In the past week, Brandon Hall Group published 12 pieces of research – 2 new proprietary research reports, 3 award-winning case studies, 2 webinars, 2 answers to questions from members, and 3 research-based blogs.
In this blog, we will make public some of these reports (click on the links) as a way for non-members to familiarize themselves with our research:
- State of Learning & Development: The Struggle with Strategy
- Research Spotlight: Fresh Insights about Today’s Leadership Development
- Teknosa Hits the Target with Coaches and Mentors
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Here is an overview of research released the week of Dec. 14-20:
New Research Report
State of Learning & Development: The Struggle with Strategy
This industry perspective presents Brandon Hall Group’s point of view on the state of corporate learning and development as we head into 2016. Learning is undergoing a gradual, but seismic, shift that is slowed mainly by many organizations’ inability to create a thoughtful strategy that closely aligns with business and performance goals. This report shares major research findings from 2015, along with seven critical calls for action and an explanation of Brandon Hall Group’s Learning and Development Framework, which provides organizations with guidance to build a comprehensive framework aligned with business needs.
Executive Summary: State of Learning & Development: The Struggle with Strategy
This executive summary provides a high-level overview of Brandon Hall Group’s perspective on the state of learning and development as we head into 2016. It summarizes major research findings from 2015, along with seven critical calls to action.
Award-winning Case Studies
These case studies – winners of 2015 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards – were released for publication this week:
Teknosa Hits the Target with Coaches and Mentors
This awards case study details how Teknosa’s “Golden Goal” project was realized together with Sabancı University, different counselors, and supporters to identify how the needs, standards, vision, organizational structure, and future of the retail company would look like. The project led to an extensive coaching and mentoring program that earned a Gold Award for Best Use of Coaching and Mentoring in Leadership Development in the 2015 Brandon Hall Group Awards.
Microsoft Uses MOOC to Enable Global Sales
This awards case study examines Microsoft’s decision to use a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) to create sales enablement training to its global salesforce. While MOOCs often have low course completion rates, Microsoft was interested in the agility inherent in an online solution. It motivated Microsoft to pursue this avenue and to utilize the best practices of blended learning instructional design and technology. The results dramatically exceeded expectations and earned a Silver Award for Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy in the 2015 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards.
Reinventing Tomorrow at Learning@Cisco
This awards study examines Learning@Cisco’s effort, through an extensive education and change management initiative, to relaunch a project management tool that had a low adoption rate and faced great skepticism within the organization due to a flawed initial implementation. The strategy was extremely successful and earned a Bronze Award for Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy in the 2015 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards
Answers to Questions from Members
One great benefit to Brandon Hall Group members is the ability to ask questions of our HCM analyst team and get quick answers, usually within 24 hours. The questions answered this week included:
- Do you have anything that shows the impact of frontline leadership development? I need a stat that shows ROI/impact to back up my own research.
- Where can I find information on best practices/methodology for a needs analysis to investigate learning needs?
Webinars
Research Spotlight: Fresh Insights about Today’s Leadership Development
This session of the Brandon Hall Group Monthly Research Spotlight Series highlighted this year’s newest findings on leadership development that makes a business difference. Laci Loew, Vice President Talent Management Practice and Principal Analyst, shared our new leadership development framework, key data that informs high-impact leadership development decisions, and examples of organizations that have implemented winning formulas.
Improving the Bottom Line: Should Training Graduate to a Corporate University?
There comes a time when an organization needs to decide how to approach learning. Will it be a tactical delivery of skills and compliance training, or a strategic endeavor with an impact on organizational performance? There are some important differentiators between the corporate university model and a traditional training department. Corporate universities traditionally align with an organization’s strategic initiatives, offer a model that compels learners to grow and develop and can actually help boost an organization’s bottom line. David Wentworth and Ben Eubanks, Learning Analysts with Brandon Hall Group, examined what exactly a corporate university is, what it isn’t, and how it differs from standard training functions.
Research-based Blogs
How to Actually Start Utilizing Talent Analytics
An organization’s ability to execute well on today’s talent management relies on the degree to which they have and use empirical knowledge about their talent. This knowledge enables informed decisions about the right number of employees, with the right knowledge, skills, behaviors, and experience. It allows organizations to place the right person, in the right role, at the right time, for the right cost. These decisions and actions are called workforce planning, and this process is informed by talent analytics. In this blog, Laci Loew walks through an overview of talent analytics and how companies can use them.
Applying Marketing Strategies to Sourcing
Hiring organizations last year spent an average of $3.2 million on their talent acquisition budget, and 19% of that budget went to sourcing candidates, according to our research. That’s a considerable chunk of the TA budget used for sourcing, ranking just behind the actual hiring (21%). The lack of success companies have in finding high-quality candidates raises the question of how effectively they are spending their sourcing budgets to utilize tools that lead to quality hires. In this blog post, Daria Friedman analyzes how companies can overcome this challenge.
HCMx Radio: Training Without Coaching is Not Worth the Investment
But two-third of respondents to our 2015 Performance Management Study indicated that it’s critical to hold leaders accountable for employee performance. In the latest HCMx Radio episode, Brandon Hall Group COO Rachel Cooke talks with Sarah Vita, who leads the sales training organization at Prudential. Vita discusses how Prudential successfully implemented coaching across the entire sales function to create thought-provoking partnerships and foster self-motivated problem-solvers.
