LPI launches new online accreditation service for L&D departments
The Learning and Performance Institute is pleased to announce Pathways to Excellence - the latest addition to its accreditation services - designed to rapidly accelerate L&D departments to a high standard of capability and performance.
The Learning and Performance Institute is pleased to announce the launch of a new online accreditation service designed to rapidly accelerate L&D departments to a high standard of capability and maximise its contribution to overall business performance.
Pathways to Excellence follows on from the LPI's Capability Map, which has become the L&D industry's leading benchmark for evaluating the skills and opportunities for learning practitioners. Utilizing the experience of LPI consultants over the past 20 years, Pathways takes the principles of the Capability Map and applies them to the L&D department as a whole, identifying strengths and weaknesses against a comprehensive maturity model, recognising leading practice and facilitating a "direction of travel" that enables the department to quickly excel.
LPI Chief Executive, Colin Steed, commented, "Since 1995 the Institute has been working with learning individuals and organisations to create an industry wide Code of Practice, so we are delighted to be launching another accreditation programme to complement an unrivalled industry portfolio."
Steed continued, "Learning & Development departments engaged with Pathways will be able to demonstrate a commitment to excellence, adherence to a recognised Code of Practice and a commitment to continually raise learning outcomes and standards."
The Pathways program consists of three steps or levels:
Step 1 – Diagnosis. A web-based self-assessment to quickly analyse a department's current strengths and opportunities. This diagnosis includes an overall scorecard that prioritises opportunities for improvement.
Step 2 – Key Focus Areas and Action Plan. This step drills down beyond the overall scorecard and looks at the metrics in greater detail. LPI consulting services can assist at this stage by creating a detailed action plan that will describe the steps necessary to quickly achieve excellence.
Step 3 – Validation. In this highest level of engagement with Pathways, the responses that participants have made are formally assessed and accredited. This stage in the process reviews the extent to which a self-assessment has been accurate and accredits that the "direction of travel" is being optimised. L&D functions that achieve Level 3 engagement within the program become accredited departments and are permitted to use the LPI logo on all materials, along with the text ‘Accredited Learning Department’.
Alan Bellinger, Principal Consultant, LPI, remarked, "The benefits for a Learning Department are significant. Pathways helps to identify and prioritise areas for improvement, provides a road-map for the evolution of the Department and engenders stakeholder confidence. With the LPI providing continuous independent, expert support via the community, users of Pathways can be assured that their Learning Department will be fast-tracked to the highest standards of excellence."
For more information, visit the Pathways website at http://pathways.thelpi.org