Tag Performance management

The impact of L&D initiatives is too rarely measured against business outcomes, finds CIPD

According to 45 per cent of respondents, the most common barrier to evaluating L&D is other business priorities, but barriers within L&D and HR itself, such as the quality analytical data (32 per cent), and crucially the capability of L&D…

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L&D practitioners need to bridge their own skills gap to drive organisational performance, study reveals

The research shows that although the L&D community is more ambitious than ever before, many practitioners don’t have the capabilities in-house to drive the organisational change they’d like to. For example, 87 per cent think that business planning is a…

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Small and medium businesses losing employees due to lack of training opportunities, study finds

The research also uncovered a gap in small businesses training their staff. Nearly one in six (15 per cent) never spend any money on training and 26 per cent only spend money on training ‘ad hoc’ rather than having a…

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