Learning And Development

LEARNING

A learning and development strategy outlines how an organization develops its workforce's capabilities, skills and competencies to remain successful. It’s an important part of an organization's overall business strategy. Lancaster A. (2017).

Five key trends and best practices that companies should consider include the use of Mobile technology, following the way of social learning tools, consensus with organizational objectives, the ability to use adaptive learning principles, and efficiency.

Mobile has transformed the way companies work, interact, and collaborate.

Companies are rapidly adopting social media tools and investing in social collaboration tools to better engage their employees and foster a sculpture of learning.

Adaptive learning is a methodology that violates traditional models and allows employees to learn at their own pace.

Learning from the past worked in silos where learning professionals had little interaction or input from other parts of the business.

In order to determine whether the learning strategy is driving business results, companies should find a way to continue to measure its efficiency. Companies must determine advance measurements and include business measurement and learning. Wentworth. (2017).5 Trends for the Future of Learning and Development. (Online) Training Magazine. Available at: https://trainingmag.com/5-trends-future-learning-and-development (Accessed 7 Nov. 2017).

Karen May, Head of Personnel Operations at Google, explains that giving employees teaching roles makes learning a natural part of how employees work together, rather than what HR does to them. Nestle recently examined how learning could play a more strategic role in a world dominated by the need for innovation, agility and social, mobile and digital technology. To ensure that learning was not an isolated event but rather integrated into day-to-day work, the company implemented a series of video and digital presentations prior to the launch of the eLearning module. Through this apprenticeship program, the next generation of senior leaders was quickly introduced into a social and mobile world where agility and innovation are the disruptive norms. The pilot project served as the basis for how the company will use learning to conduct its program in a digital world where social and mobile must be part of each leader's toolbox. With the success of the pilot project, the learning team is evolving rapidly to reinvent other critical leadership programs. (Josh Haims et al, 2015)