What happens when your team’s “completed” training meets a real crisis? Our CEO, Lawrie Day, says traditional Learning Management Systems aren’t built for that moment – and makes the case in Training Journal for why immersive, scenario-based learning is what actually builds readiness.
Organisations need faster, more practical ways to prepare everyone for disruption. Lawrie Day explores why immersive, scenario-based learning, and the right platform, can help L&D leaders move beyond tick-box training, strengthen resilience, improve readiness, and deliver measurable results in a world shaped by cyber threats, regulation, and ever constant change.
We live in a complex business world full of digital change and external factors impacting a business such as politics and increasing regulation. There’s an ever-increasing need for organisations to protect their organisations, stakeholders and citizens. In a digital world, bad news travels fast and business leaders must have a clear plan of action to take the right steps.
Regulatory scrutiny is getting stricter all the time – there has never been more pressure to be ready
Every organisation faces the real potential for a crisis and those making the headlines are a reminder of what’s possible. We’ve seen high profile UK organisations and retailers go through the harsh realities of cybersecurity breaches, incidents on trains and water issues leaving residents without water for weeks. Beyond rising customer demands, regulatory scrutiny is getting stricter all the time – there has never been more pressure to be ready.
From crisis to continuous improvement
From a leadership perspective, every crisis presents an opportunity for learning and improvement and should be taken advantage of. This means regular leadership training is essential. Effective leaders examine previous crisis management experiences, both within their organisations and across industries, to identify best practices and areas for enhancement. By continuously refining crisis management strategies and incorporating ESG insights, leaders can better prepare their organisations to navigate future challenges.
In the learning arena, advances in cloud technology and immersive platforms have made it much easier to do realistic training and offer huge benefits to business and participants by enabling workers to train alongside their jobs. This way, it’s business as usual providing critical services while also learning important skills. Teams can run crisis simulations right in the places where they work with the right people. They can bring together learners from multiple locations in collaborative virtual environments that foster engagement and peer learning.
What’s changed in business now: Why must L&D leaders improve their training delivery?
The world is more dangerous and unpredictable than ever for organisations today. Cyberattacks on national infrastructure, supply chain disruptions, threats to space and maritime assets, and healthcare systems pushed to their limits are now routine. Increasing regulatory scrutiny adds further pressure — and this is before considering hybrid threats from state-supported and non-state actors who combine physical disruption with cyber operations, social engineering, and information manipulation across social media. The result is a threat landscape that is faster, more complex, and more interconnected than at any point in recent history.
Today’s organisations also face unprecedented challenges in training and development. L&D leaders are under pressure to achieve more with less in terms of training their employees, stretching finite budgets yet delivering effective training.
Leaders urgently need to upskill and reskill workers in order to tackle critical challenges facing their organisation – from leadership development to digital transformation. To build capabilities that will last, not just training as a tick box exercise. In embracing new immersive approaches to train more people, government organisations can save time, reduce expenses, improve worker productivity and satisfaction, whilst meeting their compliance and capacity needs…Read the full article on Training Journal.