Learner Pathways
Design and Delivery of role-based learning pathways for a specialist materials manufacturer
Client Background:
A specialist organisation operating within the advanced materials manufacturing sector needed to establish a clear, structured approach to learning and capability development across the business.
With a growing workforce operating across distinct technical and professional roles, the organisation required a way to define what good looked like in each role, support progression and ensure learning was aligned to both current and future capability needs.
The organisation also needed a learning platform that could support structured pathways across roles, rather than isolated courses or content libraries.
The Challenge
The client faced a number of interconnected challenges as the organisation continued to evolve.
Key challenges included:
- Lack of defined role expectations
- Job families and roles existed, but there was no consistent framework outlining the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to perform effectively or progress.
- Inconsistent learning across roles
- Learning was ad hoc and uneven, making it difficult to ensure consistency, quality or confidence across teams.
- Complex technical subject matter
- Much of the organisation’s expertise sat with subject matter experts, whose knowledge needed to be translated into structured, accessible learning.
- No clear path for onboarding or career progression
- Employees lacked visibility of what learning was relevant to their role and what development looked like over time.
Our Approach
Evolved Learning Solutions partnered with the organisation to design a learning model that connected roles, capability and learning delivery.
Our approach focused on building strong foundations before moving into content and platform implementation.
This included:
- Role and job family consultation
- Working closely with the client to understand the organisation’s job families, role expectations and future capability needs.
- Competency framework and skills mapping
- Designing a competency framework and skills map that clearly defined the knowledge, skills and behaviours required across roles and levels.
- Learning pathway design
- Defining structured learner pathways for each role, creating clear progression routes and making learning purposeful and relevant.
- Subject matter expert engagement
- Consulting with subject matter experts to define learning objectives, gather requirements and ensure technical accuracy and credibility.
The Solution
The outcome was a structured, role-based learning framework supported by a learning platform designed around learner journeys rather than isolated content.
The solution included:
- A clearly defined competency framework across job families
- Role-specific learning pathways aligned to capability and progression
- Learning objectives grounded in real technical and operational requirements
- A learning platform configured to support structured pathways and visibility
- A scalable approach that could evolve as roles and technologies changed
- This provided the organisation with a clear, consistent foundation for learning and development.
The Impact
- Clear expectations across roles, giving employees confidence in what was required to perform and progress
- Consistent, structured learning pathways aligned to organisational capability needs
- Improved use of subject matter expertise, translated into accessible, usable learning
- A learning platform that supported progression, not just content delivery
- A scalable learning model capable of supporting future growth and role evolution
