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session overview
Business aligned learning
P1: How L&D can lead on business agility
Laura Overton, Managing Director, Towards Maturity
- Readiness: preparing business for change
- Adding value: creating effective business partnerships
- Results: demonstrating impact
- Preparation: Creating an agile L&D function
- Change: 3 things we must do differently in 2012
P2: Learning as a competitive advantage
Nic Laycock
Eskom, the giant South African power utility, is facing massive challenges in expanding rapidly to meet the country’s burgeoning energy needs. To achieve the necessary growth the company needs to attract and retain large numbers of young professionals from many disciplines, especially engineers. In seeking to do this, Eskom faces competition for skills from other sectors of the economy. However its L&D activity, typical of companies in the sector, was traditional and not aligned to the values and practices of a networked and technologically enabled generation. Coupled with this non-alignment, there are additional challenges from the widespread location of plant, communications issues, a lack of sufficient subject matter experts to provide traditional training and coaching.
To meet those challenges, Nic Laycock is assisting Eskom in putting in place a leading edge solution that embraces the full range of technology and the social media, aimed at creating leverage in recruitment, faster time to competence, the development of a new cohort of subject matter experts, and which includes vertical integration with universities.
Join this session to hear what is being done to:
- Move away from the traditional ‘push’ training department
- Integrate learning, knowledge and performance
- Choose and leverage the right performance tools
- Go beyond knowledge to performance enhancement
- Transform training into learning and performance improvement even in a conservative environment
- Break new ground in the creation of a totally virtual university



























