Survey This: Bersin & Associates 2009 State of HR and L&D Professionals

Industry research firm Bersin & Associates is launching a new research initiative, The Corporate HR and Training Profession, and they are firing up this research with a survey. The survey is an overview, 20 questions, designed to help HR and learning professionals and executives understand how job challenges, career goals, and demographics compare to those of their peers.

We’re certainly excited about seeing the results of this survey when completed. We recently announced that we see a growing market trend towards performance-based learning programs and it will be interesting to see if Bersin’s findings supports this.

In the past, Bersin has identified that three of the top 22 talent management processes that drive the highest business impact are related to the integration of training and performance management practices. We’ve also worked with Bersin on a white paper about the trend toward the integration of learning and performance management systems.

With organizations heavily focused on the implementation of performance management systems and the entry of learning management systems vendors into the performance management market, this topic has become more urgent than ever and at that time our research identified that more than 25 percent of corporate learning and development (L&D) managers now rate integration with performance management as one of their top two priorities.

So what do you think the big trends and outcomes will be of the survey? Fill it out, tell your friends about it, and we’ll connect again when it’s complete to discuss the results.