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Learning Trends
Lead interview
people who, as opposed to reporting
influence and sometimes the budget to
they ought to get involved; involved in
to the head of human resources, are
do things right and that’s really the major
their local school; and in charities. As I said
reporting directly up there and that is a
thing. The downside is that you could I’m getting involved in politics because I
trend. However, I would say that for 50
spend all your time reporting to the board think we need to see learning as a force of
per cent of the CLOs it’s just the title;
rather than actually doing good learning. change. We need people who are capable
they don’t report to the board; they don’t
At some point you have to balance that but of influencing from different places.
report directly to the managing director.
I’d always rather see the head of learning
Don’t be overly impressed by it! I think
have a senior position and direct access. My final thought is let us not in all of
it’s a positive direction to have a senior
our fascination and excitement about
alignment with business, but we are
new tools, (iPod, games, social network,
fancier with titles here. People expect a
“Never build something
Google, etc,) let us not forget that
certain title with their role.
the three most important things that
you wouldn’t use yourself somebody learns in life (how to talk, how
to walk and how to control when they
However, I think some of this trend has
Like you’d never cook
go to a bathroom), is all learnt without a
come from a recognition that training a dish you wouldn’t eat
single piece of technology.
needs to be accountable for the business.
yourself. We’ve got to
There are other factors like e-commerce,
make sure we’re actually
It’s learnt because they have a parent
which may account for 80 per cent of their
helping them go through the trial and error
revenue. I think people have been looking
consuming the stuff
of learning. We get very excited about
towards technology and learning in a we do”
the new whizz-bang gizmos and the like,
similar way, really being able to drive the
yet learning is a very fundamental human
business. So I think those are the reasons
behaviour and I want to make sure that we
why perhaps we are seeing it more here.
In your opinion how can L&D never lose sight of that because if we can
professionals raise their profile teach young infants those things, and it’s
What are the benefits of being able
within organisations? usually done by people who have not gone
to go directly to the board? They could raise their profile by having a to a training programme, there’s hope for
You have the access, you have the role outside their organisation. I think that the rest of us as well.
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