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Developing a Strategically Aligned Learning and Development Strategy

Create a learning culture by aligning your L&D strategy with business objectives and linking it to your talent management, performance management and employee engagement initiatives

Event details

Participants: Maximum 20
Venue details
London: 19th June 2013

Price: £550 + VAT
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Overview

This HR training course will enable you to design, develop and enhance your learning and development strategy to align with key business objectives and deliver bottom line results.

Learning and development sits at the heart of organisational success. A well-embedded learning and development strategy will increase an organisation’s core capability and unlock high performance. This in turn creates value and drives competitive advantage.

To create a true learning culture, a holistic approach is needed. You will need to incorporate talent management and succession planning strategies as well as effective performance management processes and engagement frameworks.

Seminar Highlights

  • Determine the strategic priorities for your organisation and operate as a business partner
  • Understand how to align your strategy with business objectives and how to create a learning culture
  • Explore how to integrate talent management, performance management and employee engagement into your L&D strategy
  • Establish the structures needed to support the learning process in your organisation
  • Consider how to structure and communicate the strategy document and plans
  • Identify potential barriers and explore methods for resolution

Programme

09:00

Registration and coffee

09:30

Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives

10:00

Learning and development strategy at the heart of organisation success

  • Understanding strategy and how to ensure your L&D approach is strategically harnessed and aligned to deliver strategic advantage
  • L&D culture and its central role in organisational performance and strategic advantage
  • Making the case for L&D – proving worth: an introduction to issues covered in depth at Day 2 event
10:30

Strategic priorities: where the money should go?

  • Determining the strategic priorities of your organisation: how to ascertain and manage the balance between the many sources of need
  • A look at the sources of development need:the business strategy and direction; core competencies; organisation wide needs; departmental and individual focus; the technical and professional; leadership and management development
  • The strategic planning process for L&D: what makes sense in your organisation
  • Ensuring your L&D function demonstrates efficiency and worth: an introduction to the issues covered in depth on Day 2 event
11:00

Coffee

11:15

L&D strategy and the talent management, performance management and engagement framework: integrating L&D within the people strategy

  • What to include within the L&D strategy and interfaces with other people strategies
  • A focus on talent management, career development, performance management and succession planning
  • Where it begins: the link with strategic induction
  • The engaged workforce: the role of L&D
12:30

Lunch

13:30

The business partner approach to L&D: partnering with your organisation to ensure best strategic fit and to develop an embedded L&D culture

  • What it takes to operate as a business partner
  • Key skills and approaches
  • Assessing your own approach and that of your L&D function
14:45

The learning process: determining the structures needed in your organisation

  • PDPs, learning logs, CPD frameworks and approaches
  • Assessing and progressing individual needs
  • Monitoring of uptake
  • Learning interventions: what makes a difference? An overview of issues covered in depth on Day 2 event
15:15

Coffee

15:30

The L&D strategy document and plans

  • What to include, how it might look – examples and structures
  • Audiences for the document: communicating with impact
  • Keeping it current
  • Investors in People and the link to strategy
16:00

Addressing the challenges: typical issues and challenges to successful L&D

  • Exploring potential barriers in your organisation, and identifying approaches to resolve
16:15

Action planning

  • Your key actions to be implemented on returning to work
16:30

End of seminar

Speakers

Angela Qureshi

Angela Qureshi, Chartered FCIPD, is an HR strategist and an experienced management consultant, trainer and coach, with a background as a consultant at Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), and as a former Head of HR at a large university.  She has been working with JSB for over 7 years, working for a breadth of clients across sectors, and across the spectrum of HR, leadership and organisational development. Angela leads our HR Business Partner Development programme initiatives. She has designed, delivered and led teams delivering tailored HR development programmes for a number of clients as well as for our open programmes. Angela also leads on a number of HR and L&D strategy events, and is responsible for innovating new programmes.

Angela holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from Birkbeck College, University of London and a BSc Honours degree in Management Sciences from Warwick University. She is a Level A and Level B British Psychological Society qualified Occupational Tester, licensed in the OPQ and MBTI instruments, amongst others.

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Designed for

All Learning and Development Professionals, Training and Development Managers and Professionals, Managing Directors, HR Directors, HR Managers, Director of People and Performance, Director of Organisational Development, Department Managers, Policy Managers, anyone responsible for designing and implementing learning and development or training programmes.

Testimonials

“Excellent trainer, very knowledgeable and well informed”

– Jacqueline May, Head of Human Resources, Lewisham Homes

“I enjoyed it, it opened my eyes to wider HR issues”

– Joanna Dyson, Training Partner, News International Ltd

“Highly organised”

– Caroline Twilley, Learning & Development Officer, North Lincolnshire Homes

“A good thought provoking day with ideas shared explored leading to a lot of learning”

– John Bruce, Motor Neurone Disease Association

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Discounts

Multiple booking discount

Receive a 20% discount when you book more than one event, or book more than one person on the same event. Please note this discount only applies to the lesser priced booking and when all bookings are placed together.

Registered charities

You are entitled to a 25% discount on your booking if you are a registered charity. This discount will show on your invoice once your booking is submitted. You will need your charity registration number for the booking form.

Venue

JSB Training and Development

Dove House
Arcadia Avenue
N3 2JU

Tel: +44 (0)20 8371 7000
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