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Learning News
New managers achieving capability using the Alchemy Learning Pathway
n At this year’s World of Learning Exhibition, People Alchemy is launching its groundbreaking new SaaS platform that accelerates the time to proficiency for people new into a role. The Alchemy Learning Pathway uses the latest informal learning concepts to ‘manage’ the 70 per cent experiential and 20 per cent social parts of the learning process and promote self-directed learning. The first pathway, ‘26 Steps to Management’, is available off the shelf, but anybody can create a learning journey on the platform for any role. Getting new managers started is a process; it takes time as they absorb experience and knowledge from their activities. So how about exposing a new manager to those essential scenarios in a more structured and purposeful way? Paul Matthews, managing director of People Alchemy, said: “We have created a structured experiential pathway for a new manager to optimise the time to proficiency. Couple this with a mentoring component and you have a powerful tool.
“People will glean most of the information they need about being a manager through informal learning. When you use a structured experiential pathway you are accelerating that process. In effect, you are exercising some control over the content and rate of the 70 per cent and 20 per cent of the 70:20:10 model. And of course, you can throw in 10 per cent formal training too. “We have been describing our new pathway product and how to get new managers to proficiency in 26 weeks to senior L&D people in big companies and the universal response has been that what we are creating is new and very interesting. Several have said that it will dovetail very nicely with existing initiatives and are looking forward to the launch.”
learningmagazine.co.uk
The BILD announces agreement with The Training Foundation
n The British Institute for Learning & Development (The BILD) has announced an expanded, long- term agreement with The Training Foundation, operator of the Training Accreditation Programme (TAP). TAP is the BILD’s recommended qualifications and continuing professional development programme for L&D professionals. Holding a TAP professional certificate now qualifies applicants for associate membership of the Institute and holding one of the role-based TAP diplomas qualifies applicants for full membership. The parties will continue to pursue the objective of raising the status of L&D practitioners to that of professionals, by meeting the highest standards of practice enabled by TAP methodologies. David Apparicio, chair of the BILD, commented: “The BILD is pleased to have been integrally involved with the TAP programme over the last year. In now strengthening our relationship, we are confident that our partnership will lead to
L&D becoming seen as a real profession, as it rightfully should be.”
Nick Mitchell is founder and CEO of The Training Foundation. He commented: “I’m confident that this even closer alignment of TAP with the BILD sends a clear signal to everyone involved in L&D that a TAP qualification and membership of the BILD will identify them as an L&D professional. I’m personally delighted that, in the BILD, we have an international Institute that is dedicated to exclusively serving the professional needs and aspirations of the L&D community.”
Acteon supports Towards Maturity’s latest In-Focus report
n Acteon is delighted to be supporting Towards Maturity in their latest In-Focus report: ‘Building engagement – 7 techniques to improve staff engagement’. The In-Focus report centres on how you can build engagement with your technology- supported learning, with the ultimate goal of building a more committed, skilled and engaged workforce.
It also analyses the behaviour of the top learning companies and isolates seven habits of L&D teams that are engaging their learners effectively. Through real life scenarios and clear guidelines, the report
demonstrates how companies can transform the way L&D engages with its learners. A better engaged workforce will benefit from improved staff motivation, improved speed of response to business change and the ability to engage different types of learners.
“Employees who understand where the organisation is headed and how their skills contribute to helping make it happen are more engaged. An engaged workforce delivers innovation, productivity and performance,” said Matthew Borg, a managing partner at Acteon.
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