"The concept of "strategic learning" is an all-encompassing strategic approach to learning. Strategic learning starts with strategic imperatives - the direction the organisation is taking, its purpose, its vision, its mission, its strategic goals"

Ian Cunningham 1999 (Strategic Learning Author)

Motivating and developing your employees is inseparably tied to the success of your business.

Managing Learning works with CEOs and senior managers to ensure their investment in learning and development increases capability and unlocks high performance, giving their organisation a competitive advantage.

We work with you to strategically re-align your organisational learning activities, produce a robust strategic learning plan, and give your team the skills, knowledge and confidence required for to successfully deliver it. We can also write HR policies and strategies on talent management. succession planning and leadership development if you require it.

Every project we undertake is tailored to meet your organisations needs. Typically we deploy a three phase approach.

In phase 1, we quickly get to know your business, identifying future impacts and drivers, the key skills your organisation required, critical skills gaps and likely barriers and resistant sub cultures. We produce a report for the executive team outlining a strategy, implementation plans and recommendations on how to get better value / ROI from your investment in learning and development.

In phase 2, we ensure you have the necessary skills and knowledge to confidently implement the plan and support you to achieve the results you require, providing support as required.

In phase 3, we evaluate your newly aligned learning and development / human capital activities, and report back on the return on investment (ROI) your company has gained.

In addition, we offer a range of supporting interventions such as:

Mentoring to develop your L&D teams strategic learning and human capital skills, so that they think and act more strategically

Adding value to your in-house programmes by working with Awarding Bodies on your behalf to get them accredited as externally recognised qualifications.

"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"

Jack Cross, CBI, 2009

Business learning, strategic planning

"The ultimate challenge of business leaders is to develop the next generation of leaders to be more capable than themselves"

David Ulrich

Strategic Learning Resources

We've compiled a number of resources and links to help L&D professional who are considering adopting a strategic learning approach.

This page contains:

Research into Strategic Learning
Strategic Learning Case Studies
Strategic Learning approaches
Links to Books
Links to articles, L&D resources & related research

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Strategic Learning research

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Research into Strategic Learning: Interim findings

Strategic Learning Case Studies

We are in the process of producing a series of "Best Practice Case studies". Please bookmark this page and check for updates regularly, or join our mailing list.

Strategic Learning approaches deployed

Clicking the links below will allow you to access presentations and other resources produced by organisations who have adopted a strategic approach to their organisational learning and development.

Lufthansa's approach to strategic L&D

A presentation by Burt Gochermann, Head of Lufthansa's Business School. The presentation outlines the approach taken by Lufthansa to make their learning and development activities more strategic. A bottom up and top down process was implemented that identified clear strategic fields of action. These "fields of action" gave orientation for 40 programmes. Lufthansa's strategic approach has gained them world wide recognition and awards and a wide range of business benefits such as staff retention, motivation, meeting and exceeding corporate goals.