Clear Vision Consultation and Training

Increasing the Impact of Training and Development

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand …. Confucius 451 BC

Audience:

This workshop helps individuals who are involved in the training and development initiatives in an organization by giving them a consolidated and cohesive insight into how to create training solutions which reflect in better business results and higher performance.

Objectives:

By the end of this training workshop, each participant will be able to:

• Discuss the competitive challenges companies face and explain how training can help companies deal with these challenges.
• Understand how the role of training has changed
• Realize how business strategy influences the type and amount of training in a company
• Diagnose and solve a transfer of training problem
• Create a work environment that will facilitate transfer of training.
• Describe the steps in the development planning process
• Identify the future trends that are likely to influence training departments and trainers.

Course Outline:

i

Moving from Activity Training to Impact Training

·        Introduction to Employee Training and Development

·        What is Training?

·        Designing Effective Training

·        What is the importance of Training

·        Using Training to deal with competitive challenges

·        Snapshots of Training Practices

·        The Training-for-Activity Trap

·        The Training-for-Impact Approach

·        CASE STUDY

·        Mini Presentations

ii

Strategic Training: Creating Strategic Partnerships with Management

·        Identifying Business Needs and Internal Clients

·        Forming a Collaborative Relationship with Internal Clients

·        Conducting Initial Meetings 

·        The Work Roles of Employees, Managers, and Executives

·        Organizational Characteristics that Influence Training

·        Integration of Business Units

·        Manager, Employee, Training and HR Staff Involvement in Development

·        The Changing Role of Training

·        Training Needs in Different Strategies

·        Models of Organizing the Training Department

·        CASE STUDY

iii

Transfer of Training

·        TOT: The Difference between Life and Death

·        Training Design and the applications of Transfer of Training Theory

·        Self-Management Strategies

·        Work Environment Characteristics Influencing Transfer of Training

·        Climate for Transfer

·        Opportunity to use Learned Capabilities   

·        The Learning Organization Concept

·        CASE STUDY

iv

Employee Development and Special issues to be considered

·        Traditional Training Methods Vs New Technologies in Training

·        Approaches to Employee Development

·        The Development Planning Process

·        Training Issues Resulting from the External Environment

·        Managing Diversity through Diversity Training

·        Training Issues Related to Internal Needs of the Company

·        CASE STUDY

v

Using the Training-for-impact Approach

·        How and where to Begin

·        The Future of Training and Development

·        New Technologies Will Increase in Popularity for Training Delivery

·        Training Department in the future

·        The Interrelationship with other Business Units

·        External Partners and Training

·        Training from a Change Model Perspective

·        Steps in Implementing a New Training and Development Practice