Learning Strategy and Design

Attain business goals and improve performance by leveraging your people’s ability to generate exceptional outcomes

We focus on outcomes, not processes; on learning, not just teaching. By analyzing the gaps and triggers that cause your performance gaps, we design original learning solutions to help address the human contribution to that gap.

1. Discovery

Business needs and outcomes

We work with your leadership to identify the business needs or triggers behind the request. Combined with the “Discovery and Training Needs Analysis”, this becomes the compass of the learning design.

Training Needs Analysis

We conduct interviews, collect relevant data and – if necessary – conduct our own research to uncover their goals, needs, priorities, challenges and roadblocks and identify the real training needs of your people.

Program objectives

We clarify the desired outcome of the program, which is anchored to the business need or trigger. 

Prior Learning Review

We review existing assets and prior learning engagements (workshops, training, certifications, on-the-job training, etc) in order to leverage what already works and avoid redundancies in our learning design.

Challenges and Roadblocks

Equipped with the insights from the discovery phase, we surface potential roadblocks that may hinder people’s ability to learn and apply knowledge, so our learning design is grounded on reality and serves the people and the business goal.

Learning Impact Metrics

We design with you the KPIs that will help us measure the progress towards achieving the intended outcome.

Learning engagement logistics

We collect the logistical details (ie. duration, number of participants, etc) that will inform the program design.

Learning engagement logistics

We collect the logistical details (ie. duration, number of participants, etc) that will inform the program design.

2. Learning Experience Design

Learning Impact Mapping

We align the end goal with the learning engagements that will help learners achieve it.

Learning storyboarding

Having mapped exactly the outcome and the way to achieve that, we then go and design the storyboard of the learning engagements.

Learning Reinforcement

We design learning engagements to reinforce learning. Spread out across multiple weeks, we keep learners focused, engaged and accountable so they own their learning, change and apply newly acquired knowledge, abilities, mindsets and behaviours. Each client and case are different, so we adapt the technology and methods to match the learning goals, learner personas and overall learning experience design to ensure that learning has a meaningful impact – on learners and on the intended business outcomes.  

Learning Experience Design (LXD)

All the above come together into a cohesive LXD plan, designing the entire learning experience before hand. Knowling the business goals, the training needs and learning goals, and the learner personas we then design the learning experience for each persona and/or role. This includes a high-level visualization of the learning engagements and touch-points from start to end. These may be role specific, personal specific, or outcome driven.

3. Engage Managers

Managers' accountabilities

Individual Development

Leverage challenges & change

Modelling

4. Build buy-in

Sell the benefits / WIIFM

Relevance and context

Co-creation

5. Delivery

We deliver the core learning experience, which is usually in the form of an in-person workshop (1-3 days). 

6. Learning Reinforcement

We stay with your people for 3-12 months, helping them own and apply the newly acquired knowledge. Our Learning Reinforcement may include:

nudges & microlearning, coaching, refresher sessions, eLearning / virtual courses, self-assessments, commitment tracking, peer learning & accountability teams

7. Check-ins

Regular check-ins; feedback; facilitated meetings (coach, learner, manager); performance reviews; performance conversations; skills-audit; team feedback/360 reviews

8. Organizational Alignment

We align the learning engagement to the Employee Value Proposition, embedding learning in the participants’ roles. This alignment includes:

Rewards & Recognitions, Career Development, Performance reviews, Performance conversations, Personal Development Plan, Manager engagement

9. Evaluation

Using the learning impact KPIs we assess the impact of the program in terms of learning experience,  learning outcomes and goal attainment. 

  • learning experience (ie. participation and completion stats, learning delivery satisfaction)
  • learning impact – to what extent people actually changed their ways as an outcome of their participation in the learning engagement.
  • progress towards goal attainment

10. Celebration

At the end of each learning milestone we celebrate the journey. People share their experience, their challenges and successes. This helps bond the learners, sets the foundation for future learning engagements and cultivates a learning culture. Not to mention it is fun