Developing: refers to the range of formal learning and informal peer-to-peer learning that is provided to employees to increase their performance and capabilities on-the-job.

One of the best ways to align learning to business goals is to create a governance process to align corporate learning to the business priorities of the organization. Five functions of this governance function include:

1. Identify and prioritize current and future learning needs:
   • Ask yourself what are the company's learning needs in relation to business strategies?
   • What new skills do employees need to perform their jobs?
2. Link learning to these key business strategies:
   • What are the investment priorities of the business?
   • How should learning/training be linked to these business strategies?
3. Ensure consistent design, development, delivery and measurement:
   • Understand and discuss with any business partner what are the procedures, processes and standards to determine if training is the best solution to a business issue.
   • Propose a range of options to meet business issue needs.
4. Create a vision, mission statement for corporate learning:
   • Address issues such as what is the organization's learning philosophy.
   • Does the CEO endorse a lifelong learning philosophy?
5. Review outcomes in investment in learning:
   • Evaluate benchmark investments against actual investment of your company. You can find benchmarks of your investment in learning ranked against peer companies at www.astd.org.
   • Agree as a senior executive team how learning investment will be evaluated in terms of employee retention, productivity, and achievement of business goals.

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