1.
KPMG’s Learning Academy to help organisations upskill for
future.
The Learning Academy brings together the breadth and depth of
KPMG’s subject matter expertise with its learning design and technology skills
and capabilities.
KPMG India
recently launched the Learning Academy with an endeavour to deliver a range of
off-the-shelf digital, blended, and classroom courses on a wide range of subjects,
delivered through its secure and accessible online platform. The Learning
Academy brings together the breadth and depth of KPMG’s subject matter
expertise with its learning design and technology skills and capabilities.
The Academy
will work with organisations across five areas—learning strategy and
transformation, learning programme management, lanaged learning services:
learning design and development, learning branding and communication; and
lastly, learning infrastructure.
Established
on April 1, 2016, the academy was formally launched in the market on February
20, 2017 in New Delhi NCR and plans for a launch in Mumbai on March 7. Through
the initiative, the company is looking to deliver 90+ learning programmes
across five broad clusters—finance, leadership, management and people;
forensic, risk, governance and compliance; performance, process, service and
quality; and digital and technology.
2.
New-age learning: Are we ready?
Agile, on-the-go learning needs of
the modern learner are pushing organisations to rethink their learning
strategy, but are organisations really prepared to take the plunge?
Present-day
organisations have been investing hugely in reforming learning initiatives to
suit the modern learner. While the agile, on-the-go learning needs of the
modern learner are pushing organisations to rethink their learning strategy,
not all organisations seem really prepared to take the plunge. Another concern
is, whether the working population or the modern learner, is ready enough to
embrace these contemporary learning methods.
May
be yes, but not completely. This means there are gaps—both on the
organisational front and at the learners’ level— that need to be addressed
carefully. It has now become even more crucial for learning professionals to
analyse and understand the underlying gaps in adopting new-age learning
techniques. The first and the foremost gap that needs bridging is the
perception about the modern learner, especially in the Indian context.
We,
the current working population, have been brought up in an environment where
there were no facilitators, but only teachers. We were taught, not enabled to
independently learn. We attended hour-long lectures on various subjects, taking
back stipulated homework, day after day, until we threw it all up in an examination
that was far from practical learning. On the other hand, the dynamic workplaces
today, treat learning very differently.
3.
How
technology drives the self-developing organisation
A self-developing organisation requires
a unified approach and some smart technology to enable employees to seamlessly
follow their growth paths.
Organisations
need meticulous efforts to remain sustainable and self-developing in this VUCA
world. An organisation that empowers its people to take control of their own
development and career paths is a self-developing organisation in the true
sense. However, this is easier said than done: it requires a unified approach
and smart technology to enable employees to easily find and progress along
their paths for growth.
With
the present-day workforce comprising mostly millennials, who value learning
opportunities, it becomes more important for firms to adopt the practices of
the self-developing organisation. It just requires organisations to create an
open environment where learning and empowerment opportunities are easily
available to anyone.
Only by leveraging an
efficient technology solution can employers provide staff the right kind of
environment to learn and grow independently. To create a self-developing
organisation, firms must help employees understand their current capabilities
as well as the skills required for future advancement. This means companies
need to provide actionable information to workers through accessible platforms,
so that staffs are aware of what they need to accomplish and what skills and
capabilities they need to build to successfully meet their goals.
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