Product Description

This is a comprehensive guide to creating a Learning Strategy - from the needs of the business,and at the same time taking into account best practice in HRD. Suitable for practitioners and students alike. It is a completely rewritten second edition to the author's best selling 1998 edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25855 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

People Management - September 2004
Without a doubt, the eight chapters and two appendices contain a great deal of useful information for the HRD professional.

Synopsis
If your learning and development programme isn't intimately linked with your organisation's business strategy, you are not adding value. Worse, you are actively destroying it. If you can't show line managers how your training programmes will help their teams meet their objectives, what chance do you have that they will take you seriously? Obviously, you want employees who can meet the needs of your organisation. You want senior management to ask your opinion. You want your people development programme to make a difference. To do this, you need to be able to create and implement a learning and development strategy that is aligned to your business strategy. You need to be able to make the case for investment. You need to be able to show that you can deliver results.

From the Author
This book aims to help the HR Development professional be a true business partner, supporting the goals of their organisation through focused learning. It provides a systematic model to cover the external and internal factors that drive a learning portfolio, and at the same time looks at the choices needed in processes and tools, in marketing and communication, and in tracking return on investment.

Customer Reviews

Concise and common sense!!
What a great read! Thoroughly enjoyed the layout and style of Mayo's writing. His common sense approach not only to the development of strategy, but also the appeal to those who are more interested in reading a book for practitioners, rather than a book for theorists, really tuned me into his logic.

This little (concise and easy) book provides an excellent book for those faced with having to huge task of understanding the business implications on L&D, having to contextualise and contend with change, and at the same time - actually 'writing' down your intentions and policies.

It is a must for any HR practitioner, even those who may not yet have to undertake such a task, as many of his models can be applied to any problem-solving needs.