| Over the past twelve months much of the UK | | | | focusing on in 2010? 42% of respondents thought that |
| economy has been hit, to a greater or lesser degree, | | | | leadership development should be the focus and 60% |
| by the downturn of the global economy. Budgets have | | | | of respondents thought that team development should |
| been slashed, people laid off and companies have had | | | | be the focus |
| to re-appraise (cut back?) on their training plans. Like | | | | 4. What areas of learning and development do you |
| many other companies Call of the Wild has also had | | | | see as essential to focus on post-recession? 51.1% of |
| to carefully look at its business models and client base | | | | respondents thought that leadership development |
| to see how we can come out of the recession as a | | | | should be the focus and 81.1% of respondents thought |
| leading player in the management training industry. | | | | tha team development should be the focus |
| To this end, during the third quarter of 2009 the | | | | 5. Which delivery methods are you considering using in |
| directors of Call of the Wild held a series of executive | | | | 2010? 63.6% of respondents said that they would be |
| meetings to discuss budgeting for 2010 and to try and | | | | considering Workshop/Programme on site and 54.5% |
| anticipate what effect the current worldwide financial | | | | said they would consider E-learning. |
| crisis may have on the training and development plans | | | | The response rate was considerably higher than |
| of our clients. One of the outcomes of these meetings | | | | expected with 17.4% of those e-mailed replying. The |
| was to ask our clients directly what their plans, in | | | | results of the survey illustrated that the crisis has |
| terms of training, were for 2010. | | | | indeed had a detrimental effect on L&D budgets |
| We came up with a short customer survey which | | | | for 2009 and 2010. However, it was extremely |
| included four of the following questions. The responses | | | | encouraging to see that the large majority of |
| are included after the question. | | | | respondents thought that the main areas of focus for |
| 1. Has the current recession had an impact on your | | | | L&D for 2010 and Post Recession should be |
| learning and development budget for 2009? 78.7 % of | | | | Leadership and Team Development. |
| respondents thought that the recession had a negative | | | | What is obvious is that our clients see that great |
| effect on L&D budgets | | | | leadership and teamwork is even more important in |
| 2. Will the current recession have an impact on your | | | | the current financial climate, where more needs to be |
| learning and development budget for 2010? 60.5 % of | | | | done with less resource. It appears that they are using |
| respondents thought that the recession had a | | | | the current situation as an opportunity to think carefully |
| negative effect on L&D budgets | | | | about what areas of L&D are really important to |
| 3. What areas of learning and development will you be | | | | their organisations. |