Has Covid changed everything? Or will we just go back to normal? And what are the implications for learning and development professionals? Is face-to-face classroom learning a thing of the past? Is online the future? What’s the ‘new normal’?

These are tricky questions and no-one has a monopoly on the answers, so we’ve invited 30,000 L&D and HR professionals to complete a survey to tell us what they think.

In this free interactive session, we will share the survey results and discuss the implications. This is an ideal opportunity to hear from your peers, learn what other organisations are doing, and gauge where your response to the situation puts you in relation to current notions of best practice.

It’s also a chance to ask questions of your peers and of our panel of experts:

• Cyrus Cooper (Managing Director, Maximum Performance)

• Elizabeth Crosse (Practice Lead, Maximum Coaching)

• Amanda Dudman (Practice Lead, Public service / VCSE sectors)

What’s in it for you?

Find out:

• How organisations have been affected by the pandemic

• What’s happened to their L&D budgets

• As social distancing and other restrictions start being eased, what people’s main L&D challenges and priorities are, right now

• When – or whether – physical classroom-based learning activities will come back

• What people have been doing instead of classroom sessions

• What’s been the experience with virtual

• Which platforms people are using

• How L&D needs are changing as a result of the pandemic

• What your peers think of the future of learning technologies … of coaching … of mentoring … of 70:20:10 … in the ‘new normal’

Hear what L&D and HR professionals across the country think of these and other issues, what they’re prioritising, what they’re thinking the ‘new normal’ will look like. Share experiences, ask questions. Be part of the conversation!

Who can attend?

This session is designed for all L&D professionals (and HR professionals responsible for, or with a special interest in, L&D) regardless of sector or geography.

Agenda

10.00 – 11.00

We envisage a free-flowing discussion. Cyrus will kick off with an overview of the survey results, Amanda will address them from a public service perspective and Elizabeth will say a few words about the findings around coaching before we open the discussion up more widely.

Free registration

This session is completely free of charge – just make sure you book well in advance to get the ‘joining instructions’ (including a link to the Zoom webinar platform) and to be sure of a place. Click 'Add to calendar' above and then click the green ‘Register’ button, above.

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