Creating a Learning and Development Strategy: The HR Business Partner's Guide to Developing People [Paperback]

Without a doubt, the eight chapters and two appendices contain a great deal of useful information for the HRD professional.

If your learning and development programme isn't intimately linked with your organisation's business strategy, you are not adding value. Worse, you are actively destroying it. If you can't show line managers how your training programmes will help their teams meet their objectives, what chance do you have that they will take you seriously? Obviously, you want employees who can meet the needs of your organisation. You want senior management to ask your opinion. You want your people development programme to make a difference. To do this, you need to be able to create and implement a learning and development strategy that is aligned to your business strategy. You need to be able to make the case for investment. You need to be able to show that you can deliver results.

This book aims to help the HR Development professional be a true business partner, supporting the goals of their organisation through focused learning. It provides a systematic model to cover the external and internal factors that drive a learning portfolio, and at the same time looks at the choices needed in processes and tools, in marketing and communication, and in tracking return on investment.

Andrew Mayo

Andrew Mayo is a consultant, speaker, writer and facilitator in international human resources management, with a specialism in people and organisation development. He worked for nearly thirty years in major international organisations, leaving his last post as Director of Human Resource Development for the ICL Group in October 1995. Previous to this appointment, he was for six years Director of HR for ICL International, covering 60 countries.

He holds degrees in Chemical Engineering and Management Science. His career started with Procter and Gamble, and has included general management, marketing and HR positions in the chemical and high-tech industries.

Andrew is Associate Professor of Human Capital Management at Middlesex Business School where he teaches HR Strategy. He is also a Fellow and Programme Director for in-company programmes at the Centre for Management Development at London Business School, where he has worked since 1996. He is a founder member of Careers Research Forum Ltd. He runs his own consultancy company, MLI Ltd (Mayo Learning International), specialising in organisational strategies for growing human capital and translating the rhetoric of "people are our most important assets" into reality. The company has worked extensively in both private and public sectors.

Andrew is the author of five books - "Managing Careers - Strategies for Organisations" (1991) and (with Elizabeth Lank) "The Power of Learning" (1994), "Creating a Training and Development Strategy" (1998), "The Human Value of the Enterprise – Valuing People as Assets" (2001), and "Return on HR Investment" (2004) – plus many articles.

He can be contacted at andrew.mayo@mayolearning.com