Learning & Development
Five Learning and
Development Professionals
Share their Top Pain Points
Some of L&D's biggest issues include legacy,
consistency and innovation.
BY LAURENCE KARAL
W
e wanted to reach
out to top learning
and development
(L&D) professionals in varying
industries and hear firsthand, about the kind of issues
they are facing right now.
We know that learning and
development, much like any
other role, has a few sizeable
challenges to work through,
from the need to deal with
change effectively, to being
able to serve an increasingly
global and geographicallydispersed and diverse
population and to getting
buy-in to learning from
business leaders.
In reaching out to these five
L&D personalities, we see that
these challenges include:
• corporate L&D still seems
tied to the old ways of doing
things;
• the challenge lies in
balancing the conflicting
priorities of what’s needed
with how this can be
supported through capability
development;
• professional visibility and
relevance;
• achieving consistency; and
• coming up with new ways of
learning.
Here’s what they had to say.
August 2015
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