L&D MEANS BUSINESS
You know L&D. Now learn to think like a business partner.
You've built your L&D expertise. But becoming a stronger partner to the business requires something more: understanding how the business works, diagnosing before prescribing, making sound recommendations, and influencing the people you support.
L&D Means Business is a 12-month cohort experience designed to build the business acumen, strategic judgment, and influence of experienced L&D professionals.
12 MONTHS | COHORT-BASED | 6 GROUP COACHING SESSIONS
$1,799
THE FOUR CAPABILITIES
UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS
UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS
UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS
Learn how your organization creates value, read business priorities and signals, and connect them to workforce and capability needs.
DIAGNOSE THE BUSINESS
UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS
UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS
Move beyond the stated request to investigate performance needs, uncover assumptions, and frame the problem worth solving.
ADVISE THE BUSINESS
INFLUENCE THE BUSINESS
INFLUENCE THE BUSINESS
Turn what you've learned into thoughtful options and recommendations, make the business case, and push back when needed.
INFLUENCE THE BUSINESS
INFLUENCE THE BUSINESS
INFLUENCE THE BUSINESS
Communicate recommendations with credibility, connect evidence to outcomes, and strengthen your influence with the leaders you support.
YOUR 12-MONTH JOURNEY
01 | Know How the Business Works
Understand how your organization creates value and what drives the business.
02 | Read the Business
Learn to interpret priorities, metrics, strategy, and organizational signals.
03 | Connect L&D to Business Priorities
Translate business priorities into workforce, performance, and capability implications.
04 | Diagnose Before You Prescribe
Investigate performance problems before jumping to learning solutions.
05 | Ask Better Business Questions
Use stronger questions to uncover needs, assumptions, constraints, and success measures.
06 | Frame the Real Problem
Turn what you've learned into a clear problem the business recognizes as worth solving.
06 | Frame the Real Problem
Turn what you've learned into a clear problem the business recognizes as worth solving.
07 | Move From Request to Recommendation
Develop options, consider tradeoffs, and make a thoughtful recommendation.
08 | Push Back With Purpose
Know when and how to challenge an approach while protecting the partnership.
09 | Make the Business Case
Connect your recommendation to value, resources, priorities, and results.
10 | Speak the Language of the Business
Communicate recommendations clearly and credibly to business leaders.
11 | Measure What Matters
Connect evidence to the performance or business need the work was designed to address.
12 | Earn Strategic Influence
Pull everything together and define how you'll continue strengthening your strategic partnership.