Running Learning as a Business
Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica,
1st - 3rd June 2026
- A Comprehensive and Highly Interactive Workshop Designed to Help You Manage Training with Maximum Impact
Transform your current L&D function into a true, strategic business partner with visible impact on your organization’s success. Don’t settle for being an order taker or provider of compliance training when there is so much more value you can add. Maximize your impact with a strategic focus and by doing a better job planning, executing, and measuring important programs.
This workshop prepares you to do all this and more, including how to measure your results. Participants will identify and share strategic learning programs for their own organization, learning from each other. Then each participant will create and share a business case for one of their programs, just as if they were pitching it to their CFO or CEO.
This workshop will combine intensive training on all aspects of running learning like a business with lots of discussion and practice, as participants apply what they have learned to their own organization.
Participants will leave with draft tables of strategic learning, draft business cases, a draft plan outline, and a draft measurement strategy for their own organization.
Key Benefits of Running Learning as a Business
- Focus on the learning that matters most to your organization
- Become a strategic business partner
- Speak the language of business
- Make a convincing business case for investment in your programs
- Clearly demonstrate the value of your work
- Measure what is most important
- Create and use management reports to deliver planned results and increase your credibility
- Increase your annual budget and staffing
- Founder and Former President of Caterpillar University, USA
- Former Executive Director of the Center for Talent Reporting, USA
- Named Chief Learning Officer of the Year by Chief Learning Officer magazine
Learning Objectives
- Articulate the different types of learning and construct a portfolio of learning
- Create a strategic alignment table
- Plan a program carefully, including targets for all key measures
- Determine the cost of a program
- Make a convincing business case for a program and for the department as a whole
- Manage a program with discipline using management reports
- Articulate the different types of measures and reports
- Select appropriate measures and reports
- Create a measurement strategy
- Make a business plan for learning
Pre-course Questionnaire
A pre-course questionnaire will be sent to you upon your registration which will allows you to raise your specific areas of interest. The trainer will review and analyze these in advance and address them during the workshops, seeking to fully satisfy your learning needs.
Certificate of Achievement
Upon the successful completion of this course, you will receive a Certificate of Achievement bearing the signatures from both the Trainer and the Organizer. This Certificate will testify your endeavour and serve towards your professional advancement.
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 3100 0278
Day 1: The Types of Learning, Strategic Learning and Program Planning
Exercises
- Create your optimum portfolio mix for learning
- Identify your organization’s high-level goals
- Identify and align learning to your organization’s goals
Take-Aways
- Optimum portfolio mix for your organization
- Strategic alignment table for your organization
- List of other key learning programs for your organization
Day 2: Measurement and Planning Learning Programs
Exercises
- Create a carefully planned program
- Identify roles and responsibilities for the same program
- Create a measurement matrix for your L&D department
Take-Aways
- Fully planned key program for your organization
- Targets for key program measures for your organization
- Measurement matrix for your organization
- Roles and responsibilities for a key program for your organization
- List of key program success factors for your organization
Day 3: The Business Case and Program Execution
Exercises
- Calculate the costs for a key program
- Build a business case for the same key program
- Create a reporting matrix
Take-Aways
- Cost calculation for a key program for your organization
- Business case for a key program for your organization
- Reporting matrix for your organization
- Business plan outline for your organization
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 3100 0278
- Founder and Former President of Caterpillar University, USA
- Former Executive Director of the Center for Talent Reporting, USA
- Named Chief Learning Officer of the Year by Chief Learning Officer magazine
With over 25 years of practical experience in the L&D field and another 12 years as an economist, Dave is uniquely positioned to help you learn.
Dave is recognized as an industry leader for L&D strategy and measurement. He is the former President of Caterpillar University, which he founded in 2001. He was named CLO of the Year in 2006 by Chief Learning Officer magazine. He also founded the nonprofit Center for Talent Reporting in 2012 dedicated to improving the management and measurement of L&D which led to the creation of the Talent Development Reporting principles (TDRp) for L&D and HR.
He is the author of The Business of Learning: How to Manage Corporate Training to Improve Your Bottom Line (Second Edition) published in 2017 and the co-author with Peggy Parskey of Measurement Demystified: Creating Your Measurement, Analytics, and Reporting Strategy (2021) and its companion Measurement Demystified Field Guide (2022).
He teaches in the Human Capital management Ph.D. program at Bellevue University and in the CLO Executive Education program at George Mason University. He also led the team that created the first, comprehensive International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard on L&D metrics.
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 3100 0278
- VPs or Managers of HR or Training
- Chief Learning Officers
- Learning directors and program managers
- Anyone aspiring to leadership positions in HR or learning
- Measurement and data analysts
- Anyone involved with HR or learning strategy
- Consultants and vendors in the HR or learning fields
Most learning organizations today are reactive. They take orders for learning, do not align their learning to the organization’s goals, do not form strategic partnerships with goal owners, do not set targets for their learning program’s success, do not actively manage key programs to deliver planned results, and do not clearly demonstrate value. In sum, they don’t run learning like a business. We can do better.
Transform your current L&D function into a true, strategic business partner with visible impact on your organization’s success. Don’t settle for being an order taker or provider of compliance training when there is so much more value you can add. Maximize your impact with a strategic focus and by doing a better job planning, executing, and measuring important programs.
This workshop prepares you to do all this and more, including how to measure your results. Participants will identify and share strategic learning programs for their own organization, learning from each other. Then each participant will create and share a business case for one of their programs, just as if they were pitching it to their CFO or CEO.
This workshop will give you the knowledge and confidence to be a much better and smarter L&D professional, one who can speak the language of business and deliver results understood by your CFO. It is time for you to make an impression.
Participants can look forward to learning about the:
- Role of strategic learning in helping an organization accomplish its goals
- Difference between strategic and operational learning and why both are important
- Optimum portfolio or mix of learning for an organization
- Critical role of need analysis and performance consulting
- Roles and responsibilities for organizational goal owners and the L&D department
- Critical success factors for application and impact
- Creation of a business case for a learning program
- Creation of a business case for the entire L&D department
- Creation of a business plan for learning
- Disciplined execution of a plan for learning, including the types of reports that are required
- Measurement of learning, including the 2023 ISO standard for L&D metrics
- Role of governing boards
Pre-course Questionnaire
A pre-course questionnaire will be sent to you upon your registration which will allows you to raise your specific areas of interest. The trainer will review and analyze these in advance and address them during the workshops, seeking to fully satisfy your learning needs.
Certificate of Achievement
Upon the successful completion of this course, you will receive a Certificate of Achievement bearing the signatures from both the Trainer and the Organizer. This Certificate will testify your endeavour and serve towards your professional advancement.
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 3100 0278
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For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 3100 0278
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Jamaica Pegasus Hotel
81 Knutsford Boulevard, Kingston 5
Jamaica
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