What is Learning & Development?
L&D is not just about training sessions, and it’s certainly not about sending staff members one by one to training sessions outside the organization. L&D is about building continuous learning opportunities inside the organization, as part of everyday activities.
It is training, workshops and mentoring structures. It is job rotation, coaching, and sparring with a colleague. It is case-based training in real-life situations and various processes and structures built for networking and knowledge sharing. It is data from different systems and its use, as well as competence management, for example through the use of a Learning Management System (LMS). It is the day-to-day work of developing the skills of individual staff members and the performance of the organization.
Much of L&D work is about supporting management, planning effective L&D activities, and implementing learning into the everyday life of the organization.
