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Learning Performance Benchmark
PRODUCTS | LEARNING PERFORMANCE BENCHMARK

Learning Performance Benchmark

With the only free, independent, and confidential L&D comparison tool, measure your organization’s performance on the global L&D market, and boost your learning maturity score.
What is the Learning Performance Benchmark?
The Learning Performance Benchmark is a series of questions that will help you reflect on your current learning strategy, highlights areas of improvement and shows you how your organization compares to others.
Learning Performance Benchmark dashboard on device

Complete the Learning Performance Benchmark in 3 simple steps:

LPB Step 1 Register
1. Register an account
We just need a few details to help you to get started. All the information you provide is anonymous and confidential, and it won't cost you anything to create your account.
LPB Step 2 Survey
2. Complete your review
Review your company's current L&D offering, including your organization's vision, strategy, technology and challenges.
LPB Step 3 Results
3. Get your results instantly
After you've completed the review, you'll gain access to a personalized, interactive dashboard.
Take the Benchmark tour!
Watch our video as we walk through the Learning Performance Benchmark portal so you can get started and improve your L&D.
What are the benefits of Benchmarking?
Explore how the Learning Performance Benchmark can bring real change to your organization.
LPB Benefit identify gaps
Identify gaps, wins and growth
Use the Benchmark to align your team on the current state of your L&D — where you’re performing well, areas to improve and how you have progressed over time.

You’ll receive feedback with specific actions to take for continued growth.
LPB Benefit business buy in
Need business buy-in?
The Benchmark offers tangible results with metrics, shown on your own personal dashboard, that you can use to show value and build a business case — based on evidence — for L&D resources and support.
LPB Benefit share results
Results now easier to share
You can now download your Benchmark results into a handy PDF. This new feature allows you to share results with colleagues and stakeholders.
LPB Benefit industry standard
Rich insights - and robust evidence
Drawing on over 20 years’ longitudinal sharing within the learning community, the LPB offers actionable tips to improve your learning strategy, adding value and enhancing organizational performance.
LPB Benefit impact of technology
Understand the impact of technology
The content, infrastructure and digital tools that support your organization's L&D strategy aren't inexpensive. The Benchmark provides data that helps you reflect on the role of your technology tools and their level of utilization.
LPB Benefit peer comparison
Review your learning against your peers’
Clean, easy, and interactive, the Learning Performance Benchmark instantly scores your organization’s learning maturity, trending learning technologies, and significant barriers to effective learning, and compares them to those of your competitors.
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LPB Teams
Benchmark as a team, discover how aligned you are, and identify the areas you need to work on.
Data for good
Your data is used exclusively for research purposes. It’s stored in a GDPR-compliant UK database, because anonymity and confidentiality are of the utmost importance to us.
Ethical Standards of Research
LPB trusted users
Trusted by
Some of the over 10,100 companies who have used the Learning Performance Benchmark to benefit their L&D strategy.

We’ve helped hundreds of L&D professionals advance their organizations’ learning strategies

Public Sector

Hertfordshire County Council

Tapping into today’s consumer learners with fresh insights and practical tips.
Retail

River Island

Creating a cohesive learning experience for one of the UK’s favorite retailers.
Food & Beverage

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company

Accelerating and transforming L&D at one of the largest bottlers for the Coca-Cola Company.
Property

FirstPort Limited

Helping transform a property management firm’s workplace learning culture.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Learning Performance Benchmark?
The Learning Performance Benchmark helps you reflect on your current learning strategy, highlights areas of improvement and shows you how your organization compares to others. Whatever your starting point, our Learning Performance Benchmark analyzes where you are now, where you want to be and how to get there faster.
Why do the Benchmark?
The Benchmark helps you take the next step in becoming a high-performing learning organization. Ensuring your learning strategy is evidence-led and delivers real impact. Completing your Benchmark gives you access to your own personalized results dashboard. Through this, you can explore your organization’s learning strategy by focusing on culture, alignment, digitalization, strategy in practice, learning design and leadership.

We also recommend taking the Benchmark every year to help track your improvement and inform your learning strategy.
Who should take part in the Learning Performance Benchmark?
All learning professionals are encouraged to take part and make time to reflect on how learning helps their business. Especially those that are overseeing a team or department.
How much does it cost?
The Learning Performance Benchmark is free.

It’s the only free, independent and confidential benchmark available to learning and development professionals.
What does the review cover?
We first ask for demographic information such as: organization size, geographic spread and industry. This enables us to build your personalized results and means we can accurately benchmark your L&D strategy against organizations similar to you.

It is then divided into four parts exploring: vision, resources and impact; strategy in practice and culture; technology, tools and access and finally looking at challenges preventing you from getting the most out of your L&D strategy.
How does it work?
There are two main sections. Firstly, a four-part review. Giving you time to reflect on your strategy, shed light on any gaps and identify opportunities for the future.

Then, when your review is complete, you’ll get instant personalized results showing your learning maturity score. As well as clear benchmarks of where your results sit against your peers.
How long does the review take to complete?
Roughly 60 minutes.
Does the review have to be completed in one sitting?
No, participants can save their progress and complete it later.
What data can I expect to see in my results?
A clear, dashboard break-down displaying your learning maturity score, learning maturity stage, six key components (Strategic and business alignment, Employee experience, Environment, Talent and culture, L&D team capabilities, Organizational engagement and Learning impact) and overall benchmark participant trends.

Each page includes interactive graphs with the ability to filter by industry, region, and organization size. As well as insights on how to progress to higher maturity, including links to further reading.
How is my learning maturity score calculated?
Your score is an aggregate of 96 strategic behaviors, measured on a scale of 1–100. It tracks the overall health of your organization's learning strategy, and establishes a baseline for the coming year. In this way, your score indicates not only the impact of your L&D strategy in practice, but also the extent of your digital innovation, and how well your organization is embedding behavioral change.

The learning maturity score has a positive relationship to the four strategic levers of business: Growth, Transformation, Productivity and Profitability.
Are review responses confidential?
All information you provide is anonymous and confidential. We recognize your contribution and treat your data with the respect and dignity it deserves.
What happens to my data?
Your data is stored in a GDPR-compliant UK database. It’s used exclusively for research purposes. You’ll have access to the aggregated data used to produce our reports. All information you provide is anonymous and confidential.