Your L&D Governance: Policing or Pleasing?
So how is your governance structured? With your unique
bird’s-eye view of the organisation you should be in prime position to help
move the operations requests for learning from concept to reality with speed and
efficiency; but what is your reality? Are you still working on a first come
first served basis or are you prioritising based on the capability of your
internal delivery team? Are there ‘back doors’ to your process that allow
certain teams or departments to fast track their requests for training?
There should be nothing subjective about the decisions for
developing our people in the best way to equip them to support the strategic
objectives. With tight budgets we have to make ‘tight’ decisions. These
decisions should be transparent to the whole of your organisation and the
process required should be easy to navigate.
What are the functions of the people who are part of the
governance structure, if you have set up a Learning Council are they sure of
what their purpose is? It can’t be effective if the strategy makers are not
involved but if they are……do they make it like a policing exercise taking
advantage of the privilege to peer into other departments thinking and reacting
inappropriately?
What we know at KnowledgePool is it isn’t easy to establish
the structure or process but with help and support it will become the backbone
of your Learning and Development department.
Rachel Kuftinoff
Strategic Learning Consultant
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