Posts by Steven Smith
The right data, not more data: Lessons from EFMD’s 2026 Masterclass
Once learning is aligned with the business, how do we demonstrate its contribution to the results? For many years, one of the principal challenges facing learning functions was showing how their portfolios aligned with their organisation’s strategy. Learning teams needed to move beyond reporting the programmes they delivered and explain how those programmes supported the…
Read MoreFrom learning to lasting impact: What we learned at EFMD’s Masterclass
“How do we demonstrate that learning really changes the business?” That question brought together 22 learning and development professionals for EFMD’s Learning Impact Masterclass—a hands-on journey that turned theory into practice. Over several months, participants moved from eLearning modules and a lively virtual classroom in May to peer coaching and final use case presentations in…
Read MoreHow learning functions can generate real impact: Insights from AIA and UEFA Academy
The June edition of EFMD Corporate Services’ Sharing Best Practice webinar focused on how learning functions can create a measurable impact for their organisations, their learners, and even society at large. The session featured two organisations certified by EFMD’s LIFT (Learning Impact for Today and Tomorrow) framework: AIA, Asia’s largest insurance group, and the UEFA…
Read MoreLIFT Standards – Reporting and Acknowledgement of Learning Impact
EFMD’s Learning Impact for Today and Tomorrow certification, LIFT, was created to support learning functions that want to ensure they are delivering real impact to their organisations, learners, and even society at large. Explore the last LIFT standard – Reporting on and Acknowledgement of Learning Impact. Over the years, the ways in which Learning and…
Read MoreLIFT Standards – Stakeholder Involvement
How does the learning function involve the learning team, learners, the organisation and society at large in measuring its impact? LIFT allows a learning function to benchmark its approach to delivering impact to its stakeholders based on numerous industry standards. A recent Brandon Hall study found that only 46% of companies believe that their learning…
Read MoreLIFT Standards – Application of the Learning Impact Framework
The second standard enables LIFT to empower a learning function in assessing its current approach to applying the impact framework, offering an external perspective on its maturity level. How does your learning function measure the impact of their solutions? Are you giving your business leaders valuable insights into how your learning solutions are contributing to…
Read MoreUEFA Academy obtains LIFT certification
The Union of European Football Associations, UEFA, through its learning function, the UEFA Academy, has successfully completed EFMD’s Learning Impact Certification, LIFT. Warm congratulations! The LIFT certification was created using inputs from over 30 organisations, including CLIP-accredited learning functions and EQUIS-accredited business schools. LIFT was piloted in 2023 and was officially launched in February of…
Read MoreLIFT Standards – Comprehensiveness of the Learning Impact Framework
Lift your learning function’s impact on your organisation and your learners through EFMD’s impact certification, LIFT. Learning Impact for Today and Tomorrow certification, LIFT, was created to support learning functions who want to ensure they are delivering real impact to their organisations, learners and society at large. It allows them to examine how they currently…
Read MoreLIFT – Learning Impact for Today and Tomorrow
EFMD Corporate Services introduces LIFT – Learning Impact for Today and Tomorrow, the first learning impact certification. LIFT allows learning functions to engage their stakeholders in analysing how learning delivers impact to them in a spirit of continuous improvement. Demonstrating impact has been a focus for Learning Functions for quite some time. And yet, in…
Read MoreJLL France becomes the second certified LIFT (Learning Impact for Today and Tomorrow) pilot organisation
In its 2023 pilot phase, LIFT (Learning Impact for Today and Tomorrow) is an EFMD certification that was created in 2022 using a design thinking approach with inputs from over 30 organisations, including CLIP-accredited learning functions and EQUIS-accredited business schools. JLL France is the second organisation to complete the LIFT process. “JLL has been another…
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