Academic & Corporate Relation Gaps. The T&D Role In Fulfilling It!

By Samer Rizk

Outlines:

Today's Business Environment

The Increasing Corporate Needs

Gaps from Academia to Corporate

Role of T&D in Bridging Gaps

The Future Learning

Today's business environment

Knowledge based economy

Strong global competition

Pervasive Globalization

Multicultural complexities

Frequent & Rampant change

Faster flow of information and communication

Increasing business complexity

WAR OF TALENT

Brain Teasing Facts

Key Talent Challenge

Talent Shortage By Position

Increasing Corporate Needs

Adaptability to change &

Flexibility

Innovation & Creativity Strategic

Cost Effectivenes

s

Strong Leadership

High Communicat

ion levels

High Efficiency

Proactiveness &

application ability

Gaps from Academia to Corporate

Academic & standard education has a limited flexibility.

Focusing on fundamentals & vocational, with few steps into corporate formal trainings.

Several emerging lines of business are untargeted with any specific curricula (ex Fashion Retail).

Gaps from Academia to Corporate

Focusing on building competences more than competencies.

Academic suffers from slow change process, unable to cope with the fast change in business environment & generated needs.

Essential but no longer enough.

Role of T&D in Bridging gaps

Continuous corporate skills update to new market tools

Corporate needs focused with flexibility in adapting to change

Develop the competencies for efficient use of competences.

Direct learning into specific tasks based on organization gap analysis.

Nurturing a “Knowledge based” workforce.

IS IT ENOUGH?

IS IT PROACTIVE?

IS IT STRATEGIC?

IS IT RESULTS GUARANTEED?

IS IT COST EFFECTIVE?

IS IT RELEVANT

TODAY?

THE FUTURE

Corporate Universities

Non Traditional Trainings

Blended Learning

Corporate Universities To embody the soul and the identity of the company To face complexity and uncertainty To implement business strategies To foster corporate innovation To cultivate a learning culture

Through:

Developing identified future needs Being Strategy Driven in their curriculum Acting as corporate knowledge backbone Focusing Trainings towards the future Moving Training from being a cost center to profit center.

Non Traditional Trainings

Non traditional classroom trainings Non formalistic student-teacher relationship. Non lockstep planned curriculums

Such as:

Knowledge cafes Video Games Learning Voice Learning Open debates sessions Learning blogs through social media Leadership Evening Experiential Learning

Blended Learning Uses a blend combination of :

- Academic Education- Vocational Education- Classic classroom trainings- Non Traditional trainings- E-Learning

Different tools & methods developing the same need.

Serves as a corporate learning and R&D at the same time for businesses.

Understand it

Adapt to it

Be aware, cultures matter…

Implement

THANK YOU

References:

Bersin & Associates (2011)Sarros, J. C (2001)Mullins, L.J.(2010)Felce, A. (2011)Leedy, P.D & Omrod, J.E (2005)McDermott, K.(2008)