Why Agile Learning ?

Why would a company want to have agile learning? What’s the purpose?

In today’s fast moving pace of business and where developments in technology and processes never stand still – can we afford to wait for the next formal training course? Those knowledge, skills and behavioural gaps are there ALL THE TIME, for many different reasons.

When it comes to the more traditional training courses, the knowledge, skills and processes learnt can quickly become out of date. If we wait to bridge those gaps using formal once-or-twice a year training, that could be just a little too infrequent.

We know that lack of investment in CPD (Continuous Professional Development) of people and talent creates a knowledge, skills and behaviours gap which can impact productivity and business performance. It is globally recognised that there is a productivity gap in the UK; the UK Office of National Statistics state that the UK is 20 percentage points behind the average G7 country on productivity levels.

Naturally the more you can improve and develop your people, it will help to grow your business, but it should really be performance driven and results driven, which will help to start closing some of those gaps. Of course, there are other environmental, economic, cultural and political factors which will contribute towards that 20 percentage point gap but there is definitely a correlation.