Increasing the Impact of Training and Development

Increasing the Impact of Training and Development

OBJECTIVES:

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

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

Course Outline:

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

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

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

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

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

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

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.