The L&D Blog

Successfully sustaining the Learning & Development Strategy

After implementation of your plan you need to sustain the plan and in an ideal world, this should run with little input from yourself. If this was a reality you would be able to review objectively and manage the direction of the plan without any major work being required. Unfortunately, this does not always happen so you need to be aware of the pitfalls and areas where extra attention may need to be provided.  Continue reading “Successfully sustaining the Learning & Development Strategy”

Implementing the L&D strategy

A good idea is about ten percent  implementation,  hard work and luck is 90 percent – Guy Kawasaki

Having a well- considered plan and one that is implemented effectively will go a long way towards the success of your strategy; we recommend that your plan is written to include these 5 key areas:  Continue reading “Implementing the L&D strategy”

Mid-Sized Businesses Failing to Adopt New Approaches to Learning

Latest research from Towards Maturity reveals that mid-sized businesses are failing to capitalise on the benefits of learning technologies, but brings hope by identifying opportunities for success within these organisations.

Towards Maturity’s latest Sector Benchmark Report, Modernising Learning in Mid-Sized Businesses, launched today, shows that just 40% of mid-sized businesses (MSBs) are delivering learning solutions in time to meet the needs of the business. Only 10% understand and can demonstrate the value of learning in their organisation.

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Tips for choosing an external training provider

 

Anyone who has ever been involved in selecting training providers will know that it can be a stressful and confusing task.  How do you know that you have the best option from the thousands of training providers out there?  Are they going to deliver great training and offer the best value for you and your company?

We have put together 5 top tips for you to consider when making any selections based on how we select training providers and trainers.    We aim to only work with the best and the below ensures that we weed out the weak. Continue reading “Tips for choosing an external training provider”

L&D departments – why you should embrace working with a Managed Learning Service provider

You are being asked to work with a Managed Learning Service provider.

Who will take on the management of L&D activity such as sourcing training, booking administration and supporting employees with their learning needs.

But hang on a minute, that’s your job isn’t it? 

Or is it?
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L&D Managers – The real cost of sourcing, booking and organising training yourself

Your role as a Learning & Development (L&D) Manager is probably going to include managing the end to end processes, including working with business leaders and managers, designing training solutions, delivering solutions, budget management, and, hopefully for you, managing a team.  Continue reading “L&D Managers – The real cost of sourcing, booking and organising training yourself”

Priority Management – don’t get caught up in the whirlwind

“Plan your work  and work your plan, every day” is something that we’ve probably all heard,  repeated and wish we did.   The trouble is its hard to do as unplanned events arise which get in the way,   tasks have to be completed just to keep things as they are and before you know it the day is over and you haven’t done what you’ve planned to do.  Continue reading “Priority Management – don’t get caught up in the whirlwind”

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