Here are the results of over 1,000 responses from the survey about current and short-term future L&D priorities. The cells where the most responses were received are shaded so that you can see the most popular responses.
Current priorities
| NONE of the time |
SOME of the time |
A LOT of the time |
ALL the time |
Priority level |
|
| Creating online courses and resources | 16% | 47% | 34% | 3% | 1 |
| Designing & delivering classroom training | 23% | 47% | 27% | 3% | 2 |
| Curating content and web opportunities | 25% | 46% | 23% | 6% | 3 |
| Supporting knowledge sharing in teams and groups | 30% | 40% | 24% | 6% | 4 |
| Helping managers grow and develop their own people | 33% | 40% | 23% | 4% | 5 |
| Helping individuals become independent continuous learners | 34% | 40% | 20% | 6% | 6 |
| Helping individuals learn from their daily work | 36% | 37% | 23% | 4% | 7 |
| Running live virtual training sessions | 57% | 31% | 11% | 1% | 8 |
These results show that traditional training and content development is still the main priority focus of L&D departments – with No 1 priority being creating online courses and resources. But what about future priorities?
Short-term future priorities
| NONE of the time |
SOME of the time |
A LOT of the time |
ALL the time |
Priority level |
|
| Helping individuals become independent continuous learners | 1% | 11% | 51% | 37% | 1 |
| Helping individuals learn from their daily work | 2% | 13% | 54% | 31% | 2 |
| Supporting knowledge sharing in teams and groups | 3% | 13% | 56% | 28% | 3 |
| Helping managers grow and develop their own people | 6% | 16% | 52% | 26% | 4 |
| Curating content and web opportunities | 8% | 35% | 47% | 10% | 5 |
| Creating online courses and resources | 13% | 51% | 30% | 6% | 6 |
| Running webinars and online training sessions | 26% | 58% | 23% | 3% | 7 |
| Designing & delivering classroom training | 28% | 62% | 9% | 1% | 8 |
What these results show is that L&D respondents would like, in the near future to spend
- LESS time on designing and delivering classroom training, and creating content and online courses,
- MORE time on curating content and web opportunities, helping managers develop their teams AND helping individuals learn from daily work AND supporting knowledge sharing
- with the MOST significant increase in time being spent at helping individuals becoming independent continuous learners – which becomes the No 1 short-term future priority.
There is therefore a clear desire to move forward from designing, delivering and managing training to enabling and supporting learning in many other ways across the organisation.
Last updated: January 25, 2020 at 11:39 am