Organisations face constant and increasingly complex change, making it critical to bring people along the journey. But can L&D play a more proactive role in enabling successful transformation—by fostering buy-in, anticipating resistance, and building change capability. And how can learning professionals go beyond training to become both strategic and operational partners by building change capability across the organisation? 

Join Nigel Cassidy and this month’s guests – Melanie Franklin, CEO at Capability for Change and Founder of Change Capability Community; Nick Baker, Senior Lead: Learning Design and Digital Innovation at The Football Association; and Paul Hodgkinson, Learning and Development Business Partner at CIPD – as we explore what L&D professionals have in their toolkit that enables them to become true and essential cogs in the change machine. 

In this episode you will learn:

  • How L&D can be used to empower voice, solicit input and buy-in to change?
  • What can be done to anticipate and address blockers and barriers before they surface?
  • What tools does L&D have at its disposal to build ‘change capability’ and prepare the conditions for successful transformation at both individual and organisational levels?

Duration: 00:32:12

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