Learning & Development Innovation Manager

Learning & Development Innovation Manager Slough, Berkshire SL2 5DS (Occasional travel to UK sites & Amsterdam (Corporate Head Office)

With extensive experience of best practice L&D delivery solutions, you are ready to develop your career in a business that will encourage your insight and input, welcome your ideas and act on them. That business is AkzoNobel. Home to the Dulux Super Brand and world class products including Sikkens, Cuprinol and Polycell, we are looking for a senior level L&D professional to lead and manage the deployment of our UK L&D strategy. This is a high profile role within our business, part of a new global L&D operating model combining global aligned programs with local bespoke initiatives.
We operate in a number of important market segments ranging from buildings and infrastructure to transport, industrial and consumer goods. We’re also the sector leader in sustainability and number one in the renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Index. We are also named amongst the Top Employers in the UK.  You can’t make a great impact like this without having great people. We want to be the best – to use our leading market positions to deliver a leading performance – and for that, we need the best.  Is that you?
As the L&D Innovation Manager for all UK businesses you will be the Subject Matter Expert for Learning Delivery Solutions or Architectures.  Working with senior stakeholders you will introduce new approaches that enhance learning transfer, build engagement and maximise impact.  You will be a key change agent towards creating a new learning culture.  You will also be key contributor to the global L&D innovation agenda and partner with local L&D/HR senior teams to identify potential areas of improvement and drive through implementation.  You will also lead the selection of 3rd party learning partners to ensure global and local programs are successfully delivered.

Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) you will possess proven high level experience in L&D strategy at senior level.  You will have expert knowledge of industry leading best practice L&D delivery solutions and latest thinking on sharepoint learner portals, rich media scenarios, interactive gaming, social media, mobile and learner communities. Ideally a CIPD (or equivalent) member with a recognised coaching qualification would be an advantage. You will be commercially astute, results focussed and a team player.  You will be effective at analysing needs and devising cohesive solutions, great at motivating and engaging diverse audiences and be a skilled influencer.

At AkzoNobel, we believe we can only grow our business as fast as we grow our people, so if you want to be L&D Innovation Manager in a business that will invest in you and give you the opportunity to develop please apply below.

AkzoNobel. Where your ideas go far.

LocationSlough, Berkshire SL2 5DS (Occasional travel to UK sites & Amsterdam (Corporate Head Office)SalaryCompetitive Salary & Benefits - up to 10% company bonus, 25 days annual leave, pension, BUPA health insurance, 50% discount on our products.DurationPermanent full timeReference1400063AContact NameN/A

With extensive experience of best practice L&D delivery solutions, you are ready to develop your career in a business that will encourage your insight and input, welcome your ideas and act on them. That business is AkzoNobel. Home to the Dulux Super Brand and world class products including Sikkens, Cuprinol and Polycell, we are looking for a senior level L&D professional to lead and manage the deployment of our UK L&D strategy. This is a high profile role within our business, part of a new global L&D operating model combining global aligned programs with local bespoke initiatives.
We operate in a number of important market segments ranging from buildings and infrastructure to transport, industrial and consumer goods. We’re also the sector leader in sustainability and number one in the renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Index. We are also named amongst the Top Employers in the UK.  You can’t make a great impact like this without having great people. We want to be the best – to use our leading market positions to deliver a leading performance – and for that, we need the best.  Is that you?
As the L&D Innovation Manager for all UK businesses you will be the Subject Matter Expert for Learning Delivery Solutions or Architectures.  Working with senior stakeholders you will introduce new approaches that enhance learning transfer, build engagement and maximise impact.  You will be a key change agent towards creating a new learning culture.  You will also be key contributor to the global L&D innovation agenda and partner with local L&D/HR senior teams to identify potential areas of improvement and drive through implementation.  You will also lead the selection of 3rd party learning partners to ensure global and local programs are successfully delivered.

Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) you will possess proven high level experience in L&D strategy at senior level.  You will have expert knowledge of industry leading best practice L&D delivery solutions and latest thinking on sharepoint learner portals, rich media scenarios, interactive gaming, social media, mobile and learner communities. Ideally a CIPD (or equivalent) member with a recognised coaching qualification would be an advantage. You will be commercially astute, results focussed and a team player.  You will be effective at analysing needs and devising cohesive solutions, great at motivating and engaging diverse audiences and be a skilled influencer.

At AkzoNobel, we believe we can only grow our business as fast as we grow our people, so if you want to be L&D Innovation Manager in a business that will invest in you and give you the opportunity to develop please apply below.

AkzoNobel. Where your ideas go far.

Apply now

View the original article here

Learning and Talent Manager

Learning and Talent Manager City of London

A multi-international specialist Financial Services business is looking for an L&D and Talent Manager to join the team. The new hire will work alongside the new Head of Learning and Talent to design and implement talent initiatives.

The focus of the role is on development, retention and talent management. There is excellent buy in from the wider HR team and senior stakeholder group, therefore the L&D Manager will be innovative and creative.

Responsibilities

Design and implement talent initiatives in line with the firm wide talent strateg to drive high performance

Support firm wide performance management processes including performance appraisals, 360 degree feedback, succession planning and promotion

Engage and partner with the HR Business Partner's to help identify and meet specific functional development needs and consult with the business as appropriate

Assist with the effective communication and marketing of talent and development initiatives

Look for creative opportunities to continuously improve existing L & D processes and work with the wider HR team to re-engineer existing processes

Participate and or lead in wider HR projects as required

The successful candidate will have a broad, full cycle L&D background including significant team management experience and a proven track record of developing and delivering line management training.

LocationCity of LondonSalary£60000 - £65000 per annumReference20541/001Contact NameEmma Castillo

A multi-international specialist Financial Services business is looking for an L&D and Talent Manager to join the team. The new hire will work alongside the new Head of Learning and Talent to design and implement talent initiatives.

The focus of the role is on development, retention and talent management. There is excellent buy in from the wider HR team and senior stakeholder group, therefore the L&D Manager will be innovative and creative.

Responsibilities

Design and implement talent initiatives in line with the firm wide talent strateg to drive high performance

Support firm wide performance management processes including performance appraisals, 360 degree feedback, succession planning and promotion

Engage and partner with the HR Business Partner's to help identify and meet specific functional development needs and consult with the business as appropriate

Assist with the effective communication and marketing of talent and development initiatives

Look for creative opportunities to continuously improve existing L & D processes and work with the wider HR team to re-engineer existing processes

Participate and or lead in wider HR projects as required

The successful candidate will have a broad, full cycle L&D background including significant team management experience and a proven track record of developing and delivering line management training.

Apply now

View the original article here

Leadership & Learning Executive

Leadership & Learning Executive London

Championing innovative approaches to leadership learning, you’ll help to ensure the future for British Airways is stronger than ever. Your remit will have a truly global scope. As one of the leading brands in aviation, we have 44,000 staff based in a range of countries. Their specialties range from customer service to IT and commerce. We’ll look to you to ensure everyone’s leaders benefit from excellent learning and development provision, so we can all fulfil our promise ‘To Fly. To Serve.’

You will work with closely with a wide range of people – from HR and Finance Business Partners, to subject matter experts and, of course, leadership and management learning delegates. Taking care to find out what our business needs, you will scope, design and deliver business-wide learning solutions. Building leadership capability and behaviours, you will help to power high performance worldwide. You’ll also enjoy the opportunity to help Global Learning Academy colleagues create brand new leadership initiatives. Benchmarking trends and supplier knowledge, you’ll make sure everything you do is cutting edge.

To join us, you’ll need to demonstrate a track record of managing end-to-end learning and development with proven ROI. Your expertise spans everything from partnering and consulting, through to design, delivery and evaluation. Ideally, you will be accredited and experienced in the use of psychometrics such as MBTI, SDI and Hogan’s. You’ll certainly be an innovative thinker and a creative problem solver, with impressive influencing and coaching skills and a naturally collaborative approach.

To apply, please click on the apply link to visit our website.

LocationLondonSalaryCompetitive salaryReferenceUKWTS572Contact NameRecruitment

Championing innovative approaches to leadership learning, you’ll help to ensure the future for British Airways is stronger than ever. Your remit will have a truly global scope. As one of the leading brands in aviation, we have 44,000 staff based in a range of countries. Their specialties range from customer service to IT and commerce. We’ll look to you to ensure everyone’s leaders benefit from excellent learning and development provision, so we can all fulfil our promise ‘To Fly. To Serve.’

You will work with closely with a wide range of people – from HR and Finance Business Partners, to subject matter experts and, of course, leadership and management learning delegates. Taking care to find out what our business needs, you will scope, design and deliver business-wide learning solutions. Building leadership capability and behaviours, you will help to power high performance worldwide. You’ll also enjoy the opportunity to help Global Learning Academy colleagues create brand new leadership initiatives. Benchmarking trends and supplier knowledge, you’ll make sure everything you do is cutting edge.

To join us, you’ll need to demonstrate a track record of managing end-to-end learning and development with proven ROI. Your expertise spans everything from partnering and consulting, through to design, delivery and evaluation. Ideally, you will be accredited and experienced in the use of psychometrics such as MBTI, SDI and Hogan’s. You’ll certainly be an innovative thinker and a creative problem solver, with impressive influencing and coaching skills and a naturally collaborative approach.

To apply, please click on the apply link to visit our website.

Apply now

View the original article here

Mobile Learning Boot Camp

Twitter provides me with many benefits, one of which is a forecast of events that are taking place that I might be be interested in. Several days ago I picked up Tweet from @James Clay, who was conducting a Mobile Learning Boot Camp. One email later and I was buying my train ticket to Gloucester. I was a little reticent over attending the event as I work in neither HE, FE nor a work-based learning provider; I do however work for an organisation that delivers an incredible amount of training due to compliance and regulatory driven needs. Upon arrival at the College my rather tenuous attendance was greatly reinforced by seeing a National Skills Academy Nuclear plaque on the wall in the foyer…

what better justification behind attending (at least that’s what I convinced myself).

The day kicked off with James explaining that we would be looking at some current and emerging mobile technologies, before creating some content for ourselves. He even offered a tour of the college to view the approach that they had taken to implementing learning technologies. We then went on to review a whole host of mobile technologies. Of particular interest to me was an application called audioBoo and Posterous. I hope to introduce these free tools to my organisation as a small step towards implementing podcasting and blog. My first attempt at an audioBoo can be heard here.

http://audioboo.fm/boos/149575-you-ve-got-to-listen-to-this

I hadn’t expected to be asked to create my own content during the day, so I hurriedly decided to put together a short movie using my Flip HD camera that I would then push out to my colleagues via YouTube in the hope that it might spark their interest in using mobile technologies to enhance the learning events they deliver. The whole movie took approx 10 minutes to film and put together and probably the same time again to upload and publish. All from a network and Flip camera – very mobile!

Whilst the ‘technical’ side of the day was extremely useful, for me the overall impression  that the day left me with was one of concern over how disconnected my organisation is in terms of utilising technology (let alone mobile technology) for learning activities. This concern has led me to commit to the following when I return to work next week:

Provide feedback to relevant personnel as to the ‘disconnect’ that people would experience when leaving a college such as Gloucester and entering our workplace, in specific relation to the learning tools/materials/environment that are (un)available.Liaise with our IT Department as my organisation will shortly be purchasing new phone handsets for all employees and I hope to be able to convince them to consider additional functionality beyond just ‘making calls’.Push the YouTube video (above) out to our internal Learning Facilitators in the hope that they will consider a greater use of technology (mobile or otherwise) within their learning events.Investigate and promote the use of QR codes around my organisation.

All in all, another great learning experience which will undoubtedly add to my effectiveness within my new role as a Learning Technologist and once again… Cheers James!

View the original article here

Learning & Development Consultant

Learning & Development Consultant Gatwick

The role

Reporting to the Head of Learning & Talent Development (L&TD), the main responsibility of the L&TD Consultant is to take accountability for the content of all leadership, management and general development programmes offered by the CAA to its employees. The role will entail providing thought leadership about the content of the programmes and managing external third party providers who are contracted to design and deliver programmes. This relationship-based role also involves the post-holder in proactively gathering and managing course feedback from delegates to ensure programme content is appropriate, relevant and meeting the current and evolving development needs of the organisation.  For example, the move to a new performance management process will require line manager training which will need to be delivered in a timely and cost-effective way.

As the wider HR function moves to a more customer-centric model, a critical element of this L&TD role will be to develop strong relationships with the HR Business Partners and their business groups to understand the CAA’s development requirements at different management levels. This will include the requirement for the post-holder to provide L&TD Consultancy services to the wider CAA to help managers and colleagues identify the most appropriate solution to their identified development needs, for both individual and team development issues. 

At present, the L&TD function is a green-field site with a broad suite of L&TD programmes being designed and delivered to the CAA for the first time.  Alongside these new initiatives are a range of legacy programmes and a devolved L&D function. Historically, there has also been a lack of investment in IT systems, a situation which is being remedied over the next 12 months. 

The successful candidate will have an enthusiasm for influencing and shaping a new L&TD function for the CAA. There is an ambitious transformation programme running in the CAA which will be implemented over the next 4 years which will create a more efficient organisation.  The HR and L&TD transformation is part of this programme and offers an exciting professional opportunity for the right candidate to help mould and influence the shape of the future L&TD provision for the CAA.

A key project over the next 9 months will to manage the upgrading, implementation and configuration of our Learning Management System (LMS) - Net Dimensions Talent Suite. This will impact on the performance management process (which will need to be reconfigured) and provide increased end-user access to our LMS. The successful candidate will have experience of similar LMS projects.

The L&D team is supported by the L&TD Coordinator who has responsibility for all logistical and administrative arrangements for the calendar of programmes.

The ideal candidate

Strong technical competence in Learning and Development from working within an established L&D function, preferably from set up, but this is not essential.Exposure to a professional services or similar high intellect environment and/or supporting the development needs of more technically orientated individuals would be an advantage.Previous experience of translating employee development needs into learning activities, proactively managing third party providers to design relevant materials and formats.Strong project management skills to manage multiple activities to deadlines and budgets.Experience of the management of LMS systems and their ongoing maintenance and improvementExperience of working in a multi-site environment.Strong communication and relationship building skills.Resilience, flexibility and innovation to find solutions in the (current) absence of joined-up systems and the change management skills to transform along with the function.High degree of personal organisation to handle a wide remit of activity.Must be flexible to travel between the Gatwick and London offices.

In addition to a highly competitive salary that matches your experience, you can expect a wide range of benefits, including pension, generous annual leave allowance and discounted private medical and dental insurance.

Closing date: Tuesday 25 November

Interview date: ASAP 

LocationGatwickSalaryc£45k, dependent on experience ReferenceCAA1Contact NameRecruitment

The role

Reporting to the Head of Learning & Talent Development (L&TD), the main responsibility of the L&TD Consultant is to take accountability for the content of all leadership, management and general development programmes offered by the CAA to its employees. The role will entail providing thought leadership about the content of the programmes and managing external third party providers who are contracted to design and deliver programmes. This relationship-based role also involves the post-holder in proactively gathering and managing course feedback from delegates to ensure programme content is appropriate, relevant and meeting the current and evolving development needs of the organisation.  For example, the move to a new performance management process will require line manager training which will need to be delivered in a timely and cost-effective way.

As the wider HR function moves to a more customer-centric model, a critical element of this L&TD role will be to develop strong relationships with the HR Business Partners and their business groups to understand the CAA’s development requirements at different management levels. This will include the requirement for the post-holder to provide L&TD Consultancy services to the wider CAA to help managers and colleagues identify the most appropriate solution to their identified development needs, for both individual and team development issues. 

At present, the L&TD function is a green-field site with a broad suite of L&TD programmes being designed and delivered to the CAA for the first time.  Alongside these new initiatives are a range of legacy programmes and a devolved L&D function. Historically, there has also been a lack of investment in IT systems, a situation which is being remedied over the next 12 months. 

The successful candidate will have an enthusiasm for influencing and shaping a new L&TD function for the CAA. There is an ambitious transformation programme running in the CAA which will be implemented over the next 4 years which will create a more efficient organisation.  The HR and L&TD transformation is part of this programme and offers an exciting professional opportunity for the right candidate to help mould and influence the shape of the future L&TD provision for the CAA.

A key project over the next 9 months will to manage the upgrading, implementation and configuration of our Learning Management System (LMS) - Net Dimensions Talent Suite. This will impact on the performance management process (which will need to be reconfigured) and provide increased end-user access to our LMS. The successful candidate will have experience of similar LMS projects.

The L&D team is supported by the L&TD Coordinator who has responsibility for all logistical and administrative arrangements for the calendar of programmes.

The ideal candidate

Strong technical competence in Learning and Development from working within an established L&D function, preferably from set up, but this is not essential.Exposure to a professional services or similar high intellect environment and/or supporting the development needs of more technically orientated individuals would be an advantage.Previous experience of translating employee development needs into learning activities, proactively managing third party providers to design relevant materials and formats.Strong project management skills to manage multiple activities to deadlines and budgets.Experience of the management of LMS systems and their ongoing maintenance and improvementExperience of working in a multi-site environment.Strong communication and relationship building skills.Resilience, flexibility and innovation to find solutions in the (current) absence of joined-up systems and the change management skills to transform along with the function.High degree of personal organisation to handle a wide remit of activity.Must be flexible to travel between the Gatwick and London offices.

In addition to a highly competitive salary that matches your experience, you can expect a wide range of benefits, including pension, generous annual leave allowance and discounted private medical and dental insurance.

Closing date: Tuesday 25 November

Interview date: ASAP 

Apply now

View the original article here

Senior Learning and Development Consultant, 55 - 65K, London

Senior Learning and Development Consultant, 55 - 65K, London City of London

Senior Learning and Development Consultant 55 - 65K London

Our fantastic financial services client based in the city, nationwide and throughout Europe are looking for an experienced learning and development professional with a successful history of leading and inspiring teams.

The role will require a strategic mind set but also someone who is happy to roll up their sleeves and design, deliver and evaluate a wide range of learning initiatives.

This role will be the successor to the Head of Learning so is a great role for someone with this aspiration in the next 12 - 18 months

The ideal candidate will have the following:

Financial services background
Experience leading and managing teams
Design and delivery in leadership development
Excellent senior stakeholder management skills

If you would like to apply for this position please send your CV to Maddy White - Annapurna HR by applying to this advertisement

Annapurna facilitates the HR Transformation Network. For the latest visit HRTN.TV

LocationCity of LondonSalary£55000 - £65000 per annum + car, benefitsReferenceBBBH21476Contact NameMaddy White

Senior Learning and Development Consultant 55 - 65K London

Our fantastic financial services client based in the city, nationwide and throughout Europe are looking for an experienced learning and development professional with a successful history of leading and inspiring teams.

The role will require a strategic mind set but also someone who is happy to roll up their sleeves and design, deliver and evaluate a wide range of learning initiatives.

This role will be the successor to the Head of Learning so is a great role for someone with this aspiration in the next 12 - 18 months

The ideal candidate will have the following:

Financial services background
Experience leading and managing teams
Design and delivery in leadership development
Excellent senior stakeholder management skills

If you would like to apply for this position please send your CV to Maddy White - Annapurna HR by applying to this advertisement

Annapurna facilitates the HR Transformation Network. For the latest visit HRTN.TV

Apply now

View the original article here

Learning and Talent Manager

Learning and Talent Manager City of London

A multi-international specialist Financial Services business is looking for an L&D and Talent Manager to join the team. The new hire will work alongside the new Head of Learning and Talent to design and implement talent initiatives.

The focus of the role is on development, retention and talent management. There is excellent buy in from the wider HR team and senior stakeholder group, therefore the L&D Manager will be innovative and creative.

Responsibilities

Design and implement talent initiatives in line with the firm wide talent strateg to drive high performance

Support firm wide performance management processes including performance appraisals, 360 degree feedback, succession planning and promotion

Engage and partner with the HR Business Partner's to help identify and meet specific functional development needs and consult with the business as appropriate

Assist with the effective communication and marketing of talent and development initiatives

Look for creative opportunities to continuously improve existing L & D processes and work with the wider HR team to re-engineer existing processes

Participate and or lead in wider HR projects as required

The successful candidate will have a broad, full cycle L&D background including significant team management experience and a proven track record of developing and delivering line management training.

LocationCity of LondonSalary£60000 - £65000 per annumReference20541/001Contact NameEmma Castillo

A multi-international specialist Financial Services business is looking for an L&D and Talent Manager to join the team. The new hire will work alongside the new Head of Learning and Talent to design and implement talent initiatives.

The focus of the role is on development, retention and talent management. There is excellent buy in from the wider HR team and senior stakeholder group, therefore the L&D Manager will be innovative and creative.

Responsibilities

Design and implement talent initiatives in line with the firm wide talent strateg to drive high performance

Support firm wide performance management processes including performance appraisals, 360 degree feedback, succession planning and promotion

Engage and partner with the HR Business Partner's to help identify and meet specific functional development needs and consult with the business as appropriate

Assist with the effective communication and marketing of talent and development initiatives

Look for creative opportunities to continuously improve existing L & D processes and work with the wider HR team to re-engineer existing processes

Participate and or lead in wider HR projects as required

The successful candidate will have a broad, full cycle L&D background including significant team management experience and a proven track record of developing and delivering line management training.

Apply now

View the original article here

Leadership & Learning Executive

Leadership & Learning Executive London

Championing innovative approaches to leadership learning, you’ll help to ensure the future for British Airways is stronger than ever. Your remit will have a truly global scope. As one of the leading brands in aviation, we have 44,000 staff based in a range of countries. Their specialties range from customer service to IT and commerce. We’ll look to you to ensure everyone’s leaders benefit from excellent learning and development provision, so we can all fulfil our promise ‘To Fly. To Serve.’

You will work with closely with a wide range of people – from HR and Finance Business Partners, to subject matter experts and, of course, leadership and management learning delegates. Taking care to find out what our business needs, you will scope, design and deliver business-wide learning solutions. Building leadership capability and behaviours, you will help to power high performance worldwide. You’ll also enjoy the opportunity to help Global Learning Academy colleagues create brand new leadership initiatives. Benchmarking trends and supplier knowledge, you’ll make sure everything you do is cutting edge.

To join us, you’ll need to demonstrate a track record of managing end-to-end learning and development with proven ROI. Your expertise spans everything from partnering and consulting, through to design, delivery and evaluation. Ideally, you will be accredited and experienced in the use of psychometrics such as MBTI, SDI and Hogan’s. You’ll certainly be an innovative thinker and a creative problem solver, with impressive influencing and coaching skills and a naturally collaborative approach.

To apply, please click on the apply link to visit our website.

LocationLondonSalaryCompetitive salaryReferenceUKWTS572Contact NameRecruitment

Championing innovative approaches to leadership learning, you’ll help to ensure the future for British Airways is stronger than ever. Your remit will have a truly global scope. As one of the leading brands in aviation, we have 44,000 staff based in a range of countries. Their specialties range from customer service to IT and commerce. We’ll look to you to ensure everyone’s leaders benefit from excellent learning and development provision, so we can all fulfil our promise ‘To Fly. To Serve.’

You will work with closely with a wide range of people – from HR and Finance Business Partners, to subject matter experts and, of course, leadership and management learning delegates. Taking care to find out what our business needs, you will scope, design and deliver business-wide learning solutions. Building leadership capability and behaviours, you will help to power high performance worldwide. You’ll also enjoy the opportunity to help Global Learning Academy colleagues create brand new leadership initiatives. Benchmarking trends and supplier knowledge, you’ll make sure everything you do is cutting edge.

To join us, you’ll need to demonstrate a track record of managing end-to-end learning and development with proven ROI. Your expertise spans everything from partnering and consulting, through to design, delivery and evaluation. Ideally, you will be accredited and experienced in the use of psychometrics such as MBTI, SDI and Hogan’s. You’ll certainly be an innovative thinker and a creative problem solver, with impressive influencing and coaching skills and a naturally collaborative approach.

To apply, please click on the apply link to visit our website.

Apply now

View the original article here

Leadership & Learning Executive

Leadership & Learning Executive London

Championing innovative approaches to leadership learning, you’ll help to ensure the future for British Airways is stronger than ever. Your remit will have a truly global scope. As one of the leading brands in aviation, we have 44,000 staff based in a range of countries. Their specialties range from customer service to IT and commerce. We’ll look to you to ensure everyone’s leaders benefit from excellent learning and development provision, so we can all fulfil our promise ‘To Fly. To Serve.’

You will work with closely with a wide range of people – from HR and Finance Business Partners, to subject matter experts and, of course, leadership and management learning delegates. Taking care to find out what our business needs, you will scope, design and deliver business-wide learning solutions. Building leadership capability and behaviours, you will help to power high performance worldwide. You’ll also enjoy the opportunity to help Global Learning Academy colleagues create brand new leadership initiatives. Benchmarking trends and supplier knowledge, you’ll make sure everything you do is cutting edge.

To join us, you’ll need to demonstrate a track record of managing end-to-end learning and development with proven ROI. Your expertise spans everything from partnering and consulting, through to design, delivery and evaluation. Ideally, you will be accredited and experienced in the use of psychometrics such as MBTI, SDI and Hogan’s. You’ll certainly be an innovative thinker and a creative problem solver, with impressive influencing and coaching skills and a naturally collaborative approach.

To apply, please click on the apply link to visit our website.

LocationLondonSalaryCompetitive salaryReferenceUKWTS572Contact NameRecruitment

Championing innovative approaches to leadership learning, you’ll help to ensure the future for British Airways is stronger than ever. Your remit will have a truly global scope. As one of the leading brands in aviation, we have 44,000 staff based in a range of countries. Their specialties range from customer service to IT and commerce. We’ll look to you to ensure everyone’s leaders benefit from excellent learning and development provision, so we can all fulfil our promise ‘To Fly. To Serve.’

You will work with closely with a wide range of people – from HR and Finance Business Partners, to subject matter experts and, of course, leadership and management learning delegates. Taking care to find out what our business needs, you will scope, design and deliver business-wide learning solutions. Building leadership capability and behaviours, you will help to power high performance worldwide. You’ll also enjoy the opportunity to help Global Learning Academy colleagues create brand new leadership initiatives. Benchmarking trends and supplier knowledge, you’ll make sure everything you do is cutting edge.

To join us, you’ll need to demonstrate a track record of managing end-to-end learning and development with proven ROI. Your expertise spans everything from partnering and consulting, through to design, delivery and evaluation. Ideally, you will be accredited and experienced in the use of psychometrics such as MBTI, SDI and Hogan’s. You’ll certainly be an innovative thinker and a creative problem solver, with impressive influencing and coaching skills and a naturally collaborative approach.

To apply, please click on the apply link to visit our website.

Apply now

View the original article here

Leadership & Learning Executive

Leadership & Learning Executive London

Championing innovative approaches to leadership learning, you’ll help to ensure the future for British Airways is stronger than ever. Your remit will have a truly global scope. As one of the leading brands in aviation, we have 44,000 staff based in a range of countries. Their specialties range from customer service to IT and commerce. We’ll look to you to ensure everyone’s leaders benefit from excellent learning and development provision, so we can all fulfil our promise ‘To Fly. To Serve.’

You will work with closely with a wide range of people – from HR and Finance Business Partners, to subject matter experts and, of course, leadership and management learning delegates. Taking care to find out what our business needs, you will scope, design and deliver business-wide learning solutions. Building leadership capability and behaviours, you will help to power high performance worldwide. You’ll also enjoy the opportunity to help Global Learning Academy colleagues create brand new leadership initiatives. Benchmarking trends and supplier knowledge, you’ll make sure everything you do is cutting edge.

To join us, you’ll need to demonstrate a track record of managing end-to-end learning and development with proven ROI. Your expertise spans everything from partnering and consulting, through to design, delivery and evaluation. Ideally, you will be accredited and experienced in the use of psychometrics such as MBTI, SDI and Hogan’s. You’ll certainly be an innovative thinker and a creative problem solver, with impressive influencing and coaching skills and a naturally collaborative approach.

To apply, please click on the apply link to visit our website.

LocationLondonSalaryCompetitive salaryReferenceUKWTS572Contact NameRecruitment

Championing innovative approaches to leadership learning, you’ll help to ensure the future for British Airways is stronger than ever. Your remit will have a truly global scope. As one of the leading brands in aviation, we have 44,000 staff based in a range of countries. Their specialties range from customer service to IT and commerce. We’ll look to you to ensure everyone’s leaders benefit from excellent learning and development provision, so we can all fulfil our promise ‘To Fly. To Serve.’

You will work with closely with a wide range of people – from HR and Finance Business Partners, to subject matter experts and, of course, leadership and management learning delegates. Taking care to find out what our business needs, you will scope, design and deliver business-wide learning solutions. Building leadership capability and behaviours, you will help to power high performance worldwide. You’ll also enjoy the opportunity to help Global Learning Academy colleagues create brand new leadership initiatives. Benchmarking trends and supplier knowledge, you’ll make sure everything you do is cutting edge.

To join us, you’ll need to demonstrate a track record of managing end-to-end learning and development with proven ROI. Your expertise spans everything from partnering and consulting, through to design, delivery and evaluation. Ideally, you will be accredited and experienced in the use of psychometrics such as MBTI, SDI and Hogan’s. You’ll certainly be an innovative thinker and a creative problem solver, with impressive influencing and coaching skills and a naturally collaborative approach.

To apply, please click on the apply link to visit our website.

Apply now

View the original article here

Emotional Experiences: The Underrated Key to Successful Online Learning, David Guralnick #ICELW Concurrent Session Notes

Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

View the original article here

Learning & Development Specialist

Learning & Development Specialist Manchester

Due to the secondment of the existing post holder, an exciting fixed term opportunity has arisen for an innovative and dynamic Learning and Development Specialist to join our highly motivated and progressive Human Resources Division.

This impactful role is designed to create an inspirational and innovative learning and development culture which is central to our University’s success and is highly regarded by our people. 

Working proactively with senior leaders, business managers and HR Business Partners you will analyse and identify learning and development needs.   As part of a wider team of forward thinking specialists you will collaboratively provide innovative and creative learning and development solutions to support the strategic and operational business needs of our University, its employees and teams.

To be successful in this role we are looking for an enthusiastic individual with energy and passion who has had significant experience of working with senior managers and leaders to shape strategic and operational learning and development interventions and solutions. 

You will have a demonstrable track record of success in the application of learning and development solutions with evidence of providing tangible improvements in individual and business performance.  The successful candidate will also have confidence operating in an environment of transformational change, and have the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse audience through the delivery of blended learning techniques and the application of e-learning technology.

To gain further insight into the role and to apply for the vacancy please follow the link below.

Closing date: 15 February 2015

The University of Salford is committed to an inclusive approach to equality and diversity.

LocationManchesterSalary£38,511 - £45,954 PADurationFull time, Fixed term – 24 monthsReference1443770Contact NameRecruitment

Due to the secondment of the existing post holder, an exciting fixed term opportunity has arisen for an innovative and dynamic Learning and Development Specialist to join our highly motivated and progressive Human Resources Division.

This impactful role is designed to create an inspirational and innovative learning and development culture which is central to our University’s success and is highly regarded by our people. 

Working proactively with senior leaders, business managers and HR Business Partners you will analyse and identify learning and development needs.   As part of a wider team of forward thinking specialists you will collaboratively provide innovative and creative learning and development solutions to support the strategic and operational business needs of our University, its employees and teams.

To be successful in this role we are looking for an enthusiastic individual with energy and passion who has had significant experience of working with senior managers and leaders to shape strategic and operational learning and development interventions and solutions. 

You will have a demonstrable track record of success in the application of learning and development solutions with evidence of providing tangible improvements in individual and business performance.  The successful candidate will also have confidence operating in an environment of transformational change, and have the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse audience through the delivery of blended learning techniques and the application of e-learning technology.

To gain further insight into the role and to apply for the vacancy please follow the link below.

Closing date: 15 February 2015

The University of Salford is committed to an inclusive approach to equality and diversity.

Apply now

View the original article here

Learning & Development Officer, Maternity Cover (up to 12 months)

Learning & Development Officer, Maternity Cover (up to 12 months) Windor, Berkshire

Purpose of Role
The L&D Officer will support service delivery through the design, implementation and delivery of practical training programmes for new and existing employees across the business and support implementation of business strategy.

Key areas of role and responsibilities:

Coordinate training plans across the business for new and existing employees;Carry out training needs analysis (TNA) as requested (by project office, line managers, senior managers and directors) and identify learning needs for roles across the business (including system builds and projects);Design, build and deliver training interventions to suit training needs identified across the business;Plan and deliver generic induction training plan(s) to new employees;Deliver skills based training (including generalist induction courses) to customer services and sales roles within the online “Express products/services” teams;Facilitate training sessions where delivery subject is not familiar (using a subject matter expert within the business team to assist with delivery and / or technical content);Deliver regulatory / legal training in accordance with business strategy (Anti-Money Laundering / Data Protection)Ensure timely and accurate general administration and record keeping of training activities on ADPDuties & Responsibilities

Implementation and Delivery:

Training Plans

To create and communicate training plans for frontline customer service team, private client services team (in-bound sales and dealing) and operations & payments (back-office) teams;

Customer Services

To deliver practical Customer Service training sessions to best practice standards (e.g. CIPD) through one-to-one or group sessions (for both frontline Customer Service and Operations based staff)

Sales (including Dealing)

To deliver generic sales training for Corporate Express and Private Client Services teams (e.g. Revenue generating teams)

Induction Training

To deliver initial induction/orientation training for all new startersTo coordinate and deliver new starter programme courses during in accordance with the agreed SLA’s To ensure all relevant training milestones and activity is completed to agreed standards

Regulatory / Legal Training

To support the delivery of AML (Anti Money Laundering) and DP (Data Protection) training and any associated regulatory training as required for different parts of the businessTo support HR with the delivery of required HR legislative training to management teams

Record Keeping

To maintain a Learner Management System (LMS) via ADP systemsTo keep timely and accurate records of all training completed

Skill and Expertise

CIPD (Certificate in Training Practice) or equivalent training qualificationPrevious experience working within the financial services sector (FS / banking / insurance / FX payments)Previous experience working for a SME within a L&D training role (delivery)Confident and articulate presentation skills / group training (up to 10 people per session)Ability to work with minimal supervisionAbility to build effective relationships with team members and managementAn in depth knowledge of L&D gained through both experience and understanding of current theories

About HiFX
HiFX provides unrivalled foreign exchange and international payment services to businesses and private individuals around the globe. To date we have transferred over £100 billion on behalf of our clients and are one of the world’s leading foreign currency specialists – trusted by over 5,000 companies from 100 industry sectors and assisting 75,000+ private individuals each year. For more information about our products and services please visit www.hifx.co.uk

We remain passionate about what we do and our people are at the centre of everything that we do. HiFX currently employs 210+ employees across its offices spanning the UK, Europe and Australasia.

We believe that we have a compelling employment proposition, offering attractive salaries, benefits and opportunity for career development. HiFX is proud to feature amongst the UK’s best companies to work for in 2006/07/08 and 2014.

Interested?

Please submit your CV and covering letter to our in-house recruitment team via the 'Apply now' link below.

LocationWindor, BerkshireSalary£26,000-£30,000 per annum, up to 20% bonus + benefitsReferenceHiFXLDOContact NameRecruitment

Purpose of Role
The L&D Officer will support service delivery through the design, implementation and delivery of practical training programmes for new and existing employees across the business and support implementation of business strategy.

Key areas of role and responsibilities:

Coordinate training plans across the business for new and existing employees;Carry out training needs analysis (TNA) as requested (by project office, line managers, senior managers and directors) and identify learning needs for roles across the business (including system builds and projects);Design, build and deliver training interventions to suit training needs identified across the business;Plan and deliver generic induction training plan(s) to new employees;Deliver skills based training (including generalist induction courses) to customer services and sales roles within the online “Express products/services” teams;Facilitate training sessions where delivery subject is not familiar (using a subject matter expert within the business team to assist with delivery and / or technical content);Deliver regulatory / legal training in accordance with business strategy (Anti-Money Laundering / Data Protection)Ensure timely and accurate general administration and record keeping of training activities on ADPDuties & Responsibilities

Implementation and Delivery:

Training Plans

To create and communicate training plans for frontline customer service team, private client services team (in-bound sales and dealing) and operations & payments (back-office) teams;

Customer Services

To deliver practical Customer Service training sessions to best practice standards (e.g. CIPD) through one-to-one or group sessions (for both frontline Customer Service and Operations based staff)

Sales (including Dealing)

To deliver generic sales training for Corporate Express and Private Client Services teams (e.g. Revenue generating teams)

Induction Training

To deliver initial induction/orientation training for all new startersTo coordinate and deliver new starter programme courses during in accordance with the agreed SLA’s To ensure all relevant training milestones and activity is completed to agreed standards

Regulatory / Legal Training

To support the delivery of AML (Anti Money Laundering) and DP (Data Protection) training and any associated regulatory training as required for different parts of the businessTo support HR with the delivery of required HR legislative training to management teams

Record Keeping

To maintain a Learner Management System (LMS) via ADP systemsTo keep timely and accurate records of all training completed

Skill and Expertise

CIPD (Certificate in Training Practice) or equivalent training qualificationPrevious experience working within the financial services sector (FS / banking / insurance / FX payments)Previous experience working for a SME within a L&D training role (delivery)Confident and articulate presentation skills / group training (up to 10 people per session)Ability to work with minimal supervisionAbility to build effective relationships with team members and managementAn in depth knowledge of L&D gained through both experience and understanding of current theories

About HiFX
HiFX provides unrivalled foreign exchange and international payment services to businesses and private individuals around the globe. To date we have transferred over £100 billion on behalf of our clients and are one of the world’s leading foreign currency specialists – trusted by over 5,000 companies from 100 industry sectors and assisting 75,000+ private individuals each year. For more information about our products and services please visit www.hifx.co.uk

We remain passionate about what we do and our people are at the centre of everything that we do. HiFX currently employs 210+ employees across its offices spanning the UK, Europe and Australasia.

We believe that we have a compelling employment proposition, offering attractive salaries, benefits and opportunity for career development. HiFX is proud to feature amongst the UK’s best companies to work for in 2006/07/08 and 2014.

Interested?

Please submit your CV and covering letter to our in-house recruitment team via the 'Apply now' link below.

Apply now

View the original article here

Senior Learning & Development Manager - Commercial

Description

From a secret recipe to a bold idea and very proud traditions, we build the future. Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) manufactures, distributes, sells and markets some of the world’s strongest brands in non-alcoholic beverages. We are part of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, the leading Western European marketer, distributor, and producer of bottle and can non-alcoholic refreshments and the world’s third-largest independent Coca-Cola bottler. Some of the brands you will find in our portfolio are Coca-Cola®, Fanta®, Powerade®, Glaceau Vitaminwater®, Monster® and Caprisun®.

Leading brands, great people, growth and the reward that comes with it: the raw materials for success are right here. But still, success depends on our skilled management sharing thirst: a thirst for getting more and better from our people and systems, a thirst for pushing limits, and a thirst for the rigour and challenge of a fast moving business.

Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

Senior Learning and Development Manager

Permanent

What you become a part of

• Leading a team to consult, design & deliver learning solutions for the Commercial Function across Europe
• To design solutions through internal or external methods that delivers a performance improvement through effective learning and development.
• To lead the deployment of quality learning solutions for the Commercial Functions
• Front Line Account Manage the Commercial HRBP teams as appropriate
• Line Manage a team of European L&D Managers

What to expect

• Consult and design solutions through internal or external resources to deliver a quality solution for our customers
• Work with L&D Services to review effectiveness of solution and evaluate ROI.
• Line management of L&D Managers to ensure all solutions are delivered on time and to agreed objectives
• Proving a first class L&D service to the European Sales and Marketing Team
• Delivering the budget and management of vendors
• Full implementation of the L&D Commercial Plan
• Managing design feedback from facilitators/L&D Managers
• Managing relationships with HRBPs and Commercial Stakeholders
• Delivery of quality L&D projects on time, in budget and meeting the business needs
• Performance management of L&D Managers
• Budgetary management

Job Activities

• Partner the HRBP for Commercial European Teams to deliver key projects and initiatives from a professional L&D perspective
• Using internal consultancy methodology, design and deliver a learning solution that delivers the requested business need and raises performance/capability.
• Lead key internal L&D projects to improve business performance and build the capability of our people
• Lead work with the L&D Services/ field L&D team to ensure an effective implementation plan for rollout.
• Build and maintain positive external contacts to keep up to date with the external market and latest trends in L&D.
• Apply project management methodology to manage and monitor progress on development solutions.
• Be responsible for the budget in line with design/implementation costings and travel expenditure
• Identify and evaluate future trends within the Development ‘market’.
• Liaise with the Instructional design team where required
• Lead the L&D Design to deliver quality L&D solutions with pace, efficiency and creativity
• Deliver senior training where required.
• Manage queries from facilitators on course content and feed through to the relevant L&D Manager
• Ensure sufficient supplies of materials are available to meet the plan
• Review evaluation feedback, define appropriate actions and progress
• Line manage and deliver the ‘My Development Experience’ for L&D Managers and ensure appropriate resource and capability levels within the team
• Continuously assess the quality assurance activities to ensure the standard of delivered training is in line with requirements. Coach as appropriate to improve standards
• Act as point of reference for, and supply expert advice to facilitators with regard to course delivery
• Identify where learning products may require update/maintenance, action or feed through as appropriate
• Deputise for the AD Commercial as necessary

Qualifications

What we expect of you

Experience in applying organisation development solutions in a cross matrix organisationExtensive L&D design and delivery expertiseExperience in leading large scale, complex projects from an L&D perspectiveStrong theoretical understanding of Learning development and how to apply in a pragmatic way to deliver an effective result for the customerProven track record of large scale, remote team managementExcellent internal consulting skillsProject management skillsExcellent communication and facilitation skillsPsychometric assessment tools - advantageousCIPD or country equivalent – preferredEuropean Travel 15-30%

Application

If this role is of interest to you, please upload a recent copy of your CV below and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

www.cokecce.com/careers

We believe that equal opportunities means inclusion, diversity and fair treatment for all.

Apply now

View the original article here

Learning & Organisation Development Consultant

Learning & Organisation Development Consultant London

Looking for an opportunity to apply your first-rate Learning and Organisational Development expertise to make a real difference? Your contribution will help Macmillan achieve its goal of reaching and improving the lives of everyone affected by cancer.

We are looking to recruit an internal consultant to support the delivery of a range of learning and organisational development interventions which will help build a learning and performance culture, an engaged workforce and the capability needed to deliver Macmillan’s Fundraising People Strategy. Working with senior leaders you will identify and meet development needs at individual, team and organisational level.

To succeed in this role, you will have experience of identifying needs and delivering or commissioning a range of blended learning interventions. You will be skilled in shaping and driving multiple projects in a fast paced and changing organisation. You will be an exceptional communicator with strong consulting, presentation and facilitation skills.

In addition, you will be able to demonstrate the business benefits of the learning and development activities you have implemented, backed by solid knowledge of learning and OD principles gained through relevant qualifications and/or significant experience in learning and organisational development.

And in return for the commitment and skills you bring to our established, supportive and high-performing team? We commit to actively developing you and offer excellent benefits including BUPA, life assurance, pension, childcare vouchers, generous annual leave, and interest-free loans for season ticket and gym membership.
Closing date: 23rd April 2014

For more information and to apply please click apply below.

LocationLondonSalary£40,000 - £45,000 + BenefitsReference1602Contact NameRecruitment

Looking for an opportunity to apply your first-rate Learning and Organisational Development expertise to make a real difference? Your contribution will help Macmillan achieve its goal of reaching and improving the lives of everyone affected by cancer.

We are looking to recruit an internal consultant to support the delivery of a range of learning and organisational development interventions which will help build a learning and performance culture, an engaged workforce and the capability needed to deliver Macmillan’s Fundraising People Strategy. Working with senior leaders you will identify and meet development needs at individual, team and organisational level.

To succeed in this role, you will have experience of identifying needs and delivering or commissioning a range of blended learning interventions. You will be skilled in shaping and driving multiple projects in a fast paced and changing organisation. You will be an exceptional communicator with strong consulting, presentation and facilitation skills.

In addition, you will be able to demonstrate the business benefits of the learning and development activities you have implemented, backed by solid knowledge of learning and OD principles gained through relevant qualifications and/or significant experience in learning and organisational development.

And in return for the commitment and skills you bring to our established, supportive and high-performing team? We commit to actively developing you and offer excellent benefits including BUPA, life assurance, pension, childcare vouchers, generous annual leave, and interest-free loans for season ticket and gym membership.
Closing date: 23rd April 2014

For more information and to apply please click apply below.

Apply now

View the original article here

Head of Learning and Development

Head of Learning and Development South West London We are currently recruiting for a client who is an exciting Top 100 law firm based in London.

Reporting to the firm's Chief Executive, the Head of Learning & Development will develop, advise and implement L&D strategies firm-wide in order to achieve both the company and people strategy. 

Objectives:

Ensure relevant learning initiatives are provided for staff at all levels and ensure compliance with SRA and firm requirementsDevelop, communicate & deliver clear firm-wide learning programmes for all staffTo deliver ad hoc learning and development projects as directed by the board and support other firm-wide initiativesEnsure the investors in people standard is met within L&DTo lead on the design and delivery of company performance and development programmes Key Areas:

LearningPartnersExecutivesSupport StaffCoachingConferences & Away DaysTraineesOn-line Library / Knowledge ResourcesEvaluation & ReportingPerson Specification:

Previous experience of working in a law firm Experience of working as a fee-earning lawyer Client/stakeholder orientation, leadership skills, effective communicationDegree and/or Masters in a related topic / a relevant HR or L&D qualification CIPDEvidence of education / training in L&DLocationSouth West LondonSalary£65,000 / £75,000 Per AnnumReferenceDL/HR10051Contact NameSarah LawrenceWe are currently recruiting for a client who is an exciting Top 100 law firm based in London.

Reporting to the firm's Chief Executive, the Head of Learning & Development will develop, advise and implement L&D strategies firm-wide in order to achieve both the company and people strategy. 

Objectives:

Ensure relevant learning initiatives are provided for staff at all levels and ensure compliance with SRA and firm requirementsDevelop, communicate & deliver clear firm-wide learning programmes for all staffTo deliver ad hoc learning and development projects as directed by the board and support other firm-wide initiativesEnsure the investors in people standard is met within L&DTo lead on the design and delivery of company performance and development programmes Key Areas:

LearningPartnersExecutivesSupport StaffCoachingConferences & Away DaysTraineesOn-line Library / Knowledge ResourcesEvaluation & ReportingPerson Specification:

Previous experience of working in a law firm Experience of working as a fee-earning lawyer Client/stakeholder orientation, leadership skills, effective communicationDegree and/or Masters in a related topic / a relevant HR or L&D qualification CIPDEvidence of education / training in L&D

Apply now

View the original article here

Learning and Development Consultants

Learning and Development Consultants Birmingham, Leeds or Nottingham

The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing information and advice, and by influencing policymakers. At national Citizens Advice we work in close partnership with bureaux to ensure an effective and high quality service for all.

Joining a dynamic and creative team your role will include the development of learning materials for the Citizens Advice Bureaux.

You must have an excellent understanding of adult learning within a competence based framework and effective communication skills. With experience of designing and supporting learning and development activities, you must be able to manage a varied workload and work on your own initiative. Desirable, but not essential, is knowledge of pension guidance or court witness services.

When filling in the application form, please state in the box for essential criteria no 1, whether you would like to be considered for the permanent post, the 12 month post, or both.

Citizens Advice values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, as they are currently under represented in our workforce.

For more information and to apply please follow the 'Apply now' link.

Closing Date: 22 March 2015
Interview Date: 1 and 2 April 2015 in Birmingham

LocationBirmingham, Leeds or NottinghamSalaryUp to £32,821 per annumReference15\038 Contact NameRecruitment

The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing information and advice, and by influencing policymakers. At national Citizens Advice we work in close partnership with bureaux to ensure an effective and high quality service for all.

Joining a dynamic and creative team your role will include the development of learning materials for the Citizens Advice Bureaux.

You must have an excellent understanding of adult learning within a competence based framework and effective communication skills. With experience of designing and supporting learning and development activities, you must be able to manage a varied workload and work on your own initiative. Desirable, but not essential, is knowledge of pension guidance or court witness services.

When filling in the application form, please state in the box for essential criteria no 1, whether you would like to be considered for the permanent post, the 12 month post, or both.

Citizens Advice values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, as they are currently under represented in our workforce.

For more information and to apply please follow the 'Apply now' link.

Closing Date: 22 March 2015
Interview Date: 1 and 2 April 2015 in Birmingham

Apply now

View the original article here

Learning Beyond the Course (eLN event)

Once again I have been lucky enough to attend a fantastic CPD event in the shape of todays eLN event – Learning Beyond the Course.

@RobHubbard was our compère for the day, decked out as usual in a gloriously flowery shirt

(where do you get them from Rob?)

In line with my previous Blog post ‘Small Chunks‘ I was committed to taking away 1 Action Planning point per session that I could actually do something with back in my organisation.

Here we go…

Ben Betts – And Now For Something Completely Different…

If you’ve ever wondered what you can do with a paper clip, a stick, some constraint and a carrot then you’ll be gutted that you missed Ben’s session. But ‘cos he’s a good bloke he’s blogged about it in some detail here.

Which leads me to my action planning point(s)

Try and sweet-talk Ben into sending me the game that he kicked his session off with (very clever and innovative)Read Daniel Pink’s Drive (Ben referenced this several times and as we have it sat in our library it makes sense to have a look)

Graeme Duncan – Breaking Down Barriers: The Ubiquitous Delivery of Thin Client Immersive Simulations

I’ll be the first to admit that the title of this session was more than a little off-putting when I read about this event on the eLN website, but once I realised that we were going to be ‘virtually’ running around a Type 22 RN frigate, putting out fires and catching saboteurs I was hooked! It was certainly enlightening  to hear that Caspian Learning have been creating some realistic virtual environments for some VERY security-conscious clients…. interesting…

Log into Thinking Worlds and request a demoInvite Graeme into my organisation to demo Thinking Worlds.

Ed Stonestreet – Not eLearning

Ed reminded us that the elearning industry is worth $10bn and is almost without exception dull, dry and academic. As I work within a highly-regulated Industry I could certainly relate to Ed’s point that it is focussed on those who have a mandate to learn, those who need to tick a box. Apparently only 20% of any audience is motivated and inspired to act, the other 80% may have a latent interest but they need to be engaged, entertained and wowed in order to get them to participate. How can this be done….? Well Ed went on to explain in not so many words the Affective Context model, which I aren’t going to attempt to explain here, instead I’ll direct you towards Nick Shackleton-Jones blog.

Ed made such a good job of raising the issue of ‘engagement’ and ‘interest raising’ that I am going to direct our internal Learning Facilitators towards the Affective Context model video.Review the YooDoo tool that Ed is involved in.

Rob had promised us an excellent lunch and Holborn Bars certainly didn’t disappoint!!!

Following lunch we had 3 great Pecha Kucha presentations, I’ve come to realise that these appear to be a staple element of an eLN event and I look forward to seeing them; who knows I may even present one at the November event (if anybody from the eLN board is reading this, that wasn’t a formal commitment!)

Jane Hart – Transforming Workplace Learning with Social Media

Jane Hart – Transforming Workplace Learning with Social Media

It was great to see Jane Hart again after lunch as the last time we met was at a Twitter workshop that she ran back in the Spring at the Informatology conference. Jane (as always) did a great job of proving the power of Twitter as a crowd-sourcing tool by calling upon her Twitter followers to respond to various questions that she was ‘auto-tweeting’ during her presentation. I was quite surprised to discover how few people in the immediate audience were Twitter users, although this is a pattern that I have noticed emerging at the IITT conference and the eLN showcase…. I wonder why….?

Patrick Fitzpatrick – Living in a World Without ‘Click Next to Continue’

Patrick addressed an issue that I have been working on for sometime in my organisation which is “how can my learners progress through a piece of elearning’ without a next button on the screen. He had some great examples of using visuals to act as menu screens, which mirrors an approach I have taken with a Display Screen Equipment awareness package.  This visual approach seemed to split the audience into 2 groups; those that ‘got it’ and those that thought that introducing a ‘fun’, visual component was a distraction and on some occasions set a false impression of how dull, boring and repetitive working life can be

Patrick made a great reference to the level of elearning interaction over the years:

Yesterdays elearning = dictationTodays elearning = investigationTomorrows elearning = exploration (hopefully!)

So what were my action planning points?

Continue the work I am doing on removing the next button from my elearning module and then…publicise this to the remaining elearning authors to show them that it ‘is’ possible.

Throughout the day the entire conference had taken the form of a crossword/wordsearch/game of battleships which I thought was really innovative and brought an interesting element to the event, my only concern with taking this approach was that I (and perhaps my learners) would be so distracted by the gaming element that the learning could suffer… not something I’m instantly dismissing though, and as with the rest of the day has provided food for thought….

View the original article here

Senior Learning & Development Manager - Commercial

Description

From a secret recipe to a bold idea and very proud traditions, we build the future. Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) manufactures, distributes, sells and markets some of the world’s strongest brands in non-alcoholic beverages. We are part of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, the leading Western European marketer, distributor, and producer of bottle and can non-alcoholic refreshments and the world’s third-largest independent Coca-Cola bottler. Some of the brands you will find in our portfolio are Coca-Cola®, Fanta®, Powerade®, Glaceau Vitaminwater®, Monster® and Caprisun®.

Leading brands, great people, growth and the reward that comes with it: the raw materials for success are right here. But still, success depends on our skilled management sharing thirst: a thirst for getting more and better from our people and systems, a thirst for pushing limits, and a thirst for the rigour and challenge of a fast moving business.

Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

Senior Learning and Development Manager

Permanent

What you become a part of

• Leading a team to consult, design & deliver learning solutions for the Commercial Function across Europe
• To design solutions through internal or external methods that delivers a performance improvement through effective learning and development.
• To lead the deployment of quality learning solutions for the Commercial Functions
• Front Line Account Manage the Commercial HRBP teams as appropriate
• Line Manage a team of European L&D Managers

What to expect

• Consult and design solutions through internal or external resources to deliver a quality solution for our customers
• Work with L&D Services to review effectiveness of solution and evaluate ROI.
• Line management of L&D Managers to ensure all solutions are delivered on time and to agreed objectives
• Proving a first class L&D service to the European Sales and Marketing Team
• Delivering the budget and management of vendors
• Full implementation of the L&D Commercial Plan
• Managing design feedback from facilitators/L&D Managers
• Managing relationships with HRBPs and Commercial Stakeholders
• Delivery of quality L&D projects on time, in budget and meeting the business needs
• Performance management of L&D Managers
• Budgetary management

Job Activities

• Partner the HRBP for Commercial European Teams to deliver key projects and initiatives from a professional L&D perspective
• Using internal consultancy methodology, design and deliver a learning solution that delivers the requested business need and raises performance/capability.
• Lead key internal L&D projects to improve business performance and build the capability of our people
• Lead work with the L&D Services/ field L&D team to ensure an effective implementation plan for rollout.
• Build and maintain positive external contacts to keep up to date with the external market and latest trends in L&D.
• Apply project management methodology to manage and monitor progress on development solutions.
• Be responsible for the budget in line with design/implementation costings and travel expenditure
• Identify and evaluate future trends within the Development ‘market’.
• Liaise with the Instructional design team where required
• Lead the L&D Design to deliver quality L&D solutions with pace, efficiency and creativity
• Deliver senior training where required.
• Manage queries from facilitators on course content and feed through to the relevant L&D Manager
• Ensure sufficient supplies of materials are available to meet the plan
• Review evaluation feedback, define appropriate actions and progress
• Line manage and deliver the ‘My Development Experience’ for L&D Managers and ensure appropriate resource and capability levels within the team
• Continuously assess the quality assurance activities to ensure the standard of delivered training is in line with requirements. Coach as appropriate to improve standards
• Act as point of reference for, and supply expert advice to facilitators with regard to course delivery
• Identify where learning products may require update/maintenance, action or feed through as appropriate
• Deputise for the AD Commercial as necessary

Qualifications

What we expect of you

Experience in applying organisation development solutions in a cross matrix organisationExtensive L&D design and delivery expertiseExperience in leading large scale, complex projects from an L&D perspectiveStrong theoretical understanding of Learning development and how to apply in a pragmatic way to deliver an effective result for the customerProven track record of large scale, remote team managementExcellent internal consulting skillsProject management skillsExcellent communication and facilitation skillsPsychometric assessment tools - advantageousCIPD or country equivalent – preferredEuropean Travel 15-30%

Application

If this role is of interest to you, please upload a recent copy of your CV below and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

www.cokecce.com/careers

We believe that equal opportunities means inclusion, diversity and fair treatment for all.

Apply now

View the original article here

Senior Learning Strategist (Global role)

Senior Learning Strategist (Global role) Central London

We are Sapient. For over two decades we have been partnering with some of the world’s most recognized brands and organizations, helping them transform their businesses and operations to succeed and thrive in a fast-changing digital world.

We operate three divisions: SapientNitro, Sapient Global Markets, and Sapient Government Services, each with extensive capabilities and expertise to address the particular industries they serve.

But what we all have in common, what each of our 11,000+ team members in 35 offices across the globe share, is an all encompassing drive to do whatever it takes. To overcome any obstacle, to exceed expectations, and create fanatical advocates – within our clients and ourselves. In fact, we’re proud to claim that our unique culture and values are part of case studies being used by MBA programs at Harvard and Yale.

Sapient is looking for individuals who want to make a difference. Our environment fosters growth and creativity, demands openness and client-focused delivery, and celebrates initiative and risk-taking.

If this sounds like you, then we should talk.

Role Purpose

The Senior Manager, Learning Strategy is responsible for the successful design, delivery and management of programs that facilitate continuous learning of people at all levels within the Global Markets Business Unit. He/she will work closely with business leaders, practice leads and people team members to develop a learning approach aligned with the business strategy and based on the thoughtful identification and prioritization of training requirements. This person will focus on leading a learning strategy for a highly mobile, consultative and largely millennial workforce of approximately 4,000 people.

Key Responsibilities:

Learning Strategy (30%)

Create a world class learning strategy that combines multiple delivery vehicles, services and vendorsDesign and develop learning solutions that leverage industry best practices, resonate with key stakeholders and align with the strategic plan of the Business UnitIdentify emerging trends that are impactful, inventive and relevant for a mobile workforce

Vendor Strategy (15%)

Source, evaluate, and negotiate contracts with and manage the performance of outside vendors and/or consultants offering specialized training and development solutionsManage vendor spend and routinely audit vendors to ensure relevance and business impact

Learning Management System Strategy (15%)

Lead the LMS Strategy, which includes evaluating the effectiveness of the current application and the best way to deliver learning solutions to a highly mobile workforceProvide strategic and operational direction to the LMS team owners around best practices, issue resolution and optimal user experience 

Budget Management & Measurement (10%)

Identify success criteria with the business prior to the development of learning solutionsManage the global learning investment / budgetReport on success of learning initiatives to business and HR leadership and tie to business objectivesProject & Team Management (30%)Provide leadership, direction and guidance to a globally distributed team of 6 peopleResolve issues and mentor team in all aspects of their growth and developmentCreate a strong global team environment and be a driver for global standards and quality outcomes 

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree10+ years HR, consulting or learning & development with at least 5 years’ experience in learning3+ years of experience in managing a team

Experience

Self-starter who can develop and execute strategiesExperience in a global, matrixed organization that is ambiguous and fast pacedStrong leadership skills, executive presence and experience working and influencing business leaders to successfully drive initiatives and gain cross-functional commitment and supportStrong business acumen and integrated thinkingConsultative skills, including clarifying objectives, asking probing questions, suggesting alternative solutions, driving decisionsFlexible and proactive working style with strong personal ownership of project completion

Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, analytical, and project management skills.

About Sapient

Sapient is a global services company that helps clients transform in the areas of business, marketing, and technology. The company operates three divisions that enable clients to gain a competitive advantage and succeed in an increasingly digital world. SapientNitro, Sapient Global Markets, and Sapient Government Services fuse insight, creativity, and technology to drive innovation and to help clients navigate complex business problems. Our approach is the subject of case studies used by MBA programs at Harvard and Yale. The company has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information,visit www.sapient.com .

Sapient is aregistered service mark of Sapient Corporation.

LocationCentral LondonSalaryCompetitive SalaryReference208100Contact NameLavina Lobo

We are Sapient. For over two decades we have been partnering with some of the world’s most recognized brands and organizations, helping them transform their businesses and operations to succeed and thrive in a fast-changing digital world.

We operate three divisions: SapientNitro, Sapient Global Markets, and Sapient Government Services, each with extensive capabilities and expertise to address the particular industries they serve.

But what we all have in common, what each of our 11,000+ team members in 35 offices across the globe share, is an all encompassing drive to do whatever it takes. To overcome any obstacle, to exceed expectations, and create fanatical advocates – within our clients and ourselves. In fact, we’re proud to claim that our unique culture and values are part of case studies being used by MBA programs at Harvard and Yale.

Sapient is looking for individuals who want to make a difference. Our environment fosters growth and creativity, demands openness and client-focused delivery, and celebrates initiative and risk-taking.

If this sounds like you, then we should talk.

Role Purpose

The Senior Manager, Learning Strategy is responsible for the successful design, delivery and management of programs that facilitate continuous learning of people at all levels within the Global Markets Business Unit. He/she will work closely with business leaders, practice leads and people team members to develop a learning approach aligned with the business strategy and based on the thoughtful identification and prioritization of training requirements. This person will focus on leading a learning strategy for a highly mobile, consultative and largely millennial workforce of approximately 4,000 people.

Key Responsibilities:

Learning Strategy (30%)

Create a world class learning strategy that combines multiple delivery vehicles, services and vendorsDesign and develop learning solutions that leverage industry best practices, resonate with key stakeholders and align with the strategic plan of the Business UnitIdentify emerging trends that are impactful, inventive and relevant for a mobile workforce

Vendor Strategy (15%)

Source, evaluate, and negotiate contracts with and manage the performance of outside vendors and/or consultants offering specialized training and development solutionsManage vendor spend and routinely audit vendors to ensure relevance and business impact

Learning Management System Strategy (15%)

Lead the LMS Strategy, which includes evaluating the effectiveness of the current application and the best way to deliver learning solutions to a highly mobile workforceProvide strategic and operational direction to the LMS team owners around best practices, issue resolution and optimal user experience 

Budget Management & Measurement (10%)

Identify success criteria with the business prior to the development of learning solutionsManage the global learning investment / budgetReport on success of learning initiatives to business and HR leadership and tie to business objectivesProject & Team Management (30%)Provide leadership, direction and guidance to a globally distributed team of 6 peopleResolve issues and mentor team in all aspects of their growth and developmentCreate a strong global team environment and be a driver for global standards and quality outcomes 

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree10+ years HR, consulting or learning & development with at least 5 years’ experience in learning3+ years of experience in managing a team

Experience

Self-starter who can develop and execute strategiesExperience in a global, matrixed organization that is ambiguous and fast pacedStrong leadership skills, executive presence and experience working and influencing business leaders to successfully drive initiatives and gain cross-functional commitment and supportStrong business acumen and integrated thinkingConsultative skills, including clarifying objectives, asking probing questions, suggesting alternative solutions, driving decisionsFlexible and proactive working style with strong personal ownership of project completion

Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, analytical, and project management skills.

About Sapient

Sapient is a global services company that helps clients transform in the areas of business, marketing, and technology. The company operates three divisions that enable clients to gain a competitive advantage and succeed in an increasingly digital world. SapientNitro, Sapient Global Markets, and Sapient Government Services fuse insight, creativity, and technology to drive innovation and to help clients navigate complex business problems. Our approach is the subject of case studies used by MBA programs at Harvard and Yale. The company has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information,visit www.sapient.com .

Sapient is aregistered service mark of Sapient Corporation.

Apply now

View the original article here