How can you get your voice heard and raise support for innovative learning approaches? With budgets tighter than ever, it’s a question facing everyone in L&D right now.

Laura Overton of Towards Maturity thinks she may have the answer.

At a recent CERTPOINT Virtual User Forum, Laura outlined her top tips for increasing the effectiveness of elearning. Her crucial point: you need to get managers on board.

Why is management support so important? Simple. In Laura’s extensive research over several years and across hundreds of organizations, one statistic stands out: 55% of learners say their line manager’s opinion influences their take up of elearning.

In other words, if you don’t have the managers on board, no matter how good everything else is, your learning program is likely to fail.

So just how do you get managers’ attention?

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While the world waits for the football world cup to begin in South Africa on June 11^th, learning professionals will gather in London on June 8^th for an event that is just as significant  (well, we think so anyway).  The Learning and Skills Group Members’ Conference will be the meeting point for over 400 L&D professionals and once again CERTPOINT is proud to be a sponsor.

Times are hard – and that makes it a good time for L&D professionals to meet. They are under increasing pressure to do more with less. At times like these, contemplating our next step is often best done together.

As well as sharing their professional experience with each other, delegates will have the chance to listen to great names from the learning industry such as Jay Cross, Patrick Dunn, Jane Hart, Charles Jennings, Laura Overton, Nigel Paine, Donald H Taylor, Julie Wedgwood, and many others.

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