Strategy

Create Your L&D Strategy

Co-create a compelling learning strategy to help your organisation build agility for an evolving world.

Building Agility: Co-Create a Compelling Learning Strategy for an Evolving World

Adopt this tried and tested approach to co-create a strategy that truly taps into the different motivations of your stakeholders and fosters constant learning.

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Increase Business Impact

Ensure learning is fully aligned with business goals and priorities.

Build Agility

Empower your people to reskill quickly to meet shifting needs and upskill to future-proof your organisation.

Gain Momentum

Whether your transformation has slowed, stalled or not yet begun, it’s time to plan your next steps to build your L&D strategy - with expert support.

L&D Strategy Builder™ brings you years of global expertise of L&D professionals, who have experience working with a multitude of industries. Accompanying our expert coaching is an easy-to-use toolkit to help you complete this robust end-to-end process.

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High Impact Learning Starts With Strategy

During the pandemic, L&D became more central, strategic, cross-functional – and overworked. L&D is under tremendous pressure to help solve bigger organisational programs while keeping up with the pace of change.

How do you ensure that your workforce is job-ready and can perform in a safe and compliant manner?
How do you enable upskilling and reskilling at the pace of change?
How do you build the thriving learning culture you need to create organisational agility?
How do you best use technology to meet your needs?
How can you maximise your time, budget, and resources to ensure business impact?
How do you move beyond the constraints of your own team’s experience and view of their role?
How do you overcome traditional mindsets and resistance to change across your organisation?

Whatever challenges you’re facing, you need a compelling learning strategy that engages your people in constant learning, ensuring that your organisation has the resilience and agility to adapt to change.

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Develop Your Strategy with L&D Strategy Builder™

L&D Strategy Builder™ by Learning Uncut is a robust end-to-end process to develop, implement and sustain your L&D strategy. Receive expert coaching using a human-centred, evidence informed approach that is supported by playbooks, tools and templates.

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Evaluate the current state of your organisational learning using internal data and best practice insights from external research and case studies

Gain buy-in as you engage key stakeholders to co-create and implement your strategy

Follow a continuous improvement process to evaluate, sustain, and evolve your strategy over time so it remains relevant and effective

Process

Our Process

L&D Strategy Builder™ process is divided into four stages that provide a structured process to design and implement your learning strategy. It’s a reliable approach to create a strategy that increases the impact of learning and helps build agility in your organisation.

8-10 weeks

1. Diagnose

Conduct internal and external research to understand your industry context, business strategy, current state of learning in the organisation and benchmark L&D practices.

5-6 weeks

2. Strategise

Identify the Value Proposition for learning that resonates with your stakeholders and use it to develop a learning strategy that meets their needs and engages them.

4 weeks

3. Implement

Test and refine your strategy to make sure that it is desirable, and sustainable. Once you’ve honed your strategy, develop a sustainable action plan.

Ongoing

4. Sustain

Consistently evaluate your strategy it against your Success Metrics and use that feedback to evolve your action plan. Monitor shifts in your organisational strategy and context, ensuring that your learning strategy remains aligned with your organisation’s goals and relevant to stakeholders.

What's included

L&D Strategy Builder Inclusions

Expert coaching from Diagnose to Implement stage

Reviews and feedback on all your work and strategy assets

Playbook containing practical, robust processes

30+ customisable tools and templates

Case studies and research that bring the outside in

Quarterly review during Sustain stage

Events

Upcoming Events

Want to learn more about creating or implementing your learning strategy? Take a look at the following upcoming events.

L&D Strategy Accelerator

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Testimonials

What Our Clients Are Saying

Showing impressive impact across all focus areas

Learning Uncut supported us to develop, launch and embed a nationally recognised organisational learning strategy which one year on is showing impressive impact across all focus areas and clear progression on the journey to realising our vision.

- Zoe Freeman

Lead Advisor Strategy and Programmes, L&D, Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency

Excellent value for money

Learning Uncut upskilled our project team in research, project management and stakeholder engagement in such a way that team members have adopted these methods to progress other projects. This represented excellent value for money, and an outstanding example of consultants building public sector capability in a sustainable way.

- Diane Hickman

Director, APS Academy, Australian Public Service Commission

Fabulous system with amazing resources

The L&D Strategy Builder is a fabulous system with amazing resources that provide a step-by-step guide to develop a strategy. The experience that Michelle has and the value that we received from the coaching sessions was really great.

- Nicole Mola

L&D Manager, Good Sammy Enterprises

Has been really valuable

The structure of the Strategy Builder process is great. The templates are valuable, but I can’t imagine doing this without Learning Uncut’s expert coaching. Having an external perspective to bounce things off has been really valuable.

- Greg Woulfe

Global L&D Manager, Orica

We found the extra mentoring invaluable

The support I’ve received from Learning Uncut has been unreal. The templates are comprehensive and walk you through step by step, and we feel that we are developing our Learning Strategy at our own, comfortable rate. We’ve also found the extra mentoring invaluable.

- Fiona McSweeney

Senior Manager L&D, Property Development Company

Excellent at making things happen

"Learning Uncut brings strategic understanding. They’re not concerned with tactical trivia, but know what details need to get done to achieve strategic goals. They’re excellent at making things happen."

- L&D Professional

Return on investment is high

"Michelle has deep experience and expertise across the whole range of L&D areas, and a generous spirit of sharing her knowledge with others. We expected her to deliver on her commitment, however she exceeded our expectations. The level of research, detail and tailoring she delivered was far greater than we have come to expect from consultants. The return on investment is high."

- L&D Professional

Excels at consulting with her stakeholders

Michelle excels at consulting with her stakeholders to develop performance-focussed strategies aligned with the goals of the business. She is respected as an advisor on all matters to do with formal, informal and social learning, as well as related to Communities of Practice, networking and collaborative tools.

- Justine Jardine

Learning Experience Designer

I highly recommend the services of Michelle

"After struggling for months to develop a Project Plan to deliver our training strategy, utilising the resources of another provider, I contacted Michelle via a cold call. From my initial conversation with her, I was impressed by her knowledge, focus and attention to detail. Michelle was incredibly professional and thorough throughout the process. She developed a Project Plan that exceeded our expectations. The result of Michelle’s work has meant that our training strategy now has the detail behind it to move forward in an organised and holistic manner. I highly recommend the services of Michelle with regard to strategic project planning."

- Dominique Brown

HR Manager

Superb listener and a quick study

"Michelle met with our team about the online course we are developing and ways we might provide microlearning opportunities for our learners. She is a superb listener and a quick study. She demonstrated a remarkable ability to dive into an arena new to her and quickly gain her bearings so that she could provide value-added support. We were invigorated by the creativity and expansiveness of her thinking."

- Sarah Rosenthal

Professional Coach

Instrumental in creating the Supply Chain technical (Learning) Academy

Michelle was instrumental in creating the Supply Chain technical (Learning) Academy at Coca-Cola Amatil. She took leadership in developing its L&D strategies, elevated Working out Loud, the effective use of Communities, and spearheaded numerous Capability programs. She is a true leader in strategy, stakeholder management, communication, learning and development. Her dedication, passion for her work and positivity is infectious.

- Vishnu Reddy

National Planning Capability & Optimisation Manager

Providing guidance in strategy development

"Michelle has supported Asahi Beverages in the development of its Supply Chain Academy. Michelle has been both a mentor and external adviser for our Supply Chain Academy Manager, providing guidance in strategy development along with the day to day challenges and opportunities. "

- Anna Reid

General Manager, Asahi Beverages

She has a wealth of knowledge

"Michelle mentored and supported our learning leaders to form an organisational learning strategy; including tactics to shift culture and bring in new learning technologies. She also led a very important piece of work on benchmarking which gave us insights into how to move to a learning organisation. Whilst working with Michelle, I learnt so much - she has a wealth of knowledge and is practical in her approach. I highly recommend her for any organisation looking to boost their learning strategy or refine ways of working."

- Morgaine Sandona

Change Manager, Qantas

Questions

FAQs

When should I get outside help with my L&D strategy?

It’s never too early or too late to get help with your strategy. Many of our clients work with us because they’ve made a start on their strategy and progress has stalled. Or because they’ve created a multiphased plan to modernise their organisation’s learning and they’re ready to plan the next phase. Expert help can ensure your learning strategy is backed by evidence-informed insights, and real-world experience – with actions that get you to your goals quicker.

Do you offer custom support packages?

Yes. You can customise a flexible support package to work on specific aspects of your learning strategy. Design a package to meet your needs, including a mix of reviews, research, workshops, inspiring presentations, on-call support, and additional mentoring.

Can I add extra support to the L&D Strategy Builder package?

Yes. You can add on extra support, including:

Stakeholder presentations delivered by one of our strategy experts
Design, facilitation and analysis of human-centred discovery sessions
Preparation of key research and strategy documents
L&D Operating Model optimisation
Skill development toolkit for your L&D team

What kinds of organisations do you work with?

No matter the size of your organisation or the industry you’re in, you need a learning strategy. That’s why we work with all kinds of organisations around the globe.