Learning Strategies and Standards
As a Head of Learning, where do you want to get to?
Your reply may be along the lines of 'to be facilitating world-class business performance through learning'. Whatever your current training operating model for achieving this; centralised, decentralised, outsourced or any combination of these, achieving sustainable performance improvement is difficult where all the various stakeholders are not systematically integrating their contributions. Traditional approaches do not readily enable this.
Likewise, achieving consistent effectiveness in skills transfer is impossible without reliable learning standards, policies and processes to benchmark against.
It is in these strategic areas that we can add value. The TAP Learning System promotes taking a holistic, systematic approach to organisational learning. It also comprises learning standards, quality assurance models and practitioner skills. Today, in enabling a truly systematic approach to stepchange performance, what TAP offers is unique – it can be the centrepiece of your entire learning strategy.
Do you know where you are today?
As with most Heads of L&D, you are likely to be regularly reviewing your learning strategy. Yet to define an improved way forward, realistic appraisal of where you are now is needed! Since 1998 The Training Foundation has assisted many organisations to benchmark their existing L&D service provision against best-practice, using our QA models.
These assessment models were uniquely recognised by a Queen’s Award for Innovation in 2005. Using these models our L&D Health-check Service offers an opportunity assess exactly where your current training quality is in relative terms.
Identifying the steps to take…..
We can assist you in any aspect of L&D strategy through our L&D Consultancy service, covering such areas as developing and embedding a learning culture, implementing a holistic learning transfer system, selecting, recruiting and retaining L&D personnel, managing external training provision, implementing blended learning programmes, developing learning portals and so on.

Michael Stark, former Head of Workforce Development, Learning & Skills Council
“Unless we have got some opportunity to demonstrate the commonality of standards across the private sector, in-house training and the public sector, then again we have no measure of future performance. That is one of the reasons why I am personally very interested in the TAP programme, which does offer precisely that.”
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A TAP Partner's view...
"We have long believed that the learning sector is in need of recognised professional standards to safeguard quality and value for money for clients. The Training Foundation is taking on an invaluable role in setting these standards, with Hemsley Fraser as an early adopter.”
Iain Lovett, Chief Executive
Hemsley Fraser
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