L&D Playbook
New L&D Role?
Here’s Your 6-Month Plan
Hitting the ground running isn’t about doing everything. It’s doing the right things, in the right order, and prioritising where you add the most value.
This playbook combines practical advice from industry experts, lessons from 250+ L&D teams and interviews with people working in real L&D roles.

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What’s in this guide?
Seven chapters, taking you through seven challenges, and helping you do three key things:
Understand the business
Get closer to strategy and uncover challenges, helping you understand where the business is, where it wants to be, and which problems need to be solved to get there.
Build credibility
Dive into how you can position L&D in a business, by forging relationships with stakeholders, building on teams strengths, and managing change effectively.
Deliver strategy
Learn how to create and communicate your strategy effectively (so that others are invested in making it happen) and get realistic advice on approaching impact in those early months.
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Inside the playbook, you’ll work through:
- Understanding the business
- Uncovering prioritising problems
- Building credibility early
- Understanding your team
- Managing change
- Communicating your strategy
- Measuring what matters
With frameworks and advice from industry experts, real learning professionals, and lessons from 250+ L&D teams.