Learning creates value but communicating that value effectively is essential to gaining business support for learning initiatives.
Our Communicating With Stakeholders Toolkit gives learning and development (L&D) professionals practical resources to connect learning initiatives to business priorities, communicate with different stakeholders and prepare for strategic conversations. Use this toolkit to strengthen your business acumen, communicate learning’s value and build stronger partnerships with business leaders.
What’s Included
This toolkit is designed to help L&D professionals communicate more effectively with stakeholders and make stronger connections between learning, business priorities and performance. Whether you’re recommending a new initiative, discussing an existing program or seeking executive support, these resources can help you prepare and focus your message on what matters to your audience.
E-Book: How to Speak the Language of the Business
A guide to understanding the metrics that matter to executives and communicating learning’s value in ways that build credibility and support.
Know Your Audience Job Aid
A reference tool to help you identify what different stakeholders care about and tailor your communication to their goals, priorities and concerns.
Strategic Conversation Planning Tool
A planning tool to help you define the business problem and performance gap, connect your recommendation to measurable outcomes and prepare for the strategic conversation.
Additional Resources
Articles, podcasts, courses and tools to help you continue building your business acumen, strategic influence and communication skills.
Who Should Buy This Toolkit
This toolkit is ideal for learning and development professionals who want to strengthen their ability to communicate with business leaders and stakeholders. It’s useful for those who are:
- Aiming to strengthen their strategic planning skills within L&D
- Looking to connect learning initiatives to organizational priorities and business goals
- Seeking to communicate the value of learning more effectively
- Preparing for conversations with executives or other business stakeholders
- Looking to better understand and address stakeholder priorities and concerns
- Building their business acumen and strategic communication skills
- Seeking to strengthen their credibility and influence as a learning leader
Download the toolkit and start building stronger stakeholder conversations today.