LearningGovernance.com
What is it? That’s pretty straightforward. Governance is a discipline that comes out of change management strategy and we've added to if specific steps to serve learning organizations. It is a system of decision-making structures, processes, practices and values that enable an organization to make good and actionable decisions about all things learning, enterprise-wide. Note, technology is only part of this.
How can we implement it? This gets more complex. Historically, learning teams have been scattered across different parts of the organization. This leads to fragmented decision-making, duplication of effort and inability to achieve economies of scale with greater enterprise support. This is where the Learning Governance Lifecycle™ model and methodology come in. It’s designed to help learning teams achieve greater alignment, build more consensus and get greater support by improving structures, decision-making frameworks, and resource allocation with cooperation from many different stakeholders. It then, provides templates, guidelines, tools and working examples to help teams adopt ‘best practices’ and optimize business processes to better serve many more users. (For a list of specific governance service offerings look further down this page.)
How will it help our organization? Effective governance is critical if learning organizations are going to grow out their historic silos and help the enterprise become more adaptive, flexible, and competitive. The need for governance may be precipitated by several circumstances; an expanded charter for learning; new systems upgrade; a merger or acquisition (M&A) – sometimes a combination of the above.
Exploring Governance can also help drive an expansion in charter, gain support behind new resource investments, and generally raise the visibility and strategic value of the learning team overall.
Why LearningGovernance.com?
Let’s face it, everybody has a ‘day job.’ Time is always a factor and building an effective governance model with supporting processes that are widely adopted is not simply for the asking.
That’s where we come in. We bring working frameworks, tools and guidelines to help establish better Governance and stewardship practices in the organization. The Learning Governance Lifecycle model is one of the proven change management methodologies that has been tailored specifically to help learning teams build consensus and support for more rapid adoption of learning processes across the company. The methodology is based on viewing learning operations through the eyes of stakeholders – as if they were your 'customers' – across a lifecycle of learning processes needed to plan and implement learning on an enterprise scale, as illustrated below.
Illustration – Sample Five Stage Learning Governance Lifecycle model
Our Services
For an update on our services, please see www.razorlearning.com. We help facilitate the process by working with you to review current structures or processes, refine critical roles and responsibilities, share tools, templates, guidelines and examples of ‘best practices’ that have worked in other organizations and help you create a governance framework that will work best for you and your organization. Below are some examples that may fit your needs.
- One-day Onsite ‘Mini’ Governance Workshop – This service is intended to introduce ‘best practices’ for learning governance with members of your learning organization and/or other company stakeholders who need to work effectively with the learning team. We look at the issues that affect governance in organizations – using an established governance framework we have developed for this purpose – and study processes and ‘best practices’ that work as well as examine where things typically go awry.
- Establishing ‘Best Practices’ and Optimizing Governance Processes – This is a focused learning governance workshop and service engagement designed to have the greatest impact with a diverse group of stakeholders. We work with you to identify issues and opportunities in your organization then plan and facilitate a 1.5 – 2-day workshop with a group of stakeholders to elicit their input and gain their commitment. We use the Learning Governance Lifecycle™ model and methodology to systematically work through each stage of the lifecycle process, review the activities that need to get accomplished for each stage, identify issues and respond to questions (sharing examples of ‘best practices’ for highly effective and efficient learning processes used in other organizations as needed), and gain agreement on how roles, responsibilities and process flows could be refined to work best for your organization.
A key deliverable for this engagement is a Learning Governance Management Guide tailored specific to your organization. It outlines the agreed to plan and includes updated workflow processes, supporting tools, guidelines and checklists and other ‘best practices’ that help stakeholders complete each lifecycle stage so that learning operations go much more smoothly. The guide becomes an ongoing ‘living’ document to share with other stakeholders and be updated over time as new capabilities, resources or technologies are added.
