2019 Workplace Learning Report – LinkedIn

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LinkedIn’s 2019 Workplace Learning Report analyzes how HR professionals are managing their L&D responsibilities and dealing with opportunities and challenges. To study the industry trends, LinkedIn surveys over 1,200 HR executives and more than 2,100 employees around the world.

Some main findings from this report include:

  • Just 15% of HR professionals’ time was spent on pushing employee engagement with learning. The more popular approach to engage employees with learning is via email marketing with 65% of HR professionals using it and more than half of employees learning about new programs through this approach.
  • Plans to adjust L&D program to be suitable to Gen Z employees was developing by 74% of talent professionals. A majority of employees agreed that they would take a course suggested by their managers.
  • Less than 30% of HR leaders now considered budget as one of the top challenges for L&D. In fact, 43% of them reported having increased their L&D budget in 2019.
  • HR professionals all agreed to spend more on online learning compared to instructor-led training. More HR leaders are using internal resources to create training content compared to external resources.
  • More than 80% of talent leaders claimed that the size their team will either remain the same or grow in 2019. A majority of them reported being supported by senior management actively to boost L&D within their organization.
  • The most in-demand soft skills for 2019 include creativity, persuasion and analytical reasoning, while cloud computing, artificial intelligence and analytical reasoning topped the hard skills list.
  • The most common methods HR leaders used to present successful learning outcomes were the reduction of skills gaps, increase in employee engagement level and increase in employee competitiveness. In order to identify the most critical skills to develop, HR managers most regularly implement internal skills assessments, keep track of KPIs or organise meetings with other executives.
  • More than half of HR professionals reported to working closely with business executives to develop L&D programs. 61% of them had meetings with senior managers to assist them to determine the most important skills to develop.
  • Most generations are motivated when working around their colleagues. In average, half of them would appreciate the opportunity to work in groups with instructors or other learners while taking a course. While gen Z prefers to learn independently, most of boomer and Gen X employees would prefer to have instructor-led training. A majority of employees admitted that they wanted to utilize their spare time at work to learn.

Full report here.