Many organizations excel at course development and delivery but struggle to form close relationships with their C-suite which can result in suboptimal high-level support and funding. These organizations often have an unbalanced learning portfolio with little learning devoted explicitly or directly to achieving the highest–level goals of the organization.
In this session, Dave Vance, founder of Caterpillar University and the Center for Talent Reporting, will share an approach to ensure strategic alignment with the organization’s top goals and build strategic partnerships with goal owners. He will also share the basic tenets of running learning like a business, including the importance of setting specific, measurable goals, and executing the business plan for learning with discipline.
He will provide a step-by-step process to engage the CEO and senior leadership during the business planning process to identify strategic learning specifically created to help the organization achieve its highest-level goals. He will share how to reach agreement on planned impact and how to manage a partnership to deliver the promised results. He will also show how to share the data that senior leaders most want to see and how to speak their language.
Learning objectives:
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Identify strategic learning and assess whether your learning portfolio is properly balanced.
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Manage a process to create strategic learning and reach agreement on targets & roles and responsibilities.
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Create management reports with appropriate efficiency, effectiveness, and outcome measures to manage the learning and demonstrate results.
David Vance is the author of The Business of Learning, now in its second edition, and co-author with Peggy Parskey of Measurement Demystified as well as the Measurement Demystified Field Guide. He and Peggy Parskey developed the Talent Development Reporting Principles (TDRP) which are described in the Measurement Demystified books and widely used.
He is the founder and former Executive Director of the Center for Talent Reporting which was a nonprofit, membership-based organization dedicated to the creation and implementation of standards for human capital measurement, reporting and management. He is the former President of Caterpillar University, which he founded in 2001. Prior to this position, Dave was Chief Economist and Head of the Business Intelligence Group at Caterpillar Inc.
Dave teaches in the Ph.D. program at Bellevue University and in the executive education program for Chief Learning Officers at George Mason University. He also serves on the Metrics Working Group for the International Organization for Standardization where he led the creation of the first standard on L&D metrics. Dave received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame.
Social Media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvance1/
Websites: https://roiinstitute.net/ctmr/