Learning and development plans are created to help employees enhance their performance and contribute to the organisation’s success. Both employees and employers claim to see the value in learning and development, yet, all too often, development plans are made and never acted on.
We wanted to find out what the biggest barriers were to successful learning and development, and how to overcome them. With the help of Development Dimensions International, we polled 13,000 leaders around the world to find out why learning and development plans fail.
All of our findings have been collected in our Nurture Great Leaders white paper – including some surprising discoveries. We discovered that the barriers to formal learning are almost the exact opposite to those of informal learning. Four of the biggest barriers to learning and development are:
A lack of manager support, feedback and coaching
Insufficient opportunities to apply learning
No direct connection between the learning activity and job performance
Low relevance to business challenges
Interested in improving learning and development at your organisation? Halogen’s learning and development solution includes everything you need to develop a skilled and engaged workforce, including learning activities, manager coaching tools and resources to ensure employee accountability for career development. Find out more about our learning and development solution here and sign up for a free trial of Halogen LearningTM today.