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Using Learning Paths for Employee Development: A Guide
Take advantage of curated content to accelerate your employee development programs.
If your learning and development (L&D) team is offering the best possible employee development experience for your workforce, it’s likely that you have a number of programs running simultaneously. These can range from individual upskilling to team onboarding of new technology to organization-wide development opportunities.
Keeping that many plates spinning in the air, so to speak, takes a great deal of coordination and focus.
One solution that can reduce the workload for your L&D team is taking advantage of learning paths offered by a platform such as LinkedIn Learning.
How learning paths can enrich your development programs
Learning paths unlock even greater opportunities for your L&D team to support and scale employee development.
In an organization of 500 employees, there are 500 individual development plans to manage, not to mention the team, department, and organizational training needs.
Having learning paths at the ready for common learning opportunities offers multiple benefits:
Your L&D team can curate learning experiences that reflect your organization’s culture.
When multiple individuals upskill from the same source material, they share a common language and set of expected behaviors.
- You can offer individual upskilling in learning communities, creating connections between workers who might otherwise not interact with one another. LinkedIn data shows that employees who learn in community are more successful and feel a deeper sense of belonging.
Use cases for learning paths
Here are some examples of circumstances where a learning path can enhance your employee development program.
Individual upskilling
While individual employee development plans should be tailored to each employee’s goals, there are plenty of opportunities for utilizing learning paths as a way to offer consistency and ensure training aligns with the larger organizational goals.
- Case: A worker who has spent the majority of their professional career in a traditional setting is being promoted to their first management position.
- Pain point: The organization has recently shifted to a hybrid workplace setting. The employee has very little experience being managed in a hybrid setting, and zero experience leading in one. They are nervous about how well they will transition to this new role.
- Learning path: Develop Essential Skills to Manage in a Hybrid Workplace
This path offers foundational skills for managing hybrid employees, including an overview of what it takes to be an effective hybrid employee.
By exploring in-depth both sides of the hybrid manager/direct report relationship, this path offers new hybrid managers the insights and skills needed to succeed.
Team learning
Whether it is a new technology or a new company policy, learning paths are an excellent way to bring an entire team up to speed together.
- Case: Governments and investors around the world are putting pressure on organizations to enact sustainable business practices.
- Pain point: The organization’s leadership team needs to be brought up to speed on what is happening with sustainability in business in order to make important decisions about the company’s path forward.
- Learning path: Sustainability Transformation for Leaders
This path is designed to speak directly to members of the C-suite, addressing their specific areas of concern, including strategies and opportunities that can drive business decisions.
Organizational development
When L&D needs to address matters of company culture, learning paths can help by offering content created and vetted by experts in those areas.
- Case: An organization wants to provide cybersecurity training for its employees.
- Pain point: The training needs to be self-paced and durable so that new hires can undergo the same training.
- Learning path: Build Your Cybersecurity Awareness Skills
This fundamental cybersecurity training addresses the greatest vulnerabilities faced by organizations today. It is an excellent way to train cybersecurity-aware habits across your whole workforce.
Career pathing
Investing in your workforce pays dividends when they remain with your organization to further their careers.
- Case: An outstanding employee with an aptitude for tech wants to further their career in that field.
- Pain point: The employee is searching for mentoring from people who have overcome social barriers to build successful careers.
- Learning path: Women Transforming Tech: Navigating Your Career
This learning path addresses the realities faced by women in the tech industry with honesty and teaches how to identify mentors and build the skills needed to get ahead.
Academic certification
LinkedIn offers learning paths that have been reviewed by select university partners who recognize these courses for earning academic credit.
- Case: An employee has identified a desired career path in project management and is ready to train as a project coordinator.
- Pain point: The employee is enrolled at one of LinkedIn’s partner academic institutions while working full-time and wants to reduce their overall workload while still advancing their career.
- Learning path: Become a Project Coordinator
This course can earn the learner credits toward their diploma while teaching them on-the-job skills that can advance their career.
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