Emperor's New Clothes: Why Most Workplace Training Fails to Impact Organisational Performance

This webinar was part of the Learning Technologies 2024 Autumn Forum. It took place on the 17th of October 2024.
Speakers features:
Adrian Harvey, CEO at Elephants Don’t Forget
Philip Allen, Head of Learning at PIMFA
About this webinar:
A concerning 44% of L&D practitioners surveyed for this session at the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum 2024 believe their C-suite leaders doubt L&D’s ability to contribute to the bottom line of their business.
What’s the issue? It’s not necessarily the training itself, but rather our approach to it. Are we prioritising speed and cost over effectiveness, theory over practical competence, and ticking boxes over real outcomes?
The boardroom lexicon is clear: profit, growth, efficiency, and productivity - yet these descriptions are conspicuous by their absence in most L&D rhetoric.
This 60-minute, on-demand webinar explores these challenges and showcases how L&D professionals can align their training interventions and learning programs with the boardroom’s core concerns and lexicon.
We delve into the reasons behind L&D’s underrepresentation at the C-suite level and explore strategies to overcome this barrier. With LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report still highlighting the prevalence of “vanity metrics” to measure success and satisfaction with learning programs, we detail how organisations like Microsoft, LV= Financial Services, NewDay, Moneybarn, and Danske Bank are quantifying their L&D initiatives in monetary terms.
By focusing on tangible business outcomes such as reducing costs, improving customer service, and enhancing efficiency and quality, these organisations are aligning L&D with strategic goals.
Watch this webinar now to discover how you can transform your L&D function, shift the perception of its value, and drive real business impact.

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This webinar was incredibly insightful! I’ve learned a lot about how to align L&D programs with core business objectives like profit, growth, and efficiency. The discussion on moving away from vanity metrics to tangible business outcomes, such as reducing costs and improving customer service, was especially eye-opening. Thanks for sharing these valuable strategies-it’s clear that L&D has so much potential to impact an organisation's performance when approached with the right focus. Definitely looking forward to applying these insights!