A new benchmark study into current and future trends in organisational learning has revealed that self-directed learning is the route preferred by the majority of employees and that the role of managers in facilitating this is critical to success.

The study, by online learning provider, SkillSoft, was compiled following two major pieces of research which took place towards the end of 2006 - involving an online survey of 5,360 employees plus in-depth interviews with senior HR thought-leaders from 16 global organisations (see notes to editors for detailed methodology).

One of the aims of the study was to establish whether there were any synergies between how employees preferred to learn with the training made available to them by their organisation.

The top five learner preferences were:

1. Being able to get at information as and when I need it.

2. Being in charge of my own learning pace.

3. Attending classroom courses.

4. Learning in bite-sized pieces.

5. Learning at my desktop.

These findings echo the findings of  Towards Maturity research and form useful additional evidence for learner preferences in the workplace.

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This article was originally created by the Work based e-learning project at e-skills UK and is reproduced with kind permission.

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