We work in partnership with learning leaders and their teams to strengthen their strategy, skills and impact. Our work enhances the impact and profile of learning teams across the business and with senior stakeholders.
The leaders of L&D functions need to revolutionise their approach by creating a learning strategy that aligns with business strategy and by identifying and enabling the capabilities needed to achieve success.
McKinsey & Company
A powerful learning function
ultimately drives business success
In an era of rapid technological advancement and evolving workforce expectations, an effective and impactful learning function is essential. It drives organisational agility, equipping individuals and teams with the skills required to navigate the future of work.
L&D is not just a function – it is a strategic enabler that enhances employee capability, fosters innovation, and empowers organisations to drive performance. To be truly effective, L&D must align with their organisation’s business and people strategy and demonstrate its value and impact.
HPC provides challenge and
support to learning leaders
Learning teams are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the value that they add – by building capability for the future, ensuring optimum people performance and measuring the impact of their learning solutions. This creates a number of different dynamics and challenges for learning teams.
HPC provides advice, support and capability building solutions to learning leaders and their teams, including:
- Structuring their team
- Building internal capability to partner with the organisation
- Positioning the learning function as a strategic business partner
- Evolving learning strategy to support business performance
- Becoming a data-driven function that drives organisational agility, business performance, and future skill development
Our Focus
We partner with learning teams to understand the challenges that they face. This allows us to provide actionable and pragmatic solutions, that are based on research. Typically, our work fits into three main areas and covers some or all of the following elements:
Setting yourself
up for success
- L&D strategy
- Team effectiveness
- The structure of the team
- Developing capability and skillsets
- Clarity of the team’s purpose and mission
Stakeholder
Management
- Business partnering
- Defining future skills
- Diagnosing business needs
- Communicating effectively
- Measuring the impact of learning and what’s working
Organisation wide
interaction
- Skills-first approach
- Performance management
- Creating Learning Academies
- Review and redesign of programmes
- L&D as a driver for talent acquisition and retention
A Thinking Partner
As an independent advisor, we support you in defining your strategy and bringing this to life in a way that delivers results. Our team acts as a thinking partner to learning leaders; advising, guiding and mentoring them to embrace a broader role within the organisation and formulate an ambitious vision for their function.
Our Team
Our team plays a pivotal role in helping learning leaders shape the important part they play in the future of their organisation’s learning and development journey. They add value and offer fresh perspectives from their experience in previous learning roles and insights gained from their impactful client work.
Our Work with Learning Teams
HPC’s reputation is built on the implicit trust our clients place in us to offer pragmatic advice, fresh perspectives and a partnership approach that challenges and adds value to the way learning teams work. We work closely with learning teams to understand their goals and to support them in driving real change and growth.
Assessing the Impact of High Potential Programmes for a Leading Hospitality Brand
Our collaboration validated the success of our client’s high potential programme and demonstrated a significant return on investment. The compelling evidence presented enabled our client to secure funding for an additional three years of the programme - fostering the growth of future leaders across the organisation.
Developing a Comprehensive Learning Strategy for a Leading Utilities Provider
We developed a comprehensive learning strategy that provided a clear roadmap for our client's current and future learning needs. The strategy was aligned with the organisation’s people strategy and rooted in the business strategy. It resonated deeply with stakeholders, providing the learning team with the credibility to support the delivery of the business strategy.
Enhancing Internal L&D Consulting Capabilities in the Technology Sector
We helped the learning team build the skills needed to shift from order takers to strategic partners. Practical frameworks helped the team diagnose client needs and challenges, and new skills allowed them to have purposeful, consultative conversations. The team now operates with greater clarity, confidence, and credibility - delivering greater value across the organisation.
We worked closely with HPC on our approach to evaluate the outcome of our ‘Leaders for a Brighter Future’ programme that was based on survey outputs and data analytics. This evaluation approach has given us clear evidence of improvements in manager skillsets and we can see the sustainable changes in behaviour and increased engagement with their team.
Measuring the Impact of Learning
We partner with you to demonstrate your impact across the organisation through data and storytelling. We also support you in identifying the critical elements of your approach that are yielding the most significant behavioural change. Our experience is that by demonstrating the value of learning, learning leaders get greater stakeholder buy-in for future initiatives.
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