L&D professionals have “key role” in achieving world-class skills
By Elizabeth Eyre (August 2007 Issue)
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Learning and development professionals have a key role in the radical changes that are facing British business over the next decade.
According to Professor Mike Campbell, they are vital to “sustaining Britain’s future prosperity” by encouraging organisations to sign up to the government’s new Skills Pledge, gaining senior managers’ commitment to skills and ensuring that the skills acquired by organisations are strategically relevant.
They must also ensure that HR activities – including learning and development (L&D) – are properly aligned with business objectives.
The advisor to the Leitch Review of skills, Campbell told more than 150 L&D practitioners at this year’s TJ conference that improving Britain’s workplace skills was paramount if the country was to remain competitive in a rapidly-changing economic world.
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