Continuous Learning Improvement Suite
Tiger Woods Knows What It Takes to be Great,
Do you?
Two prominent authors - Geoff Colvin (Talent Is Overrated) and Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers) - argue that the path to success offers few alternatives to hard work and practice.
New CorpU research suggests that great training practices correlate to important metrics like profitability and stock price. That means if you improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the training function, there's a good chance those improvements will also show up as improved business results.
It's easy to understand how Tiger Woods practices relentlessly to improve his golf swing, but how should a Training Function pursue perfection?
LEARN HOW TO CALCULATE YOUR EEI
(Efficiency and Effectiveness Index)
4 Steps to Improvement
- Assess: gather evidence about the practices you should follow to decide how to invest the enterprise training budget (Effectiveness) and the operational factors that maximize the value of each dollar spent (Efficiency).
- Benchmark: compare your programs against top performers and industry benchmarks as a baseline for your own improvement plan.
- Analyze Gaps: find weaknesses in current programs, looking deeply into true success factors, to ensure you haven’t just “checked a box” and missed what’s most important.
- Build A Prioritized Improvement Plan: you can’t improve everything all at once. Determine which improvements will provide the most immediate bang-for-the-buck, and those considered “low hanging fruit," requiring little time or effort but contributing important benefits.
CorpU's Continuous Learning Improvement (CLI) research shows early evidence that companies who continually improve the Effectiveness and Efficiency of training processes also achieve higher Profitability and improved appreciation in their stock prices.
That's about as good as it gets in terms of proving your value to the business.
How Can We Find Our Effectiveness and Efficiency Index?
You can sign up now to complete our free CLI assessment, and see how your Effectiveness and Efficiency Index (EEI) compares to others. We'll also show you how that becomes your jumping point to adapt best practice processes, and to move your team to top quartile performance. If you're ready now, click the start button at the top of this page.
What Does It Take To Complete the Assessment?
Nothing Worthwhile Is Easy. The full CLI Assessment is rigorous. It spans 12 dimensions of Learning and Development that are grouped into the four quadrants:
- Align
- Organize
- Execute
- Measure
You can complete the full assessment of more than 100 questions related to your current practices, or start with questions in one or two quadrants.
An assessment of your practices at the enterprise level is free. We can allow you to conduct and compare assessments for each of your business unites or functional learning groups for an additional fee.
What Will We Get From This Effort?
Once you complete the CLI Assessment, you'll gain access to a series of performance maps** (see below) showing how your current practices fall within performance quartiles. These highly visual maps help you immediately spot areas where your programs need improvement.
In the example below, Company A shows that it employs excellent practices to monitor and build the strategic workforce capabilities required by the business strategy while this same activity is a real weakness in Company B. On the other hand, Company B leverages an integrated, enterprise technology platform, while technology is a weakness for Company A. With performance maps in hand, training teams can develop an effective and prioritize plan for improvement.
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Additional Benefits for CorpU Members
Any company can complete the CLI Assessment, view their performance maps, and check their score of each individual question against best practices. CorpU Members receive additional scoring reports and recommendations for improvement, and can follow up using CorpU tools - such as Portfolio Management, Capacity Planning, and the Governance Toolkit - to drive their improvement plans.
**Performance maps are generated through a scoring algorithm that compares your work against the best practices of award-winning organizations. Award-winning practices have been determined over a 10-year program with independent panels of industry experts.
