Future proofing your L&D strategy

Future proofing your
L&D strategy

Laura Overton
Data in this presentation is drawn from 2000 staff participating in the Towards
Maturity Learning Landscape www.towardsmaturity.org/learner
and 500+ L&D professionals participtating in the Towards Maturity Benchmark Study
www.towardsmaturity.org/2013benchmark

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Laura@towardsmaturity org

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Talent

Business
Priorities

Technology

Change

New
Learning
Agenda

What driving change for L&D?
Comply with new regulations and
legal requirements
Help implement new processes or
new products
Develop a better qualified
workforce
Provide a faster response to
changing business conditions

84%
36%
89%
40%
89%
59%
93%
47%
91%

Increase productivity

49%

89%

Improve customer satisfaction

52%

Improve staff satisfaction/retention/
motivation

94%
55%

2013 N=447
% of or participants wanting this benefit

2008 N=261

L&D want so much more

10 years of Benchmarking

2004

2014

What do we know today that can help us
better prepare for tomorrow?

Fact

Learning innovation, done well,
delivers bottom line results!

+ Adding Value
14% Productivity
19% Staff engagement
9% attrition rates

Improving efficiency
12% Time to competency

-

22% learning delivery time
17% Training Cost

Top Learning Companies
TM Index

Those in the top quartile of TMI are delivering more results, faster!
Productivity
Agility
Efficiency

Top learning companies are defined as those in the top quartile of the @towardsmaturity index see appendixB for detail

Only

41%

of

L&D leaders believe that
their business leaders
recognise that learning is
aligned to the business

How?
•

Assigning board level accountability
for learning

•

Mutually agreeing business metrics
that learning needs to address

•

Analysing the business problem
before recommending the solution

Be Through

Touch we are
linking company and
individual aspirations to
achieve a transformation in
the business
Dr Chai Patel, Chairman
Lauraoverton #bethebest13


In a

VUCA

world

you can’t afford a 18 month
lead time on delivery!

How?
•

Prepare for change

•

Use of technology that allows you to
respond faster:

•
•
•

live online learning
social media
video

3 in 5 learners say the
course is effective in helping them
learn what they need for the job

88% want to learn
at their own pace

How?






Revisit the blend
Frameworks for learning
Transfer of skills
Facilitating collaboration

L&D need to consider
how to support a
continual learning
process that builds
confidence and
capability of workers
and improves business
results for organisations

Peter Cheese, CEO, CIPD

How?

Welcome innovation
Make time for reflection
Support sharing
Embed learning where needed
Equip line managers

• Developing high performing
sales and management
• Learning shaped by users
and managers

• Defining and supporting the
role of the sales manager in
the process
• ‘The power hour’ – applying
and sharing
• 55% participants agreed the
programme had impacted
sales



How?

Support recruitment and onboarding
Integrate with performance support
Integrate succession planning and
learning

• 62% of learners are
using mobile to access
resources to help them
do their job

• Half of them are using
their own technology
• Where are they learning?
– 51% When they need it
– 24% On the way to work
– 44% At home and weekend



How?






Establishing relationships with IT
Mobile
Cloud
Building the skills for flexible
learning

40%
agree

15%
agree



55% of CEO’s
believe that their
customers are most
likely to influence
their strategy going
forward
IBM Customer Activated Enterprise – Oct 2013



How well do we respond to our
learners?
2/3 of learners want their
learning to be recognised

23% of L&D reward or
recognise online learning

75% are happy to engage
with online learning

40% say staff lack skill to
manage online learning

65% are motivated by
technology that allows them to
share

18% think their learners
know how to connect and share

How?
• Understand how staff are
currently learning
• Challenge your own assumptions
• User led design
• Communicate constantly



Be It is

important for us to listen
to our audience on how they
want to learn


• Releasing learning
beyond the LMS
• Personalising
learning so that
staff can access
what they need for
their role
• Connecting and
community
• Short Sharp Videos


How?

 Ask – what does good like and
focus on that
 The right tool for the job
 Do not rely on the latest
technology to do the job for you



• 2 years ago 90% was f2f
learning
• 1st project to reduce call
handling times
– Short bite sized content
– Addressing top 4 issues
only
– Reduced call handling by
20%

• Success breeding
success
Be Be brave, challenge, take

risks but don’t get carried away
– do one thin, do it well then
move on!


How?
• Governance/ownership
• Modelling change in learning
• Speaking the language of
business



Future Proofing your learning
Strategy

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Compare with others at www.towardsmaturity.org/mybenchmark


Peter Cheese, CEO, CIPD

The CIPD welcomes
Toward Maturity’s New
Learning Agenda as a
framework for L&D, HR
and business leaders to
work together in new
ways, in the midst of a
rapidly evolving work
context, to deliver great
business results through
engaged and motivated
staff.

Download the
New Learning
Agenda
Today
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proof L&D information pack


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research and expert consultancy
services to help assess and improve
the effectiveness and consistency of
L&D performance within
organisations. It leverages the data
gathered from the largest learning
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