Engagement matters – HR and L&D can work together when they get engaged

At the Plateau Insights user conference – which took place in the ancient city of Rome – learning experts took on an age-old issue.

Is the LMS dead? Plateau CEO, Paul Sparta, quizzed the panel of Clive Shepherd, Donald Taylor and Nigel Paine for their expert knowledge.

One of the themes they picked up on during the session was the ‘siloed’ attitude of HR and learning professionals – who, the panel reported, are still not working from the same page and maintain their separate ways whenever possible.

However it was agreed that in today’s climate this cannot be sustainable. And it was conceded that they are gradually moving towards more integrated ways of working. Technology is obviously one way of helping achieve this, and social media was cited as being relevant and important to solving this issue.

On the question of whether it was a choice between social, informal learning, or the more formal LMS systems currently in place across many organisations, Clive said: “Learning has always been social and will always be social - there is room for social and LMS - a coalition.”