Webinar: Benchmark to boost business bottom line

May 28, 2013 - PRLog -- Those responsible for setting and influencing L&D strategy are under pressure. They need to add value and transform learning to support their organisations. But the world is changing so rapidly - how can they do that effectively, given limited time and resources?

In a bid to support L&D professionals achieve their goals, The Corporate eLearning Consortium has launched a webinar series, with advice and inspiration from leading experts in the field. The series starts on June 14th with a webinar at 11am lead by Laura Overton, the celebrated Learning Technologies expert.

Delegates can register on the webinar by following this link: http://www.corporateelearningconsortium.com/webinars/three-simple-steps-to-boost-your-business-bottom-line-using-learning-technologies/

According to Laura, benchmarking is critical to Learning innovation, and ultimately business success. In the webinar, she’ll be identifying how benchmarking can help improve the take-up of learning technologies, affect management engagement and productivity – and ultimately boost a business’ bottom line.

She’ll be drawing on previous benchmarking input from more than 2,200 organisations - across all sectors, and from around the world - to provide practical advice, hints and tips based on what works. Or, in Laura’s words: “Why re-invent the wheel?”

In a nutshell, benchmarking, says Laura - the MD of Towards Maturity - can help L&D managers to:

Create a sense of urgency – by comparing their approach with the success of others
Be accountable – setting a personal baseline for today to help demonstrate progress tomorrow
Step up to the challenge
Promote change, in the wider context of organisational change - motivate their teams to become industry leaders not followers; provide an external perspective to help engage stakeholders with new ways of learning; and justify an investment for change
Deliver results, faster - increase staff engagement and results; learn from common mistakes rather than making them; set ‘SMART’ targets in their business plan, based on trusted industry metrics
Positively affect their business culture – open learning environments bring speed to change

All of which helps to establish a technology-led Learning culture that contributes to business agility, effective change management and great organisational performance.

Delegates can register on the webinar by following this link: http://www.corporateelearningconsortium.com/webinars/three-simple-steps-to-boost-your-business-bottom-line-using-learning-technologies/

Monthly webinars, designed to give practical support to L&D departments, will follow in the series.

About Laura Overton: Webinar presenter Laura Overton is the MD of Towards Maturity (http://www.towardsmaturity.org/) – a not for profit organisation which provides independent research to help business deliver improved performance through learning innovation. Her work is based on 25+ years of practical experience and research. She’s recognised as being one of the Top Ten most influential people in eLearning in the UK, and her work has been recognised with numerous awards – including the inaugural eLearning age special achievement award in 2012.

About The Corporate eLearning Consortium

Do you want to know what leaders and managers need for top performance? We can help... The Corporate eLearning Consortium specialises in providing the latest technology-led leadership and management resources for maximum performance support. We're passionate about delivering workplace learning to the corporate sector that really works - by putting the needs of leaders and managers first.

Together the Consortium team has vast experience in understanding what works for leaders and managers at all levels - recommending relevant resources that have the greatest impact.

If desktop, mobile or blended learning are on the top of your L&D wish list for 2013, we can help you deliver an effective solution.

We're good at listening and pride ourselves on our high customer satisfaction, supporting them to achieve their goals.

Come and speak to us at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum on June 18, at stand number 21, Olympia 2, London. Or find out more at www.corporateElearningconsortium.com (http://www.corporateelearningconsortium.com/) (http://www)