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