The L&D Leader
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The L&D Leader

Principles and Practice for Delivering Business Value

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eBook - ePub

The L&D Leader

Principles and Practice for Delivering Business Value

About this book

Is your learning strategy delivering measurable value to the business?

The L&D Leader
by Laura Overton and Michelle Ockers is a strategic guide for senior L&D executives and organizational leaders who want to align learning priorities with business objectives, build workforce capability and drive long-term performance.

Written by two leading industry voices, this book distills over 20 years of research with more than 10,000 L&D professionals and 230 learning leaders. It provides proven tools for assessing focus areas, adopting evidence-based practices and embedding principles that make L&D more outcomes-led, innovative, data-driven and agile.

You'll discover how to:
- Align L&D strategy with business priorities for maximum impact
- Build workforce skills that meet current and future demands
- Move beyond tools and models to create sustainable learning value
- Lead change in L&D culture, governance and delivery

With real-world examples from McKinsey & Company, Barnardo's, AstraZeneca and Multiplex, The L&D Leader equips senior decision-makers to transform learning into a strategic driver of business success.

Themes include: L&D strategy, leadership, governance, workforce capability, data-driven learning, business alignment

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Information

Publisher
Kogan Page
Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781398620278
eBook ISBN
9781398620315

Table of contents

  1. List of figures and tables
  2. About the authors
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. The structure of the book
  6. How to use this book
  7. Why we wrote this book
  8. Introduction: A navigator’s tale
  9. PART ONE What got us here won’t get us there… or will it?
  10. 1 Calling all L&D leaders
  11. 2 Looking back to look forward
  12. PART TWO Equipped: Navigation principles
  13. 3 Tuning In
  14. 4 Responding
  15. 5 Improving
  16. 6 Integrating TRI: AstraZeneca’s learning transformation
  17. PART THREE Charting your course
  18. 7 Navigating safe waters: Equipped for today
  19. 8 Beyond the horizon: Ready for tomorrow
  20. 9 Journeying together
  21. PART FOUR Ready: The BOLD navigator
  22. 10 Mindset matters
  23. 11 Calibrating our BOLD compass
  24. PART FIVE Shaping the future
  25. 12 L&D: Equipped and ready
  26. 13 Shaping our future
  27. Appendix 1: Learning Performance Benchmark
  28. Appendix 2: Tool to build your matrix of models
  29. Appendix 3: Learning science checklist
  30. Appendix 4: L&D thinking habits continuum
  31. Appendix 5: L&D Sail Plan
  32. Index