The seminar will highlight:

• An understanding of business strategy on the organizational and personal impact on the business
• Ensuring that proposed training and development programs are relevant to the strategic direction of the business to support efficient planned expenditure
• Reviewing lean processes and alternative organizational development methods
• Ensuring efficient value from external learning service providers: (VFM)
• The management of the training budget and potential compromises impacting on the ‘training spend’
• Demonstrating that ROI has been achieved

Organizational Impact:

With delegates attending this seminar the organization will benefit by:

• Gaining more strategically OD focused personnel
• Negotiate and manage external learning providers more effectively
• Provide solutions to organizational development deficiencies
• Pro-actively develop value for money strategies to training
• Applying lean approaches to ensure effectiveness and reduce waste
• Conduct ROI and VFM for organizational approval

Personal Impact:

As a delegate attending this seminar you will:

• Gain increased knowledge of strategic organizational development
• Learn cost effective ways for development initiatives
• Develop alternative ways for developing others
• Gain deeper awareness of ROI and VFM techniques
• Increase your confidence and approach when managing external providers
• Utilize techniques to ensure plans and procedures are effective and efficient

This seminar is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit those who:

• Have direct responsibility for the training budget within the organization and wish to gain greater effectiveness and efficiency in managing this
• Have a strategic overview of the business and who may also be responsible for initiating training programs  or authorizing expenditure for training and wish to gain a greater understanding of training budget formulation and ROI
• Are responsible for Human Resource / Organizational Development and the planning and delivery of training programs at a strategic level
• Are responsible for the planning and implementation of training programs at an operational level

The seminar will utilize a variety of adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This will include highly interactive group and individual activities, targeted case studies and relevant practical exercises. This will be facilitated learning through direct input, discussion and encouragement to test and critically appraise theories, models and concepts.

Aligning Training to Business Strategy

• Defining and developing your Organizational Development Strategy
• Aligning training and development to meet business objectives
• Sustainability of development: need for long-term planning for future skills and competences
• Competency strategy and development
• Overview of Talent and Succession planning
• Key Evaluation models and their importance in business alignment

Demonstrating Efficient ROI and VFM

• LEAN organization and processes
• Efficient budget planning, and forecasting strategies
• Understanding Cost / Benefit Analysis impact
• Validating the ROI: process and methods
• Optimize cost-effective development strategies
• Preparing a Business Case for ROI and VFM

Optimizing Effective Development and VFM

• Alternative cost-effective training and development interventions
• Maximizing internal development provision
• Managing the external Learning Service Provider
• Ensure maximum VFM (value for money) through powerful negotiation
• Contractual considerations when using external provision
• Preparing your business case for development planning
• Summary and Next Steps

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.