What do you do if your e-learning performance evaluations are not aligned with organizational goals?

To address misalignment between e-learning performance evaluations and organizational goals, it's essential to review and refine evaluation criteria, involve stakeholders, and establish feedback mechanisms for iterative improvement.

Realign could be a strategy to align myself with broad organizational perspectives. One way of executing this strategy is to find out the organizational goal and then set the personal goal of enrolling in e-learning courses.

Realign Goals: Connect the dots! Analyze current learning objectives and compare them to overarching organizational goals. Talk to stakeholders to understand their needs, then revise the program to ensure future learning activities directly support achieving those goals. Content Audit: Is your e-learning content relevant and fresh? Conduct a thorough review to ensure it equips learners with the knowledge and skills they need to achieve the organization's objectives. Refresh or revamp content as needed to maximize its impact. Measure What Matters: Are you assessing the right things? Update your evaluations to accurately gauge if the learning translates into demonstrably improved job performance aligned with organizational needs.

In the ever-changing business landscape, it's a very common occurrence that L&D initiatives become less relevant to newer company objectives and goals. Ideally, much of your content will be "evergreen" and will be able to deliver impact with regular updates despite a changing business environment (think Leadership, Communication, etc.). That said, all L&D professionals should be thinking about how the training programs they're implementing are delivering value to the business and helping it achieve its goals. This means that as the business focus changes, so must the training being delivered by L&D, sometimes more fundamentally and sometimes less.

The contents of the course should be assessed before enrolling. This assessment should be carefully cross-checked with the organizational goals. That will help us to make a good alignment.

Metrics should be periodically updated to adapt to the changing business environment in the VUCA world. And at the same time, metrics should depict a clear picture of learning progress.

Learners engage in e-learning programs when they are involved in the process. At the same time, the content should offer insights that could resolve their professional challenges.

The review should be done after facilitating the feedback from the respondents. Not all feedback can be adaptable. However, the adaptation should be done to the learning goals.