L&D | Why you should tie in personal and professional development

More and more staff are telling their employer they want quality learning and development opportunities. For some employees, seeing development pathways in their organisation is more important than being able to work flexibly or get a pay rise.

Despite this demand for development, it isn’t always easy getting buy-in from staff for the L&D offerings you provide. There could be a myriad of reasons for this, but increasingly workforces are suggesting they want experiences that help them develop personally as well as professionally.

This, I believe, is an integral part of the modern L&D experience. Even though the working world is slowly shifting back to what it was like pre-pandemic in many ways, we are still living through a time where meeting employee demands is paramount to business success.

Additionally, because staff generally aren’t as loyal to one employer as they might have been in the past, and younger generations are hopping from job-to-job, the emphasis is placed on not what your employee can do for you, but what you can do for your employee.