future proofing your l&d strategy

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What do we know today that can help us better prepare for tomorrow? Towards Maturity celebrates ten years of research into effective learning practices with this presentation first delivered at Learning Technologies, the UK’s leading workplace learning event. Laura Overton the MD of Towards Maturity outlines nine steps to help L&D organisations prepare to deliver the future of learning. The session draws on data from 500+ L&D professionals participating in the 2013 Towards Maturity Benchmark – see www.towardsmaturity.org/2013benchmark and 2,000 learners taking part in the Learning Landscape audit, see www.towardsmaturity.org/learner for more details.

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Future proofing your L&D strategy

Laura Overton

Laura@towardsmaturity org

Lauraoverton

Images courtesy of freedigitalphotos.netNew Learning Agenda graphic courtesy of Brightwave

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

Talent

Technology

Change

New Learning Agenda

Business Priorities

What driving change for L&D?

L&D want so much more

Improve staff satisfaction/retention/ motivation

Improve customer satisfaction

Increase productivity

Provide a faster response to changing business conditions

Develop a better qualified workforce

Help implement new processes or new products

Comply with new regulations and legal requirements

55%

52%

49%

47%

59%

40%

36%

94%

89%

91%

93%

89%

89%

84%

2013 N=447

2008 N=261% of or participants wanting this benefit

10 years of Benchmarking

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

2004 2014

Learning innovation, done well, delivers bottom line results!Fact

Adding Value

14% Productivity

19% Staff engagement

9% attrition rates

+ Improving efficiency

12% Time to competency

22% learning delivery time

17% Training Cost

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Top Learning Companies

TM Index

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

AgilityEfficiency

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

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Be Through Touch we are linking company and

individual aspirations to achieve a transformation in

the business

Dr Chai Patel, Chairman

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 innovationMake time for reflectionSupport sharing Embed learning where neededEquip line managers

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• 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 on-boarding Integrate with performance supportIntegrate succession planning and learning

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• 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

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How?

Establishing relationships with IT Mobile Cloud Building the skills for flexible

learning

40%agree

15%agree

Eg users encouraged

To use own devices fo

r learning

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

How well do we respond to our learners?

2/3 of learners want their learning to be recognised

75% are happy to engage with online learning

65% are motivated by technology that allows them to

share

23% of L&D reward or recognise online learning

40% say staff lack skill to manage online learning

18% think their learners know how to connect and share

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How?• Understand how staff are

currently learning• Challenge your own assumptions• User led design• Communicate constantly

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• Releasing learning beyond the LMS

• Personalising learning so that staff can access what they need for their role

• Connecting and community

• Short Sharp VideosBe It is important for us to listen to our audience on how they

want to learn

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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

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• 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!

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

business

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Future Proofing your learning Strategy

How future proof is your L&D strategy?Compare with others at www.towardsmaturity.org/mybenchmark

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.

Peter Cheese, CEO, CIPD

Download theNew Learning

AgendaToday

Or ask us for your future proof L&D information pack

www.towardsmaturity.org/2013benchmark

This study is made possible thanks to Towards Maturity’s Ambassadors:

Leading learning organisations who share our passion that independent research should be freely available to all .

To join or find out more go to:

www.towardsmaturity.org/ambassadors

About Us Towards Maturity is a benchmarking practice that provides authoritative

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 technology benchmark in Europe.

Download our case studies to support your business case for change at

www.towardsmaturity.org

Find out your own Towards Maturity Index to see if you are amongst the

top learning companies at http://mybenchmark.towardsmaturity.org/

LauraovertonTowardsmaturityNew Learning Benchmarksn

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