UK Training Industry Press Releases

The conclusive report to be published at Learning Technologies 2010.

Market-leading online toolkit provider GoodPractice recently commissioned ComRes[1] to conduct a survey of leaders and managers across a range of organisations in November 2009. Over two hundred leaders and managers participated in the research. The survey findings will be published at this year's Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibition, 27-28^th January, London Olympia.   

Many studies produced about the learning activity in organisations are based on questions put to HR and L&D professionals rather than the learners themselves. GoodPractice has observed, on numerous occasions, that the perceptions of HR and L&D departments can differ quite significantly from the perceptions of managers. Hence they wanted to conduct a survey that went straight to the customers of HR and L&D departments.

How managers learn (in their own words) emphasises that the frequency and perceived effectiveness of informal learning activities suggests that learning and development professionals need to rethink their mental model of the learning and performance landscape, and they need to give informal learning a central role in their strategy. However, the findings also accentuate that there are significant differences in the learning habits of managers across different age groups, and there is not a definitive one-size-fits-all solution.