
Predict
Plan
Persuade
Personalise
L&D leaders don’t!
1 in 5 use learning analytics
or benchmarking to improve
service and performance
Data has become likened to oil as the
next great natural resource
Daniel Newman, Forbes July 14
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27. HOW CAN WE DESIGN A
BUSINESS CASE FOR
MODERNISING LEARNING
THAT WILL CAUSE
STAKEHOLDERS TO SIT UP AND
LISTEN?
Do your research
What are the organisational pain points/risks and how will your solution
help?
Identify your decision makers and your influencers – understand business
drivers AND personal motivators
Quantify cost of solution (including cost of ownership) and value of
benefits
Tips on using evidence
Internal evidence and research – business analysis and learner behaviour
External evidence – what are your competitors doing? Use case studies
and benchmark data to build your case
Tips on selling an idea
What will happen if you don’t do this? (ask yourselves first)
Focus on business impact – tangible and intangible
Capture hearts as well as minds
Know your moment – present the right idea at the right time to the right
people and have the tenacity to return
Tips on structure
BLUF – Bottom Line Up Front
Business language not learning jargon
Visualise the evidence
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28. Supporting learning and performance where it counts
NEW MODELS
OF LEARNING
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29. SUPPORTING CONTINUAL LEARNING AT WORK
What do I
need to
get
started?
What do I
need to
get
better?
What do I
need to
progress my
career?
What do I
need to get
out of a fix?
What do I
need right
here right
now?
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31. Transform
Training
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NEW MODELS OF LEARNING
Involving
stakeholders
Content design
Reward and
recognition
Practice and
reflection
Design with
the class in
mind
32. 66% provide job aids
37% equip line managers
with resources so their teams get
the most out of online learning
14% encourage learners to
share experiences and solve
problems online
12% have content curation
strategies in place
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NEW MODELS OF LEARNING
Develop
Learning
Culture
33. Supporting career progression:
18%
are using some form of Academy
All use skills diagnostics
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NEW MODELS OF LEARNING
Integrate
Learning
& Talent
19% agree that learning technologies
reinforce the way they recruit, on-board and develop their people
37. ‘I want to be able to do
my job faster and better’ 51%
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BOOSTING AGILITY
Respond
Faster
#1 motivating factor for learners
to learn online
1. To be able to do my job faster and better
Only 47% of L&D agree learning is
delivered in time to meet the needs of
the business
38. APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES IN THE
REAL WORLD
How can we
improve the
quality of formal
learning?
Getting Started
Analyse the problem to be solved: is formal
learning needed? What is effective and efficient?
What is the issue? What is best practice?
Ensure L&D have an understanding of adult
learning theories
Involve learners in design
Have a clear design & quality process in place to
understand needs
Design to engage
Going Deeper
Identify stakeholders who will influence
programme success
Blend cleverly – extend learning into the workflow
to
enhance the application of skills
Personalise – adapt learning to role or experience
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39. APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES IN THE
REAL WORLD
How can we boost the sharing of
good practice?
Getting started
You don’t need to be an expert or a content developer to add
value – become a connector, facilitator and conduit of useful
information
Model collaboration and sharing as part of formal learning
Going deeper
Build the skills to encourage collaboration in your
organisation
Establish a governance framework for sharing online (or
proactively support those that are involved in establishing
frameworks)
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40. APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES IN
THE REAL WORLD
How can learning
better support ‘talent’ ?
Getting started
Remove the silos – open the conversation with those that
count
Define what role you can play in specific initiatives e.g.
recruitment and on-boarding
Promote learning for all vs directed programmes and
experiences
Going deeper
Train managers – up to Board level to identify talent
Think through the role of psychometric testing and
implications for learning
Support learning & collaboration through a range of
initiatives e.g. secondments
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41. APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES IN THE
REAL WORLD
How can we use
technology to
respond faster to
change?
Getting started
Step back – don’t use technology for the sake of it
Consider your learners: what technology do they already
have to hand, what do they find useful and what are they
doing for themselves?
Exploit existing networks to respond quickly to change
Going deeper
Consider learning analytics and data mining to understand
behaviours and preferences
Encourage user generated content and use staff ratings to
quickly assess impact
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42. HERE’S THE CHALLENGE
Blend
different
technologies
Reinforce on-boarding
Identify business KPIs
Encourage
sharing
Comms plan in
place
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43. ……NOT AN OPTION!
SO WHERE DO WE GO TO GET
BACK IN THE FLOW?
Stagnate
[staɡˈneɪt]
Verb: cease to flow or move; become
stagnant;cease developing; become
inactive or dull
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44. SECRETS OF THE LEARNING LEADERS
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45. TOP DECK
ARE
DELIVERING
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46. TOP DECK
ARE
ENGAGING
73%
report positive staff behaviour
(21%)
64%
agree staff put what they have
learned into practice (25%)
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47. TOP DECK
ARE
HARNESSING
TECHNOLOGY
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48. DNA OF THE
LEARNING LEADERS
• Alignment (and resourcing)
• Active learner voice
• Design beyond the course
• Proactive in connecting
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49. EQUIP L&D AS AGENTS OF CHANGE
So how well equipped are L&D
to Modernise Learning and
Deliver Results?
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50. NEW MODELS OF LEARNING
Integrate
Learning
& Talent
Develop
Learning
Culture
Transform
Training
ALIGNING TO NEED
Customer
Activated
Learning
2 Way
Business
Alignment
EQUIP L&D AS AGENTS OF CHANGE
Modernising Learning: what skills do we need to deliver against the
New Learning Agenda?
THE TOWARDS MATURITY NEW L EARNING AGENDA – A ROADMAP FOR CHANGE
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51. Modernising Learning: what skills do we need to deliver against the
New Learning Agenda?
Evidence for change
Ability to write succinct business cases - deliver an elevator pitch!
Stakeholder influencing skills
Business communication skills (ability to communicate in the language of business)
Ability to identify value that L&D can offer to business
Business savvy/ commercial experience
Analytic capability to identify and use evidence successfully
Vision for change
Strategic mindset
Resilience
Tenacity
Aligning to business
Performance consultancy skills to provide clear definition of business issue to be
addressed
Stakeholder relationship management
Ability to understand learner journey and analyse learner behaviours
Learning evaluation and effective feedback
New models of learning
Ability to scope projects
Ability to understand the art of the possible
Realistic application of technology to design of the learning process
Curation skills - identifying and sharing content, ability to advise and signpost
Knowledge of new methods of learning
Encouraging Reflection
Professional understanding of how and why people learn
Understanding diagnostic and formative assessment
Developing ability to support formal learning
Boosting agility
Confidence in own Digital capability
Mobile app design for performance support
Responsive design
Clear understanding of technology to support learning application
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52. MODERNISING LEARNING: DELIVERING RESULTS
Align to need not to fads or technologies
Don’t be afraid to redefine the way that you add value
Listen and respond
Prepare for change
Get into the flow!
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53. I encourage business and learning leaders
alike to use the evidence from the
Towards Maturity Benchmark Study to
challenge traditional thinking about
learning, performance, talent, technology
and change. But don’t just read it, take
action where it counts to deliver lasting
business transformation.
Dr Chai Patel, CBE FRCP
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54. Next steps… over to you!
Full report will be available to download on 6th November
at
www.towardsmaturity.org/2014benchmark
Laura@towardsmaturity.org
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Welcome
Thank you for coming – we’re going to be exploring 10 years of insights
Thank you to LEO , our founding ambassador for hosting
Context for today – In a fast paced, technology driven , constantly changing world of work – Are corporate learning strategies hitting the mark?
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What are we going to cover today?
Together we are looking to turn data into insights and insights into action
Interactive question -
A modernised learning strategy involves adapting to new ways of business. Looking beyond the course, it involves new ideas and methods and building on new opportunities offered by technology.
A modernised learning strategy today means focusing on learning outcomes rather than inputs. Today’s L&D leaders need to respond faster, support learning and performance at the point of need and improve efficiency at the same time. It is not about the technology per se, but many are finding that modernisation cannot be achieved without it
This year’s study explores progress to date and how we can use the New Learning Agenda to accelerate progress and deliver results
Benchmarking is the process of comparing key performance indicators for one organisation with the indicators of others who are considered to represent the industry standard or best practice for that field.
Last year’s study outlined a New Learning Agenda, based on historical evidence, it provides us with a roadmap for modernising learning that is explored in the new report
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With the help of technology over 9 out of 10 L&D leaders are looking to:
Enable the business to deliver competitive advantage and boost agility
91% want to provide a faster response to changing business conditions
93% want to improve the way they support organisational change
Build performance
93% are looking to speed up the application of learning in the workplace
90% want to boost on-the-job productivity
91% are looking to reduce the time to competence
Support continuous learning
95% are looking to increase the sharing of good practice
90% want to better adapt programmes to individual need/context
Build talent
91% want to improve the induction process
93% are looking to improve talent/performance management
Engage learners
96% want to increase learning access and flexibility
90% are looking to improve employee engagement with learning
We’re doing a number of things to address this:
Resources: The average L&D team size across the organisations in this year’s study was 1 person per 300 staff with 31% expecting to increase their team over the next 2 years
Audiences: reaching more people than ever before- 9 in 10 organisations are offering training to managers, professional or technical grades, admin and other desk-based staff,
Skills: 29% of skills now e-enabled, Top deck 49% - 50% more likely to e-enable leadership, problem solving , comms
Technology - 19% of the training budget was spent on learning technologies but this proportion is set to increase with over 2 out of 3 organisations planning to spend more on learning technologies in the next 2 years.
Top deck are investing 35% of their budget
Top 10 technologies
93% e-learning objects
86% Live online learning
81% Surveys & questionnaires
80% Learning Management Systems
74% Mobile learning
74% Online assessment
70% Enterprise-wide information services
68% Best practice videos
66% Job aids
61% Rapid application development tools
Delivering on efficiency but how are we doing about adding additional value.
Our expectations compared with 4 years ago are considerably higher
But our ability to deliver has dropped significantly
This year only
1 in 3supporting change1 in 4increasing productivity1 in 5 responding faster to change1 in 10 monitoring impact
Interactive discussion
Top 10 barriers
69% Cost
68% Lack of user skills to manage own learning
66% Unreliable IT infrastructure
62% Lack of implementation skills amongst L&D
60% e-learning too generic
58% User reluctance
58% Line manager reluctance
56% L&D lack knowledge of potential
55% Poor past experience
52% Lack of quality e-learning to support business need
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Brandon-Hall identified three key priorities for business. Gaining market share (36.8% clear priority or critical to business in 2014), delivering new products or services (29.8%) and improving innovation (22.8%).
http://go.brandonhall.com/business_focus_2014
PWCTalent - 93% of CEOs recognise the need to change strategy for attracting talent
Conservative data gathered over 3 years from min 381 participants
Dr Chai Patel has written the foreword of the 2014 Benchmark Study – 2 way business alignment in the case of his company has delivered complete transformation
However for most of us:
Only 36% work with business leaders to identify KPI’s that they want to address
56% of learners say that they are motivated by technologies that enable them to network and learn with others and 41% access work-related apps and resources at the point where they need them most.
89% working in collaboration with team
79% support from my manager
70% web search (e.g. using Google)
67% general conversations and meetings
56% support from my mentor/coach/buddy
53% internal company documents
48% internal networks and communities
46% formal education course
31% self-paced e-learning courses
17% classroom courses
18% say our learners are unwilling to share
51% barrier – existing command and control
85% of learners are already downloading apps to mobile or tablet, with 62% using apps for social networking.
Regardless of the industry’s use of big data in decision-making, it is clear that we are not using the ‘little’ data already in our possession to inform the way that we modernise learning.
Good data vs bad data?
Outputs not inputs
Actual behaviour vs assumed behaviour
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Here are just some of the things some of us are doing this year (note that 45% have skill diagnostic tools but only 10% use them to tailor learning to individual need)
Need to be more systematic in the way that we deliver, not just jump on the latest fads.
New learning agenda has 3 areas of focus for helping organisations work through new models of learning.
building blocks to consider in transforming training
Involving stakeholders in design
46% formalise their approach to working with subject matter experts (rising to 73% in top learning companies)
29% agree users are involved in the design of the most appropriate learning approach (64% )
37% pull key stakeholders together into a steering group to support programme design and implementation (61%)
Content – self paced and live online
21% blend their use of several different learning technologies (from social media for collaboration to content delivery) compared to 56% in top
Designing with the classroom in mind - 24% train classroom trainers to extend learning beyond the classroom
Practice and reflection - 19% encourage learners to keep reflective learning logs (41%)
Top learning companies have shown that it is important to break down the silos between learning and HR/ Talent as learning innovation can support all aspects of the talent management process
Key element of the New Learning Agenda as a roadmap for change is the focus on speed and agility
Flexible learning for flexible workers
43% know what technology-enabled learning their IT systems can deliver (71%)
44% learners can choose to learn at places convenient to them (69%)
43% regularly review programmes and check that they support and enhance organisational goals
16% use widgets to help personalise the learning environment
38% ensure there is a communications plan for al key stakeholders
Are we helping staff do their job faster and better?
Action is critical but here is the challenge for those not in this room
Lets turn to the most successful in the study for inspiration
73% of the Top Deck have noticed positive changes in staff behaviour as a result of their interventions (compared with 21% on average) and what’s more 64% of them say that their staff quickly put what they have learned into practice (compared with 25%). And their staff are engaged as they are twice as likely to report that their learners would recommend their experiences to others.
More likely to use the cloud, social bookmarking, virtual classrooms, widgets and achievement badges, more confident with APPs less likely to use RAD tools/
More importantly , they are also e-enabling more business critical skills.
100% of communications training is supported with learning technologies
97% of leadership and management training
97% of team working skills
94% of L&D skills
91% of problem solving skills
91% of health and safety training
91% industry specific training
What differentiates top deck from all the others is absolute consistency between all of them on these 4 issues
All say that learning is relevant to business vs 60%
Welcom innovation, know how their learners learn, encourage peer to peer feedback
Blend a range of tools and technologies
9 out of 10 say learners can access clear information about what is necessary
When we look at the top deck, are we equipped to follow?
What skills exist in the L&D team
How are we building them?
Last year’s study outlined a New Learning Agenda, based on historical evidence, it provides us with a roadmap for modernising learning that is explored in the new report
Lets turn to the most successful in the study for inspiration