Aligning Training Project Intake to Business Strategy
With any employee being able to initiate a request for training project intake, the L&D department can quickly become overwhelmed. Nowadays, every employee feels empowered and enabled to seek training in order to do his or her job better. Knowing that L&D is considered a strategic resource within an organization, more employees and managers are […]
7 Tools for Creating Training Request Forms: a Comparative Guide
The jig is up for training intake. L&D teams are starting to realize that bottlenecks in the training design process begin in this very first stage, and it’s time to do something about it. Creating effective training request forms is the first step. Manual processes and ad-hoc requests are slowing down the prioritization of training […]
Why Training Intake Processes Are Failing L&D
Employees are more empowered than ever. They want to choose their own devices, physical work location, and other components of their work lives. They also want to choose their own training. But current training intake processes are limiting the potential for L&D to provide the best value possible to stakeholders. Traditionally, rank-and-file employees couldn’t make […]
Why Strategic Training Intake Processes are the Key to Success for L&D
Strategic training intake is more than just accepting or rejecting whatever training requests may come your way. The expectations on L&D to produce training that aligns with organizational goals and contributes to bottom-line results have been growing. In lots of ways, it’s a good thing. Budgets are higher and executive management is buying into the […]
The Strategic Thinker’s Guide to Managing Training Requests
How do you know whether your employees want training? (Chances are, they do.) And how do you know whether training requests are worth your and your team’s time to develop? First, a system or mechanism needs to be in place for fielding training requests. This mechanism is essentially finding out who wants training and in […]
