Recession proof your learning provision
Laura Overton, MD Towards Maturity
‘These are harsh times and right now most businesses are focused on survival. So why bother with skills training?’ This is the challenge in the Alliance of Sector Skills Council’s latest ad campaign. And it is a good question to think about. Skills are high on the government agenda at the moment – the high profile focus on train to gain, apprenticeships and diplomas on poster boards and the television can’t be missed. But are skills uppermost in the thoughts of business leaders? It is clear that their focus is now on business efficiency; each cost item has to pull its weight. So what can we do to ensure that learning is adding value?
Towards Maturity has just released Driving Business Benefits – a new suite of reports resulting from research with 300 organisations to find out how learning and development professionals are adjusting to business demands for delivering more with less.
The study is the third in a research series over the past four years looking at trends in the use of learning technologies1 in the workplace. We now have data on the experiences of over 700 organisations that have invested in learning technologies in the workplace. Over the years we have been keen to look beyond the hype to understand why some organisations are delivering…