The Co-operative and Kineo collaborate to create innovative learning for leaders
As part of its organisational development, The Co-operative identified the need to focus on driving consistent development of its top 500 leaders. But how to reach out to this diverse and dispersed group, and challenge, motivate and support them?
The Co-operative and Kineo have partnered to address that
challenge through the Leadership Development Zone, a Moodle based
online portal as a focus for leadership development. A new case
study on the Kineo website tells the story of its success.
The Co-operative recognised the need for an online portal to act
as a focus for their leadership development. With this in mind they
commissioned Kineo to help them to realise what this could be like.
Over a 9 month journey, The Co-operative and Kineo collaborated to
realise the vision. The Co-operative and Kineo teams collaborated
to develop the requirements together, with a range of key internal
business partners.
Moodle was seen as the ideal solution for several reasons:
- Open source means a cost effective start point with no on-going user licence fees
- The open source nature enabled Kineo to adapt the way Moodle worked with content creation, publishing, search and display
- Houses and supports blended learning solutions effectively
- Mechanisms for feedback are provided, such as surveys and polls
- Moodle is very flexible and scalable so provided a solution which could meet current and future needs
The successful collaboration is leading to great results in the
initial stages of the project. Within the first 3 months of launch
up to 50% of The Co-operative's senior leaders have made use of the
portal, and that number continues to grow.
Key to achieving and sustaining this success is ensuring the site
is actively managed and marketed. This was factored in from the
outset, as Mark Harrison, Kineo Director and consultant to the
project explained:
"We could have ended up with a well presented website with useful
content that nobody looked at. This was identified right from the
start as a risk by The Co-operative team behind the project and so
together The Co-operative and Kineo and came up with an approach
that means there is a constant draw to the site… The Co-operative
is using working groups to identify and help design and develop the
topics and so everything on the site is fresh, relevant and
important".
Commenting on the overall project, Jackie Lanham, Director of
Group Resourcing & Development at The Co-operative
said:
"The project has surpassed my expectations. The Leadership
development zone has acted as a real catalyst to the formation of a
learning culture within The Co-operative. Easily accessed learning
at the point of need enables our leaders to be the best they can
be".
To find out more about the project you can access the full case
study in the
Kineo E-learning and LMS Case studies area.