Learning and Development

My Blogs so far have been focused on Social Media, this one will digress slightly into learning and development.

This is because I have new Role with the British Institute for Learning and Development. Therefore, this topic is aimed at those in that field, and many educators appear to be quite clued in to twitter and linkedin, and other social and formal networks, so I am hoping to reach out to them via this platform.

The L&D profession seems complex and diverse with multiple qualifications and experience, as an industry there is a lot of rationalisation in that area that needs to happen, but how can one judge one qualification against another?

This is just my view is a newbie's view. This is what it looks like to the non L&D person just starting in the industry.

The BILD aims to help in that by offering a grade of membership, Associate, Member, or Fellow. Using these grades you can quickly see that this educator has had a their qualifications checked against our listed standards and you can have confidence. There is a quality assurance part too, you can use the BILD like an ombudsman if you have an issue with a trainer. Only a professional body can do that.

The BILD is here to protect the industry and to ensure that quality training is delivered, training is often the first thing to go in a recession, therefore it's important that the training you get is of the highest quality.

The CIPD caters very well for the HR industry but leaves the L&D profession feeling left out, the BILD is striving to develop the L&D profession and be the Institute that L&D professionals need, what can we learn on that journey?

Let me know, as the BILD is the right vehicle to affect that change.
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