Senior Leadership Development with Moodle

www.kineo.com

Stuart Chadwick

Vincent O’Donovan

A great partnership

Stuart Chadwick, Solutions Consultant

• Stuart has 12 years e-learning experience as consultant, learning

designer, LMS/CMS designer & project leader

• Kineo are a leading, award winning e-learning services provider with

offices in the UK, US, New Zealand , China, Sweden & Israel

• Bespoke & rapid e-learning, Moodle/Totara LMS, consultancy

Vincent O’Donovan, Head of Group Training & Development

• Vincent has 15 years training and development experience

• The Co-operative are the UK’s largest mutual business

• Over 5,000 retail trading outlets in the UK over 13 businesses

• Leading food, pharmacy, funeral and travel provider

The challenge – how we defined and met the business requirements

The journey – how we developed the solution

The solution – the Moodle based portal functionality & content

The results – roll out of the solution and feedback so far

Outline

Q. What are you hoping to

get out of today’s session?

The challenge

Background

Background

• As part of its organisational development, The Co-operative

identified the need to focus on driving consistent development of its

top 500 leaders.

Challenge

• The key challenge faced was how to reach out to such a widely

varied and geographically dispersed group of time challenged senior

leaders in a way that truly engaged them, motivated and provided

the developmental opportunities they needed.

Business objective

• To create one integrated port of call at The Co-operative Group

which provided a consistent leadership development framework and

experience for the top 500 leaders across the organisation.

Portal objectives

• Scalable across the Group

• User friendly, engaging and interactive

• Creative and on brand in terms of look and feel

• Fit for purpose - considering the executive population/ mobility/

limited time

• Compatible with internal systems and external technical standards

(i.e. SCORM compliant)

The journey

Q. What leadership development

challenges do you face?

Approach

“The key was to identify key topics, promoted by relevant senior

team members and focus on them for a set period of time. This

created focused discussions and an increased buzz which attracted

high numbers of busy senior managers to look at the online content

and take part in conversations with their peers. The Co-operative is

using working groups to identify and help design and develop the

topics and so everything on the site is fresh, relevant and important.”

Project Consultant – Mark Harrison

Kineo Director

User focused design

Initial designs

Initial designs

Prototype

The solution

Q. Do you use technology to

support leadership development?

If so, how?

Approach

“The Moodle platform allowed The Co-operative to create its own

unique portal providing leaders with a positive and engaging

learning experience based on their individual needs together with

a cost effective way of maintaining and developing the site.”

Project Stakeholder - Vincent O’Donovan

Head of Group Training & Development

Why Moodle?

Open

source

Cost

effective

Content

management

Classroom

training

FlexibleE-learning

Wide range

of content

Polls &

surveys

Scalable

Content

pages

User

friendly

Easy to

maintain

Custom

options

Branding

Learning path

Routes to learning

The leadership competency

framework

Click on each competency for

a definition and related

development solutions.

Key leadership topics

Brochure style development

solutions that relate to key

topics.

How do I want to learn

Development solutions based

on preferred ways of learning:

> learning on your own, e.g. e-

learning, reading, listening to

podcasts, watching a video

> learning with others, e.g.

short workout sessions or full

workshops.

Moodle portal homepage

Content results

Wide range of content

The results

Q. Do you internally promote

your new learning initiatives?

If so, how?

Promotional e-zine

Feedback

Easy to use

and quick to

access

Fantastic and

user friendly

Fresh and

modernThere’s some

great

information

A real

benefit to

all

Appreciate

access to it

and looks

promising

Great

communication

tool

Offers readily

available

guidance for

key topics

Very

interactive

Well worth

the

investment

The results so far

“The project has surpassed my expectations. The Leadership

Development Zone has acted as a real catalyst to the formation of a

learning culture within The Co-operative. Easily accessed learning at

the point of need enables our leaders to be the best they can be.”

Project Sponsor – Jackie Lanham,

Director of Group Resourcing & Development

4 months in...

Usage: 50% (263 leaders)

Satisfaction levels: 81%

Advocate & recommend use: 86%

Any questions?

Stuart Chadwick

Solutions Consultant

info@kineo.com

www.kineo.com

01273 764 070

Vincent O’Donovan,

Head of Group Training &

Development