“Workshop” is one of those words L&D uses too casually. A genuine workshop brings stakeholders together to solve, build, or decide something. A presentation with a few questions and a whiteboard doesn’t qualify. Infopro Learning’s Managed Learning Services (MLS) transformation workshop is the first kind. As part of our managed learning transformation services, it’s a half-day session with your leadership team, built around an honest look at six dimensions of your learning operation. The session ends with a practical roadmap that’s yours to keep, no matter what you decide next.

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What Happens During Infopro Learning’s MLS Transformation Workshop?

We run this as a half-day working session, not a demo and not a slide deck about our capabilities. The whole thing centers on one question: Where does your learning operation actually stand today, and what would it take to shift it?

You must send your leadership team to this engagement, rather than a representative who will have to report back later. The people managing ticket queues, content backlogs, and budget challenges need to be in the room—because that’s how you get an honest diagnosis instead of a polite one.

What Are the Six Dimensions We Assess?

With managed learning transformation services, we score your operation across six areas: people, process, technology, data, learning design, and governance. Most leadership teams have never sat down and rated themselves across all six at once, and that’s usually exactly where the surprises show up.

Each of these involves an obvious question rather than a checklist:

  • People: Is there an appropriate mix of people and skills within the team, or does the team lack capacity?
  • Process: Is there any link between demand planning and the business, or is the team just responding all the time?
  • Technology: Is there data exchange between the systems, or is each system working in isolation?
  • Data: Can you see skills develop in real time, or are completion rates the only signal you get?
  • Learning Design: Are you building capability paths for specific roles, or running a single program that fits no one particularly well?
  • Governance: Are decisions clear about who owns what, or does everything eventually land on someone’s desk to sort out?

What we typically face doesn’t align with what was expected by whoever walked into the situation. The “technology problem,” for example, is sometimes just a governance issue that was never named. The same applies to the statement “we lack the capacity,” which is often traced back to a process that was never redesigned.

What Do You Walk Away With?

Managed learning transformation services give you four things, regardless of what happens after the workshop. A documented assessment across all six dimensions. Two to three opportunity areas we think matter most, each with a value estimate attached. An analysis of how ready your systems and data are for connected, compounding intelligence, and a phased roadmap with quick wins and milestones mapped out.

None of this is a boilerplate. The opportunity areas we flag are specific to what we find in your operation that day, with numbers behind them, not a generic best-practices list we hand to everyone.

What This Workshop Isn’t

It’s not a commitment, and we don’t run it like one. The point is to figure out whether this is the right fit. Some teams leave and execute the roadmap with us. Some take it and run with it on their own. Both are fine outcomes as far as we’re concerned, because the assessment and the roadmap belong to you either way.

It’s also not something you need to prep for—no data extracts, no pre-reads, no homework beforehand. We built the six-dimension framework to build on what your leadership team already knows, which is why we want them in the room rather than having them sit through a pitch aimed at them.

Who Should Be in the Room?

Managed learning transformation services bring together the right stakeholders to drive meaningful change across the six key areas. That usually means your L&D or learning operations leader, whoever’s responsible for the learning technology stack, and at least one person who feels the budget pressure directly, whether that’s a CLO, an HR leader, or someone from finance. If your organization has something underway around skills or AI strategy, bring whoever is driving it, too.

Are You Ready to See Where Your Learning Operation Stands?

If your L&D team is facing the same cycle of flat budgets, rising demand, and stretched capacity, the workshop is a simple way to break it down and identify what needs to change. Six dimensions, half a day, and a roadmap you can use whether you move forward or not.

If you’re weighing whether MLS is even the right move before you get to that conversation, our guide, The CLO’s Guide to Managed Learning Services for First-Time Buyers, breaks down what MLS actually is, where traditional models fall short, and what an intelligence-powered approach changes for your organization.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

  • remove What is a managed learning services transformation?
    A managed learning services transformation is the process of improving how an organization designs, delivers, operates, and measures its learning function through a more strategic operating model.
  • add What does an MLS transformation workshop include?
    An MLS transformation workshop typically evaluates the current learning operating model, identifies capability and process gaps, assesses technology and governance, and develops a prioritized roadmap for improving learning operations.
  • add What are the six dimensions of a managed learning services assessment?
    A six-dimension assessment examines the critical components of a learning operation to identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities for transformation. The specific dimensions can vary by assessment framework and organizational priorities.
  • add How do you evaluate a managed learning services provider?
    Organizations should evaluate an MLS provider based on strategic capability, learning expertise, technology, scalability, governance, service delivery, measurement, and demonstrated business outcomes. Relevant experience within the organization's industry should also be considered.

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