AACSB International

To Empower Learning Over a Lifetime
How academia and businesses can instill a culture of learning for organizational success

Lifelong learning. It’s more than a strategy to develop employees and foster retention—it’s a key component to organizational success by helping employees to keep their skills relevant in the face of disruption.

In collaboration with Chief Learning Officer magazine, we asked learning professionals for their opinions on the challenges related to creating a culture of learning—and how they intend to meet those challenges.

Read the report to learn more about the key findings:

• Lifelong learning supports employee agility and increases employee satisfaction, engagement, and retention.
• Nurturing a culture of lifelong learning enables organizations to better respond to disrupted market environments.
• Talent managers are pivoting to strategies that enable and empower learners, and often involve reliance on external partners and platforms.
• Different credentials offer greater perceived benefit on dimensions such as credibility and transferability (degrees) and accessibility and affordability (certificates/badges).
• A majority of talent managers see shifts in learning methodologies, including heavier reliance on technology, personalization, and social learning.
• Among the top ways managers help foster lifelong learning are through mentoring, feedback mechanisms, and toolkits.

All of these insights suggest changing roles for both talent leaders and business educators, as well as the need for business, professional organizations, and business schools to work together to develop a better ecosystem or infrastructure to support lifelong learning—where individuals are enabled and empowered to be responsible for their own learning.