--- title: "The Business of Learning: Top 5 Things Your CEO Wants From Your Learning Capability" description: What do CEOs want from learning departments? How can you run your learning capability like a business? --- [![](https://blog.performdev.com/hs-fs/file-387051371-png/images/logo-1.png)](http://www.performdev.com//) # Blog ## [The Business of Learning: Top 5 Things Your CEO Wants From Your Learning Capability](https://blog.performdev.com/top-5-things-your-ceo-wants-from-your-learning-program) Posted by [Amanda Holm](https://blog.performdev.com/author/amanda-holm) on May 2, 2014 9:12:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ### Based on research, what do top executives value? 1. **Performance **- CEO’s don’t value learning they value the increased performance that learning can bring. 2. **Business Results, not Learning Results **- Instead of measuring learning, measure the results learning brings. Skills and knowledge are the fuel that takes the business where it needs to go. 3. **Drive top business initiatives** - Most businesses have a small number of top-priority initiatives each year. Demonstrating how learning helps drive those initiatives creates a clear picture of how you are driving value. 4. **Manage your demand and supply chain -** Business needs change over the course of the year, and business expect departments to be responsive. Planning for your learning demand and having a supply chain in place to respond to change helps guarantee to you will drive business goals. 5. **Return on Investment** –Measuring the return on the investment in learning programs validates why it is important to build the skills and knowledge of the organization. PDG has a number of white papers and case studies with examples of programs that drove top business goals for our clients. 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