Corporate Learning and Development is unregulated
"If you do not understand your role on the problem, it is difficult to be part of the solution." David Peter Stroh Internal corporate Learning and Development teams and their vendor partners are wholly unregulated. (The 'L&D' industry awards Ponzi Scheme and paid up front, 'accreditation' deals don't count). The systemic lack of impact, enablement, and measurement in the 'L&D' industry stems from this lack of a central 'code of practice'. So, unregulated internal 'L&D' teams (often made up of ex-classroom trainers, 'HR generalists', project managers and e-learning designers) rely on external vendors (who are incentivised to serve up the expected, familiar diet of digital long-form communication). The passive acceptance of 'action' (i.e. course attendance / completion) and 'reaction' ('liked' or 'enjoyed the experience') as the only indicators of 'impact' means that sub-sta...