Is your team up to the changes of the future?

Your People are the key to your success

You initially brought them on board for their exceptional skill set that contributed to your business success in the past. However, it is essential to shift towards future-focused skills to align with your goals and drive growth effectively.

Learning & Development is indispensable in steering your business through change. A good learning environment —

• allows your people to gain personal growth, while your business gains adaptability and strategic alignment.
• is a cheaper way to build capability than recruitment.
• makes employment at your business more desirable by strengthening your internal brand.
• turns the table on losing institutional knowledge and skills.

But traditional L&D, based on the schooling model (those training ‘events’ that come to mind when you think of L&D) is dying. Traditional L&D struggles to bring learning into the real world for lasting change and measures attendance and satisfaction, not results.

A Learning Environment needs to be worker led, not top down 

While it is essential to share your business goals and future aspirations, it is equally important not to dictate the path to achieve them.

Engaging your workers in identifying needs, problem-solving, and collaboratively building a plan fosters a sense of ownership. This approach enables them to develop both personally and professionally, leading to tangible results for the business.

Less is More:

You need to target your L&D efforts, to enable your people to solve their daily work issues to get the job done. No one needs ‘presentation training’ until they need to deliver one. 

But when they can get what they need when they need it – that’s engagement. 

Microlearning – short training modules in 10-15 minute bite sized pieces, gives your people the answers they need in a manner that maintains engagement while fitting into current workflows and supporting productivity and positive outcomes.

Training needs to be available when your people need it, not scheduled. Replace training days with social learning

The forgetting curve is a real thing as we have all sat through training days and then not needed that information until months later. Instead offer your teams the ability to find and discuss the problem they are trying to solve when it becomes a point of need.

Track results that directly impact your business success and your bottom line

A learning environment allows you to be agile in assessing your needs and measuring the impact, while you integrate performance development pathways that offer guidance to achieve success in your bottom line.

Not just available to the corporate market, a good learning environment is about better teams and building capacity to support them to become future facing, adaptable, problem solvers and open to change, building skills like:

• Communication training
• Leadership training
• Productivity training
• Culture & Diversity training

Nor is it the preserve of ‘the big boys’ with L&D departments and ‘management programmes’.

Good L&D is critical to businesses of all sizes and stages from small start-ups to multigenerational fixtures in the business world as it helps people adapt and succeed it the ever changing business world.

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