Certificate in Strategic L&D

Introduction to Strategic Learning

First you’ll cover the different Learning and Development roles and the challenges that can face you in your career. You’ll also complete a skills assessment and your first assignment will focus on strategic learning.

Developing a Learning Strategy

This module looks at the different frameworks for developing a learning strategy and how to present it to your senior leaders. This includes analysing a case study to test if your learning strategy would work.

Managing Learning Programmes

Managing an existing learning programme with multiple courses, and audiences – has a range of skills attached. This module covers all aspects of learning measurement and management including analysis of different case studies.

Building a Learning Culture

You can have the best learning programmes in place but may still find the L&D team have to drive learning. Building a Learning Culture focuses on how to change that to embed learning and engage your business.

Leadership Capability

One of the key areas many L&D and OD professionals are responsible for is building leadership capability across an organisation, and often at different leadership levels. This module covers different models and tools and real life examples.

Leading Change

Whether it’s a new LMS, or new learning programmes, or development planning – this module covers the different models you can use to lead a change initiative to make sure it’s successful.

Engaging your Managers (and learners)

You might have the best learning programmes in the world, but they’re meaningless if you can’t get managers and employees engaged in learning! This module covers tools to engage your learners.

Learning Metrics and Analytics

Knowing what to measure as part of your training ROI (return on investment) and how to take these metrics into being predictive analytics, can be essential to getting your learning programmes signed off and to check they are effective. This module covers how.

OD Models and Tools

There are a number of organisational development models and tools that are useful for L&D professionals to know and use. This module covers what they are, and how to use them for different parts of your HR, L&D or OD processes.

Business Acumen

This module covers the 4 key elements to having great business acumen. Financial understanding and then legal, industry and commercial knowledge (FLIC). You’ll learn how you can upskill each to build credibility with senior leaders.

OD Psychology 101

There are a number of Industrial Organisational (IO) Psychology principles that are useful for anyone working in learning to understand. Using key methodology and practises mean you can put in place solutions that address the root cause of issues.

Fundamentals module

If this is an area of the Certificate in Learning Fundamentals that you feel you haven’t got enough training or experience in, you can choose one of those as one of your optional modules.