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How can Profile help me?

Profile challenges your organisation to:

• Identify the learning needs of your organisation and develop a strategy for learning and development
• Ensure your learning and development strategy demonstrates how it supports the organisation’s vision
• Involve people in planning their learning and development, and ensure they can show how development activities link to their own objectives
• Consider the future capacity of the organisation, the skills and capabilities people will need in the future, for example through considering issues of staff retention and succession planning at senior management level
• Explore which innovative, cost-effective and flexible approaches to development might work in your organisation – not just conventional external training
• Embed a culture of continuous learning in the organisation,  in which people are encouraged to learn from successes and mistakes
• Consider how the organisation celebrates and recognises learning and development achievements
• Ask how the organisation ensures it makes use of people’s talents
• Explore the potential role for coaching and mentoring as development techniques
• Take different people’s learning styles into account
• Help people to plan and develop their careers
• Ensure the organisation identifies potential leaders and encourages everyone to develop leadership abilities
• Consider how the structure of the organisation impacts on development
• Evaluate the organisation’s investment in learning and development, measuring its real impact and identifying potential improvements
• Ensure people take responsibility for advancing their own learning and development, with support from their managers

• Enable people to learn from peers, mentors and role models to help them develop skills including leadership, knowledge-sharing and management.