Create a Learning and Development Strategy
Build an L&D strategy that fuels organizational success and supports employee growth.
- Failure to gather and analyze internal and external data leaves organizations with a strategy that misses the mark in implementing learnings that support organizational performance.
- Lack of involvement from key players in developing the strategy often results in a narrow view that does not meet organizational needs.
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- Get on-demand project support
- Get advice, coaching, and insight at key project milestones
- Go through a Guided Implementation to help you get through your project
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Running learning and development programs without a formal L&D strategy leaves organizations without the crucial alignment required between learning, business goals, and future skill needs. Organizations with an L&D strategy that is grounded in internal and external data are effective at identifying and providing learning opportunities that enable the development of a thriving workforce.
Impact and Result
- An L&D strategy created based on organizational data effectively prioritizes the creation of learning initiatives that support strong leader and employee performance.
- L&D initiatives that address skill and competency gaps directly impact organizational success, thereby maximizing the use of organizational resources (e.g. L&D budget).
- Effective application and communication of the L&D strategy ensures employees have access to the initiatives offered, empowering a future-ready workforce equipped with skills and competencies required for success in the organization’s industry.
Create a Learning & Development Strategy
This program has been approved for continuing professional development (CPD) hours under Section A of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Log of the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA).
McLean & Company is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
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How to complete this course:
Use these videos, along with the project blueprint deck above, to gain an understanding of the subject. Start with the Introduction, then move through each of the course modules. At the end of each module, you will be required to complete a short test to demonstrate your understanding. You will complete this course when you have completed all the course tests.
- Number of Course Modules: 4
- Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 hours
Learning Outcome
This course will examine how to create a data-driven L&D strategy that aligns learning initiatives with organizational goals, closes skill gaps, and builds a future-ready workforce.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Recognize the value of an L&D strategy in fueling organizational success and supporting employee growth.
- Use organizational strategy and employee data to create a clear L&D purpose statement and determine learning needs.
- Create a portfolio of L&D initiatives by evaluating current programs and brainstorming new initiatives.
- Create and activate a governance framework and action plan to implement the L&D strategy and measure its effectiveness.
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Course Modules
Academy L&D Strategy: Introduction: Create a Learning and Development Strategy
Academy L&D Strategy: Module 1: Define the Strategic L&D Direction
Academy L&D Strategy: Module 2: Identify L&D Initiatives
Academy L&D Strategy: Module 3: Implement and Evaluate
About McLean & Company
McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Guided Implementation 1: Define the strategic L&D direction
- Call 1: Review gathered internal and external data.
- Call 2: Develop a purpose statement and draft learning needs.
- Call 3: Prioritize learning needs and develop goals and metrics.
Guided Implementation 2: Identify L&D initiatives
- Call 1: Evaluate existing L&D initiatives to determine what will be removed, kept, or modified.
- Call 2: Brainstorm new initiatives and assess the impact and effort of implementation.
- Call 3: Evaluate available resources and obtain approval for additional resources.
Guided Implementation 3: Implement and evaluate
- Call 1: Identify organizational barriers that inhibit learning and brainstorm ways to mitigate them.
- Call 2: Create a governance framework.
- Call 3: Build an action and communication plan.
Contributors
- Ann Schulte, EdD, Retired CLO/SVP, Procter & Gamble
- Catherine Lombardozzi, Learning and Development Consultant, Learning 4 Learning Professionals
- JD Dillon, Chief Learning Officer, Axonify
- Jennifer Hickey, Learning and Development Facilitator & Consultant
- Steven Smith, Senior Advisor, IMD and EFMD
- Su Diana, Learning & Leadership Development Consultant
- Victoria Woodbury, Learning & Development Manager, Folger Shakespeare Library
- Several anonymous contributors
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