4:00 PM – 4:50 PM

Aligning L&D Goals to Organization Goals

Aligning your learning goals to the overall organizational goals is the bread and butter of building your learning strategy. It’s how you will prove your L&D initiatives are making business impact. In order to uncover the organizational goals, learning leaders need to have unique skills like business acumen and data analysis. During this roundtable, you’ll discuss the skills required and the challenges surrounding organizational strategic alignment.

Conducting a Needs Analysis

One of the most important components of building your learning strategy is uncovering the skills your workforce needs to develop. Conducting a needs analysis helps identify gaps in performance and determine whether training is the right solution. During this roundtable, you’ll discuss the challenges of conducting a strong needs analysis and how these play a role in your strategic plan.

Engaging a Dispersed Workforce

Advancements in technology have allowed companies to support a globally dispersed workforce, with colleagues logging on across borders to the same Zoom call or training session. Thus, the need for learning leaders to train their workforces in cultural competence is more important than ever before. Join this roundtable to share your experiences and challenges on training a dispersed workforce from language barriers, cultural competency and technological needs.

Integrating DEI in Your Strategic Plan

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is a leading indicator of healthy workplaces, yet if organizations aren’t careful DEI initiatives can end up on the backburner. Learning leaders are well positioned to integrate DEI into the fabric of their organization’s culture. Join this roundtable to discuss how DEI can be interwoven in your L&D plan, as well as the challenges you might face when implementing, promoting or measuring the impact of your DEI initiatives.

L&D’s Role in Career Development

Learning leaders play a huge role in uncovering skills gaps and ensuring the business has the skills it needs now and in the future. Mapping employees’ skills to their career goals helps organizations assess what valuable skills they need to succeed. It also incentivizes employees to grow in their careers inside of the organization. In this roundtable discussion, join us to share and learn best practices and key insights on how employee career development plays a role in your learning strategy.

Leveraging Technologies to Support a Strategic Plan

With new technologies constantly emerging, it’s critical for learning leaders to stay abreast of new learning tools to optimize their learning tech stack and support their learning strategies. This can procure better business results and help organizations remain competitive in today’s digital era. Join us in this roundtable discussion to share pros and cons to your organization’s learning tech stack and how you consider your strategic plan when vetting new technology.

Measuring the Impact of Your Plan

Measuring the impact of your strategic plan is vital not only to win over stakeholders, but also to improve the outcomes year after year. To be successful in their roles, learning leaders must understand how to connect learning outcomes with key business metrics. In this roundtable discussion, you’ll join your peers to share challenges surrounding measuring the impact of your strategic plan and remaining agile enough to tweak your plan once it’s in motion.