Business Impact Learning

As we have seen in recent times, a tough financial situation inevitably leads to budget cuts and almost always, training and development budgets get cut first. The reason for this is that it is not clear to the executives, and CFOs in particular, how continuous learning impacts their business. To those outside of the human capital profession, it is not very intuitive that in tough times, the right answer is actually to invest more in professional development so that new ideas are explored and harnessed, and therefore can manifest necessary business changes which can help the company get out of the downturn faster and come out better prepared for the new business climate.


The specific metric ROI is becoming less important, but that doesn't mean outcomes are unimportant. Quite the opposite. However, we are finally recognizing that it is becoming increasingly difficult to measure ROI in a straightforward manner. Just twenty-five years ago, intangibles accounted for less than a third of the value of the S&P 500. Today, intangibles make up over 80 percent of the index value. CEOs reported that they would rather see business impact from learning over ROI. Conscious Mind Treatment can both measure the metric ROI and improve the intangibles!

Making the connection between learning and business impact is what Conscious Mind Treatment is all about. That is not to say that continuous learning is a flawed model or that the genuine attempts to improve it are unwarranted. Continuous learning with a direct connection to application of that learning-what some call action learning-to a business issue is significantly better. In fact, Guaranteed Measurable Results, LLC has been recognized by Harvard Business Review as being the most effective training to provide measurable business outcomes.

Learn something to change something, to make something better, to improve something, as opposed to learning something because it just feels good to learn something is the difference between gaining knowledge and gaining wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge in action. Conscious Mind Treatment provides the reader wisdom that creates worldly success and eternal peace.

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Is Your Company Prepared?
Does learning have a purpose?
What are your learning metrics?
Are you measuring progress over time?
Is learning relevant to the learner and the organization?