This exciting and engaging training course explores the critical role that people development plays in moving a business forward and in the achievement of personal, team, departmental and organizational goals and objectives. Delegates will also explore how they can develop and promote the role of the training function within their organization.

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Describe the role of training within an organization
• Plan a transition from training to organizational development
• Link training to organizational goals
• Conduct an effective training needs analysis
• Develop a training strategy
• Identify learning solutions
• Evaluate training
• Promote value added training

• All Training Managers and Professionals
• Training Coordinators
• Senior Training Administrators
• Training Designers and Developers
• Those who have a responsibility for training others
• Those who wish to move into training management
• HR Management and Professionals with an interest in training
• Line Managers with an interest in training

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

DAY 1:

Business Strategy and Training

• Introduction to the course and individuals
• Objectives
• Introduction to training, development and learning
• So why do we need to train anyway
• How businesses set their strategy
• The importance of aligning training strategy
• The role of training in supporting business strategy
• Champions and sponsors
• Defining the training function

DAY 2:

Developing a Focused Training Solution

• The Systematic Training Cycle
• Learning and performance objectives
• Personality and Learning Styles
• Different learning methods – e-learning to classroom
• Developing learning solutions and blended learning
• Training design principles
• Selecting the trainer
• Prioritizing training needs
• Validation and Evaluation

DAY 3:

The Training Strategy

• Research and analysis – TNA
• Training needs analysis
• Developing your customer base
• Building a training strategy
• Presenting strategy for impact
• Organizations and Change – driving the need for training
• Responding to organizational change
• Workshop – Training project to support major cultural change

DAY 4:

Building the Value of Training

• The providers of training
• Developing partnerships and suppliers
• Pilot programs for Validation
• Evaluation for ROI
• Case Study - Evaluation and measuring Return on Investment
• Evaluation methods
• Evaluating what? Perceptions or reality
• Quality Control and Evaluation
• Tests and Assessments

DAY 5:

Developing Your Training Strategy

• Creating the training plan
• Creating a cost budget
• The use of Service Level Agreements
• Reporting training activities against plan
• Skills practice on personal case studies
• Peer support in developing ideas
• Post seminar peer network support
• Action planning
• Key learning and personal development plans
• Issue of course certificate

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.