Strategy | The continuous development conundrum

What drives your approach to continuous development? For some companies, it’s an integral part of legislative compliance specific to their industry or function. Ensuring all staff have the up-to-date knowledge and skills required for their roles is embedded into how the business operates.

For other companies, continuous development approaches are designed to enhance loyalty, nurture talent and future-proof the business. Whichever approach underpins your thinking, getting it right is key.

Keeping on top of continuous development can be labour intensive

Staying abreast of learning and development needs for an entire workforce is hard work for HR managers and L&D leads, especially if doing so involves complex manual systems, endless files, and spreadsheets that have grown more detailed over time. It’s an ongoing process: as new legislation comes into force or industry bodies issue new directives, continuous development approaches must be updated and rolled out. And the personal perspective must be taken into account too as individual employee career aspirations and learning needs are ref.