244 — The value of benchmarking

How do you accurately measure the effectiveness of your learning and development function? Can you provide clear evidence that your team are delivering value for your organisation? And how do you compare to other L&D teams? If your answer to any of these questions is: 'I have no idea', then benchmarking might be a good place to start. This week on The Good Practice Podcast, Owen and Ross G are joined by Carrie Horvath and Gent Ahmetaj - the team behind the Learning Performance Benchmark - to explore benchmarking and how it can help you develop your strategy. We discuss: what benchmarking is the benefits of benchmarking the value of collaboration and competition in a community. Show notes You can find details of Emerald Work's Learning Health Check at: emeraldworks.com/research/learning-health-check  Get started now for free! As a small production note, we were trying a new recording method this week and the sound quality suffered at times. We're always learning! Which brings us to... ...'What I Learned This Week', where Owen talked about Boris Becker's revealing habit. You can watch the video of Andre Agassi discussing this story at: twitter.com/tennistv/status/1387758939534675972?s=21  Ross spoke again about rapid, low-quality Covid testing (previously discussed in episode 208). These are now available for free to anyone living in the UK: nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/testing/regular-rapid-coronavirus-tests-if-you-do-not-have-symptoms/