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For years you've been told that finding the ROI of your L&D isn't possible. But it is! You just need to be strategic about it. This list will grow with a wide array of resources to help you achieve that.
Job proficiency is about ensuring employees are proficient in certain skills and knowledge to a level that supports your business goals.
Skills gaps are emerging at an even faster rate than ever. Empowering internal mobility comes down to helping employees develop new and crucial skills.
In this episode we welcome Guy W Wallace, a Performance Analyst and Instructional Architect for Enterprise Learning & Instructional Development. Guy and Blake discuss aligning L&D and business strategy by putting a governance board in place with the CEO, creating advisory councils with specific people leaders to ensure alignment, and how to get the attention, acceptance and demand from business executives. You can connect with Guy via his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guywwallace/
Listen to this episode from The Strategic L&D Podcast on Spotify. Today we welcome Kevin M Yates, the L&D Detective who solves measurement mysteries. Kevin and Blake discuss overcoming the perception issue of L&D, transitioning L&D from being reactive to proactive, getting optimal impact by mixing human performance and business performance metrics, and how it’s the volume of content linked to your performance metrics that matter rather than the volume of content overall.
Discover how to have the strategic impact conversation upfront, prioritise training solutions and focus on solving business problems.
Why you should care about your L&D team capabilities and how impacts your ability to align L&D strategy with business strategy.
Learn why it's important to build trust in people leaders, the power of coaching and how to address high turnover in newer employees.
Find out how lean L&D budgets often drive innovation, why self-directed learning won't net results, and starting with strategic impact.
Learn how to do bottom up and top down capability assessments, as well as why more data doesn't necessary mean better for L&D strategy.
Discover why choice of team name matters for internally aligning L&D, and how that feeds into creating more meaningful & measurable training.
Correlation might suggest higher login rates directly lead to higher completion rates. Causation is about proving that it actually does.
Self-directed learning is an easy solution to employee training, but is it really the best approach to learning in the workplace?
Learn why you should spend more time diagnosing learning needs and how to spend L&D budget more effectively.
Learn why context always beats content for learner engagement, how to create buzz for training and why you shouldn't just rely on technology.
Discover why you should start with business strategy theory when designing truly impactful capability and competency programs.
Learn why you should pilot programs more and how to build strong stakeholder relationships between L&D and business units.
Learn how to effectively diagnose performance needs and create self-sustaining learning solutions that position L&D as business leaders.
Leadership development is a valuable tool to ensuring your workforce is ready for the future, but you need to set it on-track for success.
Hear why data always wins the day for L&D decisions, and how reframing the need for organisational learning helps win buy-in.
Acorn is spearheading the strategic L&D movement with the latest research and findings from industry leading learning professionals.
