A clearer learning experience with a Curriculum Optimisation

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Reduce the strain on your L&D teams by helping learners access relevant content in a more timely, enjoyable and efficient way

Providing up to date content to learners is a common mandate for L&D teams. However this constant creation of programmes and training material can lead to a learning catalogue cluttered with unused programmes. It is not uncommon for us to see the number of learning solutions in an organisation reaching several thousand, of which less than 10% are being used. This presents a challenge for L&D teams to manage these ever expanding libraries and also makes it very difficult for the learner to find relevant content that addresses their immediate learning need.

Our consultancy team understands that a well-managed curriculum should be at the heart of every learning department. We focus on three core areas to help you achieve optimisation:

1. Curriculum design
2. Content development
3. Developing standards for efficiency and consistent content

Curriculum design

Businesses often find that as they grow, their learning curriculum becomes oversized, outdated, or held in silos (typically by business unit, country or subject area). We can help you reshape your organisation’s learning curriculum to more closely align with your business goals. This can includeour vendor independence any or all of the following:

Align with competency frameworks:

Mapping preferred or recommended learning against your organisation’s competency frameworks.

Extend the scope:

Broadening your curriculum to include new areas that are required to address business needs and improve business performance.

Refresh:

We will recommend updates to your curriculum, including the removal of redundant or outdated content.

Academy design:

Structuring and signposting curriculum content, so learners can quickly and easily find learning that is relevant to their development needs.

Modality shift:

Changing the delivery medium for your learning - often in response to the adoption of 70-20-10 philosophy - so to make better use of technology, or to reduce the reliance on expensive instructor led
training (ILT).

Content development

Our expertise in learning enables us to recommend sources for the development of new learning content, whatever the modality.  We can help you with the design, development and project management of new learning assets. This can be individual content items, content for learning programmes, or a suite of content for a curriculum area.  We cover all learning modalities - from traditional ILT, to the latest mobile, social and informal learning approaches.

Developing standards for efficiency and consistent content

For organisations with an extensive learning curriculum, the quality and consistency of content development can become a problem.  If you have multiple development teams and training suppliers, it’s essential that standards are implemented to ensure a consistent and reliable output.  We can help you to create effective standards and guidelines for your learning content design and delivery, covering use of technology, academies, metrics and tracking.

Benefits

1.  Improved organisational performance - all curriculum content is chosen because it addresses organisational goals