The way your Talent Development function is structured will decide how it operates and how the people in your organization utilize it. A learning function that helps employees, managers, and leaders decide what training to leverage under which business conditions is one that will be sustainable. Do you want this function to perform as a platform driven by end-users? Do you want a centralized team that will run all employee development initiatives? The Learning Architecture of your business is the critical component which makes room for everything else.

You can have the best Talent Development Strategy, but if you don’t have the internal capabilities and resources to execute that strategy then it’s as good as not existing. We help you find the right blend in the build-buy-borrow framework to ensure you have the necessary skillsets ranging from instructional design to program management. Your talent development strategy and your business’s learning architecture will decide the resources you need to identify internally or externally.

There are a wide variety of ways you can deliver learning experiences to the people that make up your teams and organization. It used to be that people would come to formal training workshops, spend a day or five, and head back to their desks. No more! We help you develop a dynamic learning function which can deliver learning to all learners in all settings, ranging from (virtual) classroom settings to on-demand to social & peer-learning.

The phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast”, originated by Peter Drucker, holds absolutely true when it comes to talent development strategy. With culture being what you do repeatedly, the business processes, management processes, and the programs that support your learning function are of paramount importance. Ultimately you will drive the culture of your business, but we are here to help you develop the systems that will allow you to build that learning culture through micro-actions on a daily basis.

You may have hundreds of people in your Talent Development team or you may have one, and the people deploying your learning function will either be internal or external. We help you not only develop that team, but also look at the capabilities of team members. We develop a capability-inventory to help the various experts in your team work together effectively. Increasing your team’s Talent Development capability equips each individual to use their knowledge and skills effectively in response to varied and unfamiliar business needs.

We focus less on Learning Needs Analysis and more on performance gaps. We work with you to determine what you need your organization, teams, and individuals to have the capacity to do, instead of merely focusing on what you need people to understand. Many people understand the benefits of exercising, not many actually take action. You will have a much greater impact on your organization if you can increase performance instead of mere knowledge. In this focus area, we figure out if you will focus on leadership development or sales enablement or onboarding . . . or completely different programs, or all three, and in which order?

A big part of executing and implementing your talent development strategy will involve designing, building, and delivering learning experiences. The wide array of tools and technology available can take a lot of time to review. We work with you to identify exactly what you need to achieve and how you want to achieve it, and help you implement technology that seamlessly communicates with your already existing platforms, resulting in a process that requires minimal monitoring.

For a Talent Development Strategy to work, you need to know the objectives, how their impact will be measured, and who will be measuring it. We help you define roles and responsibilities, while also building out your performance metrics. The important work here is not in simply deciding who will do what, when, and how, but more importantly to develop systems that help you report on your organization’s learning activity with minimal effort each month.