Developing a Strategically Aligned Learning and Development Strategy

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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
Maximum 20 participants 1-day interactive seminar
17 Nov 2010, 16 Mar 2011, 6 Jul 2011, 16 Nov 2011
Central London £550 + VAT

In brief:

Learning and development sits at the heart of organisational success. A well-embedded L&D strategy will increase an organisations core capability and unlock high performance, creating value and driving competitive advantage.

A holistic approach to developing a strategically aligned and integrated Learning and Development strategy will incorporate talent management and succession planning strategies and effective performance management processes and engagement frameworks.

JSB’s Developing a Strategically Aligned Learning and Development Strategy will enable you to design, develop and enhance your L&D strategy to align with key business objectives and deliver bottom line results.

This event is CPD accredited.

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

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

The 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
11:15
Coffee
11:30
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
15:30
Coffee
15:45
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
16:15
Addressing the challenges: typical issues and challenges to successful L&D
  • Exploring potential barriers in your organisation, and identifying approaches to resolve
16:45
Action planning
  • Your key actions to be implemented on returning to work
17:00
End of seminar

Client 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

Venue details

Venue details will be confirmed shortly.

For further information on the training facilities we use, please call us on +44 (0)20 8371 7010

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Consultants

Our People

Angela Qureshi

Angela Qureshi, Director - heads JSB’s Education sector and Strategic HR faculty. As an HR strategist and an experienced management consultant, trainer and coach, she has extensive experience at blue chip consulting firms; Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and as Head of HR at a large University.

 

Angela’s current work includes: Delivery of a leadership development programme for senior managers, currently broadening to support a wider cultural change programme (ongoing); Supporting an HR department with a process of change to move towards a more strategically focused, business partnering approach to HR provision, encompassed by the whole function (ongoing).  Angela brings useful experience and latest thinking from her work in an extensive range of sectors including professional services and finance.

Angela holds an MSc in Organisational Behaviour from Birkbeck College, University of London and a BSc Honours degree in Management Sciences from Warwick University.  Angela is a Level A and Level B British Psychological Society qualified Occupational Tester, and is licensed in the OPQ and MBTI instruments.  She is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

 

Key areas of expertise:

  • HR and organisation strategy
  • Business strategy development facilitation
  • Leadership, change management and organisation development
  • Management development skills
  • Performance management including objective setting, performance appraisal, training and development, motivation and reward
  • Operational HR including capability, discipline and grievance, sickness absence, case work, employment law for managers, recruitment and selection, role design and competency development

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Testimonials

“Excellent trainer, very knowledgeable and well informed”

— Jacqueline May, Head of Human Resources,
Lewisham Homes

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