Business View Magazine | April/May 2022

169 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4 learning, e-learning, blended learning, face-to- face online learning, onsite training – allow them not only to offer the best courses, matching each employee’s learning preferences and needs, but also to make sure their clients optimize their budget and maximize ROI on a global scale. Additionally, they are also adapting to local specificities and legislations thanks to a truly global footprint and knowledgeable local teams. Confidently looking at the future of L&D Today more than ever, the well-being and personal development of employees are prime concerns, as evidenced by the Great Resignation. Learning and Development is one of the main levers to help people thrive in the workplace and advance their careers. As a company strongly established in the business education industry, Learnship has not only helped individuals learn new languages and seize new opportunities. It has supported diversity and inclusion by giving a voice to everyone and shattering cultural barriers – to the benefit of both employees and organizations. All major trends are heading in favor of Learnship: globalization, education, digitization, diversity & inclusion. Given these topics on CEO and company agendas, Learnship seems to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right products. With lockdowns and COVID, the world realized remote working is the future. Everybody can collaborate, as long as they have a connection and the ability to talk to each other. Thus, digital education is one of the key essentials. And Learnship offers a mature technology to support digital transformation within organizations – and companies’ need for innovation, efficiency, diversity and inclusion. Defining three key areas of focus for the future Learnship is already serving more than 25% of the Fortune 500 globally. The objective is now to increase the reach and train ever more people within the next three years, with a focus on three LEARNSHI P main regions: APAC, the Americas, and EMEA. To do so, the company defined three areas of focus: • Intensify talent recruitment and development: Learnship needs all the creative talent and energy to democratize education and bring it to the next level. With a rapid growth resulting from the strong interest in digital business education solutions over the past two years, Learnship is in an intensive recruitment phase. Recruiting new, diverse talent in IT development, content development, Sales, and advance their existing workforce is the first challenge. • New learning options in line with changing needs: as society has evolved over the past years giving employees new challenges, the company is creating brand new products and content in line with learners’ changing work settings and fragmented schedules. One of their main undertakings is Precision Learning, a bite-sized learning option focusing on new business needs such as remote networking skills or remote project management. Their content development roadmap currently covers over 25 new programs by the end of 2023. • Technologies for the sake of clients’ ROI: The main pain point with soft skills such as language or cross-cultural training is the difficulty for learners and companies to assess competencies. Learnship has reached a point where satisfaction on a declarative basis is no longer enough. Working closely with IT and product development departments, the company is developing a new platform – Halo – through which learners will be constantly tested, and performance precisely tracked, so Learnship can deliver proof of language level, with detailed can-do statements.