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Pulse of L&D

Introduction

Background and Purpose: Training Industry strives to serve as a resource for learning and development (L&D) professionals. This goal includes providing you with the tools and insights you need, when you need them. This survey is intended to track and understand the rapidly developing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the L&D industry. We will be running this survey weekly throughout the pandemic to understand its continuing impact on learning and development.

Our Promise: Training Industry, Inc. will keep all individual survey data strictly confidential and will only present results in summary format. You will not be identified in any research reports as an outcome of your participation in this survey. Thank you for your valuable contribution to this study!
1.What is the single largest problem that your L&D team is currently facing?
2.Please use the scale below to rate your confidence in your ability to execute your learning and development (L&D) plan as it stands today.
We do not currently have an L&D plan, and we are not planning to develop one.
We are currently in the process of developing or revising our L&D plan.
We have an L&D plan, but I am not confident in our ability to execute it.
We have an L&D plan, and I feel confident we will be able to execute it.
3.Please explain your response:
4.Please rate your current spending in the following training areas as it compares to your spending in the last three months.
Spending less
Spending the same
Spending more
Unsure
N/A
Learning technologies (e.g., authoring, delivery, gaming platforms or LMS)
Learning services (e.g., delivery, administration, content development, technology integration, strategy)
Courses, kits or e-learning libraries
Customer education (e.g., technical end user training, certification or channel training)
5.Please explain your response:
6.Please rate your confidence in the availability of market services to help your L&D team address your current business challenges.
I do not feel confident that there are available market services to help me.
There may be market services to help us, but we do not know how to find them.
We know of market services that could help, but we don't currently have enough budget to use them. 
I feel confident that we can find market services to help us address our business challenges.
We are currently using market services that are helping us address our business challenges.
7.Please explain your response:
8.Please pick the answer choice that best describes the state of your current training programs.
9.Please explain your response:
10.Please pick the answer choice that best describes how current events have affected your future programs.
11.Please explain your response:
12.Please rate your level of clarity regarding the current needs of your stakeholders.
I do not know what my stakeholders need from me right now.
I only have a vague idea of what my stakeholders need from me right now.
I feel fairly confident that I know what my stakeholders need from me right now.
I feel extremely confident that I know what my stakeholders need from me right now.
13.Please explain your response:
14.What percentage of your training is currently being delivered via each of the following methods?(Required.)
15.What other delivery methods are you using (if any)?
16.What percentage of your training was delivered via each of the following methods prior to the coronavirus pandemic?(Required.)
17.Please select the appropriate employee range, industry, and annual revenue that best describe your entire company (not just the training organization you represent)
Number of Employees
Industry
Estimated Annual Revenue
Your entire company or organization:
18.If you would like to receive a copy of the executive summary of these results, please provide your email address below.