The LPI Capability Map

Self-assessment for modern workplace learning professionals

We’re mapping the essential skills for modern L&D

VIRTUAL CLASSROOM FACILITATION

MARKETING FOR L&D

PERFORMANCE IMPACT ANALYTICS

a total of 24 skill areas that L&D experts say are in demand right now

How do you measure up?

Take the LPI Capability Map self-assessment to:

  • Identify your strengths and skills gaps in critical L&D areas such as hybrid learning, project management, data analytics and more.

  • Compare results against your peers in learning and development.

  • Understand what’s needed to build future capability.

  • Get invaluable metrics for PDP and career planning.

  • Assess your entire team* for coverage of expected L&D skills. Use this as a heat-map of departmental strengths and weaknesses compared to industry averages.

Now there’s a better way to match your L&D skills with the best jobs. Register with Blue Eskimo and upload your Capability Map self-assessment along with your CV for pinpoint accurate job-matching.

Who is using the LPI Capability Map?

The LPI Capability Map is helping L&D professionals assess their current skills and compare them against their peers in learning and development. The map shows where they are strongest and where they can make improvements, both invaluable metrics for PDP and career planning.

Learning Managers are assessing their entire team for coverage of expected L&D skills – using the heat-map reports of departmental strengths and weaknesses compared to industry averages. Team assessment is a consulting-led engagement.
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Blue Eskimo is the LPI’s preferred and accredited recruitment partner, specialising in L&D opportunities. Blue Eskimo uses the Capability Map to specify skill levels for both recruiters and job applicants, enabling more accurate matching. Capability Map self-assessment are uploaded along with CVs.

Buyers of learning services are insisting that externally-supplied trainers and L&D contractors have been assessed with the Capability Map. To ensure that people with the relevant skills are deployed to the projects that need them, simply share this page with your suppliers to start them on the journey.

Put your consultants and contractors through the Capability Map to strengthen your proposition when tendering for projects.
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The data contained within the Capability Map gives you a unique view into the skills held by learning professionals today. The LPI believes this to be the largest view of an L&D professional’s skills against an industry standard.
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Thousands of learning professionals from over 90 countries representing over 65 industries have self-assessed using the LPI Capability Map

how was it developed?

First launched in 2012, with revisions in 2018 and 2022, the LPI Capability Map is helping thousands of individuals and teams identify their strengths and skills gaps, and understand what is needed to build future capability.

Available online 24/7, free for individual use, and regularly updated, the LPI Capability Map is the ultimate tool to help L&D people do their jobs better and prime them for success in this rapidly changing business world.

The individual assessment areas were developed by leading international experts in their respective fields of learning using the latest research, frameworks and real-world experience. These individual areas were normalised for terminology usage and then combined to form the LPI Capability Map. The final design has been tested and peer-reviewed collaboratively over several iterations.

The LPI Capability Map helps L&D professionals and teams understand where their skills gaps lie and how to plan for future success.

Download the LPI Capability Map Guide

what are we learning from the data?

The LPI Capability Map defines the 24 essential skills for modern, effective and future-ready L&D teams. Since its launch, we’ve been looking at how the skills of L&D professionals around the world are shifting.

From self-assessment data gathered from learning professionals, the highest and lowest skills are showing us what L&D is good at and where it needs to focus.