Trends and insights to help you deliver strategic learning across your organization.
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Absorb LMS surveyed over 200 executive decision makers, learning professionals and customer success leaders, across multiple industries, to find out what learning looks like today. The answers we received provide a window into the current state of strategic learning – the sweet spot where learning drives business outcomes.
90% of survey respondents said it’s critical to measure the impact of learning to drive business value, but only 25% currently measure business outcomes. If you can’t articulate to stakeholders the value you and your initiatives bring, they won't see learning as a business value.
Generational diversity in the workforce, at a time when many employees are working remotely, presents both opportunities and challenges. Organizations need to ensure different generations are learning from one another today, through mentoring, social learning, and knowledge sharing programs.
How can AI help leaders reassess learning problems? How do we continue to value human expertise in an AI world? It’s critical that L&D professionals think over these questions and start to experiment, so they can remain competitive by using AI to deliver better learning experiences, while upskilling at the speed of business.
The world of work is evolving at a pace that many are struggling to keep up with, and leaders are facing increasingly complex and ambiguous challenges. A strong leadership pipeline needs to be built in advance, so when the time comes to transition into a management or leadership role, the move is seamless.
L&D needs to focus on continuous reskilling and upskilling to make sure learners are equipped with relevant skills for their current positions and future career transitions. Targeted training programs and a culture of continuous learning will address current skills gaps, while you work on building the frameworks and workflows for proactive skills development.
Strategic learning is an intentional and organized learning approach that directly addresses business challenges and enhances business outcomes. When you optimize the learning process and enhance the learner experience, you can increase employee retention, productivity and engagement, enable new growth while expanding and sustaining your current customer base, and improve company-wide operational efficiencies.
Organizations need to be continuously preparing for enterprise challenges ahead. To move away from being reactive and towards building processes for proactive learning initiatives that drive business success, learning professionals need to be asking themselves:
How do you measure and quantify the impact of your learning programs? There are lots of ways you can articulate value to different stakeholders across your business, but it’s critical to correlate learning engagement with business impact. Instead of tracking learning metrics like course completions, assessment scores or content engagement, the focus needs to be on business outcomes, like employee retention, time to competency rates, average ticket resolution time, increased upsell opportunities and market expansion.
