Easily Plan and Track Learning Strategies

Align your L&D strategies with the business, prioritize learning investments that will have the most impact, and keep your team focused on delivering what matters most.

Replaces: Excel | Smartsheet | Float | Mavenlink

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A digital interface for tracking "Leadership Training" progress, featuring learning strategy insights, Objective 1 marked as met, evaluation details, evidence uploads, and options to delete the objective or save changes. - Cognota
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Align, Prioritize, and Execute L&D

With Clear Objectives

A dashboard for “Leadership Training / Impact Strategy” and Learning Strategy displays objectives, their status, and financial impact. A sidebar lists ROI methodology tips, while the user profile with “Stella Jacobs” appears in the top right corner. - Cognota

Define Your L&D North Star

  • Initiate your L&D journey by defining clear, actionable objectives and programs.
  • Create a structured path for your team’s efforts.
  • Directly link objectives to specific learning requests and projects.
  • Ensure every action is purposefully aligned with your L&D goals.

Prioritize for Maximum Learning Impact

  • Evaluate and score each learning program based on predicted impact
  • Tie impact to the goals and costs involved, enabling data-driven prioritization.
  • Use impact scores to strategically allocate resources
  • Focus on programs that offer the highest value to learners and the organization.
A dashboard for "Leadership Training / Impact Strategy" highlights impact objectives plus benefits. Two are reduced stress (intangible) and improved team engagement ($56,000), showcasing how effective learning strategies boost total monetary benefits to $548,000. - Cognota
A web page for inputting leadership training requests, featuring fields for business request details, input needs, and a sidebar with Learning Strategy insights and ROI methodology tips. The user "Stella Jacobs" is logged in. - Cognota

Align Every Task with Strategic Goals

  • Map every L&D task to the organization’s strategic goals
  • Ensure that even tactical work contributes to broader objectives.
  • Keep your team aligned and motivated by showing how they contribute to business targets.

Cognota Enables You To Assign Resources To

Projects Based On Workload And Availability

Understand Who Is Available To Take On More Work And Who Is Overloaded

  • View resource availability by role, time period, project or team
  • Quick reassign additional resources to high priority projects
  • Optimize your team’s time to ensure you’re providing as much value as possible to your business partners
A project management dashboard displays team members, their allocation to projects over time, and color-coded progress bars for effective Capacity Planning. A tooltip in the corner says, “Add participants if more capacity to complete a project is needed.”. - Cognota

Prioritize Resources To Deliver Programs On Time And On Budget

  • Assess capacity and reorganize resources to address programs that need immediate attention
  • Understand which due dates are coming up and when team members will have more capacity
  • Assess training requests as they come in and what your team is capable of taking on
A dashboard shows a list of training requests with columns for project, owner, team, status, type, priority, and dates. Capacity planning is streamlined as a pop-up highlights assigning request owners to projects. The left sidebar displays navigation icons. - Cognota

Report On Capacity To Determine And Show How Much Value L&D Is Delivering

  • See team capacity as it automatically appears in a highly graphical dashboard
  • Understand how many hours have already been assigned and illustrate team availability
  • Easily showcase where learning investments are being made across the business
  • Ensure senior leaders understand the value that L&D is providing across the organization
A project management dashboard features capacity planning with a resource allocation chart, highlighting available and overbooked hours using color-coded bars for tasks and a pop-up explaining team capacity visibility. - Cognota

FAQs About Cognota’s Learning

Strategy Feature

Setting objectives in Cognota enables you to establish clear and measurable L&D objectives and programs, serving as a foundational roadmap for your team. By setting these strategic goals upfront, you can ensure that every learning request and project undertaken is directly linked to and supports your overall L&D vision, fostering a more focused and impactful approach to learning and development within your organization.

Impact scoring is designed to assess and score each learning program based on its potential impact in relation to targeted goals and associated costs. This enables your team to make informed decisions about which learning initiatives to prioritize, focusing on those that promise the greatest benefits for learners and the organization, and ensuring the most efficient use of resources.

Learning Strategy ensures that every L&D task, no matter how tactical, is connected to your organization’s strategic objectives. This alignment ensures that all learning activities contribute to the broader corporate vision, providing clear visibility into how L&D efforts are directly supporting business success and keeping the team focused on high-priority initiatives.

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