Effectively manage your learning and talent  

Every organisation we work with is a knowledge organisation and every client, whether they recognise the term themselves or not, is a custodian of, and developer of, the organisation’s knowledge. It may be tired phrase, but people really are organisations greatest asset, and the organisation can only function if the knowledge (and skills) that their people possess is kept up-to-date and used effectively.

Our views on learning and talent are:

• Talent Management programmes should be organisation-wide, not just focused on top teams and high fliers.
• There is still too much focus on the measurement of training programmes (or e-learning programmes) rather than measurement of capability and competence.
• It’s important (but hard!) to directly link learning provision with organisational goals through proper, regular assessment of learning needs (as someone might have said: “half of our training budget is wasted, we’re just not sure which half“).
• Organisations which can draw a thread through objectives, performance, learning and assessment will be successful organisations.

We can help you to:

• Save money by streamlining and re-focusing your learning and talent processes.
• Implement approaches to identify and nurture talent wherever it is in the organisation.
• Implement smart IT solutions for learning, e-learning, assessment, statutory/mandatory training compliance and reporting.
• Focus the ownership of learning in the right places in the organisation, making sure that managers are accountable for the talent they manage, and making sure that learners recognise the need to take ownership of their learning and professional development.
• Implement self-service learning management systems, which reinforce accountability and free up learning and development teams to move from an administrative function to adding strategic value.
• Develop your learning and development professionals from “trainers” to “learning architects” – highly valued by the business.