Camarillo City Council
AGENDA REPORT
Date: June 26, 2024
To: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
From: Greg Ramirez, City Manager
Submitted by: Carmen Nichols, Assistant City Manager
Subject: Agreement with LinkedIn Learning – Learning Enterprise Program (LEP)
BACKGROUND
Employee training and development play a crucial role in all organizations. By enhancing employee confidence, efficiency, and productivity, training programs encourage staff to contribute effectively. Continuous learning fosters innovation and encourages employees to share fresh ideas. City staff are currently working on the development of a comprehensive Training and Development Program including technical, supervisory, leadership, and technological training to:
•Increase employee performance and productivity
•Identifying and strengthen areas of opportunity
•Creating and maintaining consistency throughout the team •Increasing employee engagement, morale, and satisfaction •Creating opportunities to learn new skills and technology The LinkedIn Learning Enterprise Program (LEP) is an on-line on demand training platform that provides a wide selection of training. Although the Program will be implemented this fall, staff is seeking to take advantage of current pricing for the next three years.
DISCUSSION
Over the past several months City employees representing all divisions across the organization collaborated to provide feedback on training and development opportunities that can be made available to all City staff. The City Manager’s Office gathered all the input and is in the process of finalizing a comprehensive Training and Development Plan, which will serve as a repository of training accessible to employees, both on a mandatory and volunteered basis. The training will vary, from internal informational videos about the City’s policies and procedures, to in-person sessions on supervisory, technical, technological, and leadership skills.
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Over the next few months, staff will begin deployment of the Training and Development Plan, which includes providing on-demand readily accessible online training alternatives for all employees. To achieve this objective, City staff is recommending securing the services of LinkedIn Learning, an online platform that offers educational courses to help its users develop skills for professional growth. Through this agreement, LinkedIn Learning will provide City employees with access to their Learning Enterprise Program, which includes unlimited access to over 22,000 video-based courses developed by over 2,600 industry experts recruited from around the world. The content can be personalized to each individual employee’s career path and goals or curated to target a group of employees based on the area of expertise. Additionally, LinkedIn Learning is constantly refreshing their content and adding new classes, publishing over 50 new courses a week.
In addition to the digital library, LinkedIn Learning provides the following tools:
•Career Goal Setting: learners can see relevant career development content based on their career goals.
•Role Guides: learners can navigate career paths and adjust those career paths based on their own goals or organizational needs.
•Skill Evaluations: learners can take assessments to understand skill proficiency and gaps to guide learning and content recommendations.
•Promote internal mobility by surfacing job opportunities based on career goals. The City can create career paths that will train staff and prepare them for their next career move.
•The City can upload original content created internally into the LinkedIn Learning hub to keep all training in a single platform.
Accessing the services provided by LinkedIn helps employees adapt to a rapidly changing work environment and stay up to date on the latest industry trends. Offering development opportunities demonstrates the organization’s investment in its employees’ growth and career progression, leading to higher levels of engagement, job satisfaction, and ultimately, retention. Additionally, training can foster a culture of innovation and creativity by encouraging employees to think critically, problem-solve and explore new ideas and approaches. Lastly, by providing training and development opportunities, organizations can identify potential future leaders, ensuring smooth transitions and continuity in key roles.
LinkedIn Learning will provide 160 licenses for City employees to access their learning hub for three-years. The cost is broken down per year as follows:
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The total for the three-year contract will be $37,048. The City is also requesting an additional contingency of $5,952 (approximately 15 percent) be included in the case that additional licenses are required during the life of the contract.
Year 1 $7,872.00
Year 2 $12,251.20
Year 3 $16,924.80
Subtotal $37,048.00
Contingency (approx.
15 percent)
$5,952.00
Total $43,000.00
FISCAL IMPACT
Funds for the City’s agreement with LinkedIn Learning for the Learning Enterprise Program are included in Human Resources Administrative Account No. 101-1601- 418.32-01.
RECOMMENDATION
1. Authorize the City Manager to Execute CC Agreement No. 2024-144 with LinkedIn Learning for the Learning Enterprise Program in the amount of $37,048 with a contingency of $5,952 (15 percent).
ATTACHMENTS
1. Order Form for City of Camarillo (CC Agreement No. 2024-144) REFERENCE MATERIALS – AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW AT CITY HALL None