Whitepaper: Break through the biggest barriers to learning and development”

Learning and development plans are created to help employees enhance their performance and contribute to the organisation’s success. Both employees and employers claim to see the value in learning and development, yet all too often, development plans are made and never acted on.

We wanted to find out what the biggest barriers were to successful learning and development, and how to overcome them. With the help of Development Dimensions International (DDI), we polled 13,000 leaders around the world to find out why learning and development plans failed.

All of our findings have been collected in our Nurture Great Leaders  white paper – including some surprising discoveries. We found out that the barriers to formal learning are almost the exact opposite to those of informal learning. Four of the biggest barriers to learning and development include: