Dive Brief:
- Effective leaders have bought into the value of learning initiatives and the resulting power they have to drive change - a change that can help a company meet specific business objectives, according to an article at Chief Learning Officer.
- Author Doug Stephen, senior vice president of the learning division at CGS, cited a 2014 Brandon Hall Group study that found 70% of employers who align learning with business priorities are able to improve company revenue.
- Stephen outlined several areas where learning initiatives can impact positive change, including improved customer satisfaction and motivated sales teams.
Dive Insight:
Stephen wrote that employers who successfully use L&D to drive change need to integrate four key principles into their initiatives to ensure its true power: aligning the goals of the organization, the leadership and the workforce; elevating learning programs; employing more-effective strategies online with employee preferences/needs (such as teaching to several generations) and establishing objectives with measurable and repeatable results.
"Examining how L&D programs can support an organizations’ ability to drive change can add to the bottom line," Stephen wrote. "By turning L&D into an essential organizational pillar, change becomes less fearsome and more easily viewed as an opportunity to drive forward to the next level of success."
