The Drivers for Learning and Development in Contemporary Business

Today’s managers and professional staff must be competent to cope with greater levels of uncertainty and complexity than ever before. Implementation of cutting edge technology and the irresistible attractions of globalisation are driving change at unprecedented rates. Meeting the demands of stakeholders and society for regulation and transparency across multi geographical and cultural locations dramatically compound this relentless growth in complexity.

It is a well documented fact that organisations which do not keep pace with the rate of change in their business environment quickly fail. A strategic learning culture, hot linked to the business strategy, is therefore vital within our organisations.

Ensuring the Learning and Development Supports the Commercial Edge

Our fundamental approach to training is to help organisations compete in their business environment. Where we are engaged to look at the learning needs of an organisation – we do so by truly understanding what competencies are necessary to support the short and long term development of the business. To achieve this, we build self regenerating learning mechanisms which will give sustaining business advantage.

Our Ethos

We work with clients to identify the true learning needs and where interventions can make a difference to the business performance. All of our training is based on fundamental principles – these are timeless, and provide the tools to make the vital judgments about the future.

We Differentiate Ourselves as Consultants who are Trainers

Our goal is to embed the basic principles and provide a practical understanding through transfer of experience, founded on our capabilities as consultants and abilities as trainers. Thus we compliment the theoretical foundations with insights to practical experience, real life examples, and case studies. This pragmatism is reflected in our active input into the active input into the emerging
standards for Governance and Business Architectures.

Training Needs Analysis (TNA)

We undertake training needs analysis (TNA) – we do this in close partnership with our clients.
We see a TNA as:

• An integrated component of the overall business strategy
• Aligned with the organisations value chain(s)
• Having empathy with and understanding the culture of the organisation.

The outcome is a TNA which is:

• Comprehensive – from boardroom to front line product/ service delivery
• Thoroughly planned to recognise existing knowledge and how to grow competency with the planned needs of the organisation for growth.