Most L&D reports look the same: enrollments, completion rates, average quiz scores, and a satisfaction rating out of five. Leadership skims the slide, says "good work," and moves on to the next agenda item. However, learning analytics can help you move beyond basic reporting.
That reaction is not a sign that executives do not care about learning. It is a sign that the report answered a question nobody in the room was asking. Completion data tells leaders what L&D did. It rarely tells them what changed in the business because of it. In fact, implementing learning analytics provides leaders with actionable insights about real change.
Building a learning analytics practice that leadership reads, and acts on, means shifting from activity reporting to decision support. Here is how to make that shift without a data science team.
Completion rates are useful inside L&D. They tell program owners where learners drop off, which modules need redesign, and whether a rollout reached its audience.
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