Building Communities of Practice with the Met Office

The Met Office is the national meteorological service for the UK. They provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, helping people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

They use a Talent Experience platform to support their people in a variety of ways. Along with traditional lessons, learners participate in on-the-job learning with assessments along the way, as well as ensuring an ongoing programme of essential compliance training and professional skills development is provided.

The operational meteorology training service the People development team lead is very highly regarded worldwide, and the Met Office People Development team often train staff from other national meteorological organisations and teach modules for meteorology courses, in collaboration with their academic partners such as the University of Reading in the UK, as well as providing training for organisations in industry sectors that include gas, oil, energy and retail.

Using Totara Learn to facilitate their learning and development needs, the Met Office also use Totara Engage as a platform to enable in-the-flow of work learning for their communities of practice and Totara Perform to capture competency data to drive personal development and evidence-based decision making for L&D strategies.

Join Malcolm Taylor, Senior People Development Manager, to see how the Met Office:

Are using Totara to successfully train weather forecasters and develop their people
Have built competency frameworks within Totara perform software
Have developed communities of practice learning using Totara Engage