Learning Consortiums:
Quality, Cost-Effective Team Learning for Mid- to Small-Sized Firms
Share best-practices. Benchmark against organizations inside and outside of your industry. Apply Cornell ILR’s leading edge research to your firm’s challenges. Build a support network of HR executives around the world. Partner with us to form a strategic Learning Consortium to help your HR organization more efficiently and effectively deliver business results—regardless of your company size.
Learning Consortiums are team-based, action learning executive education programs for 2-5 participating firms. These non-competing firms have identified shared HR challenges and a need to address them with targeted training.
The consortium option:
- Allows companies to benefit from focused, quality strategic HR education—combining cutting-edge faculty theories and models with the exchange of best practices among companies facing similar HR issues.
- Increases the transfer of training and knowledge back to the workplace. Consortium teams work on existing company issues, are encouraged to present solutions, and receive immediate feedback and suggestions from other consortium participants and faculty.
- Improves the overall effectiveness of your HR organization and change efforts. Our team training format helps create a support network within participating organizations, making team members champions for their change efforts back in the office.
- Lowers training costs by distributing the cost of custom program development and delivery across several organizations.
Course Content to Fit Your Needs
Consortium members work with our faculty and staff to design an appropriate curriculum to suit their organizations’ needs. Participating organizations decide how best to meet those needs by customizing the course curriculum, length, location and format. Prior consortiums have included site and facility tours to see best practices in action, guest lectures by noted experts from industry, academia and government, and participation by human resources and line executives together.