You will examine the critical components and strategies to ensure that organizational learning and performance initiatives are linked to business needs and provide measurable results. Assess the learning organization through a series of highly interactive applications.
This program is facilitated by Michael Nolan, President of FKA, or a senior staff member with executive learning management experience.
Who should attend:
Learning managers and directors, managers of human resources, and line managers who are responsible for the planning, designing and delivery of learning.
Anyone with budget responsibilities for learning, whether you have limited or extensive experience in the learning field
Key Benefits:
Achieve performance and results from your learning initiatives.
Link learning to business goals and measurable bottom-line results.
Build a best practices portfolio of strategies and approaches.
Evaluate learning investment with ROI (return-on-investment) analysis.
Develop evaluation strategies and post-learning support initiatives for increased back-on-the-job performance.
Identify strategies to establish and increase senior management support for learning and its organizational value.
Benchmark your learning organization against Fortune 500 companies.
Receive a comprehensive course manual, packed with job aids, checklists, decision tables and reference materials that address your key challenges.
Workshop Objectives:
Identify roles and responsibilities in the learning organization in order to establish the required partnership between learning and performance improvement professionals and line managers.
Examine the instructional design and development cycle to ensure performance-based learning is achieved.
Analyze performance problems in order to identify learning and non-learning needs.
Link learning initiatives to business needs.
Examine the components of a learning strategy plan.
Plan and manage learning budgets and initiatives.
Use cost methods for evaluating learning investments, including ROI.
Select and manage external resources.
Staff, manage, assess and develop internal learning resources.
Examine critical components of effective learning implementation.
Identify evaluation strategies for measuring the effectiveness of learning initiatives.
Reinforce and integrate learning transfer and post learning program support.
Examine the key challenges facing the learning manager.
Course Outline:
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Examine the evolving role of learning in performance improvement.
45 questions learning managers ask most frequently.
3 dynamic approaches to learning and consulting.
Identify differences between education, learning and development.
Explore competency standards for managers, instructors and designers.
INTEGRATING LEARNING TO BUSINESS NEEDS
Link learning with business goals and needs to ensure results-oriented learning.
Link performance and productivity measures to learning.
Make decisions to support learning and identify the 4 types of needs.
THE LEARNING PROCESS AND NEEDS IDENTIFICATION
Identify the major phases of Instructional Systems Design.
7 reasons to conduct a performance analysis and steps for validation.
Explore the process: 10 data collection tools and methods; 7 key issues in needs identification; develop a preliminary learning plan.
Performance problems: 11 key questions, 12 causes and solutions.
LEARNING PROJECTS, BUDGETS AND IMPLEMENTATION
Measure the benefits of learning.
Gain senior management support and approval for learning.
Review industry-standards ratios for development and delivery.
Build a program budget - costing models and checklists for critical elements.
39-point checklist to eliminate surprises and costly design mistakes.
18-point checklist for managing design and delivery.
Determine how to select the right instructional methodology.
Evaluate your learning programs from Level 1 to Level 4.
Examine the barriers to learning transfer and develop post-learning support strategies.
40-point checklist for more effective course administration.
Ensure principles of learning are integrated into design and delivery.
Measure excellence in instruction using key performance indicators.
Special Bonus:
SPECIAL VALUE-ADDED FEATURES
In addition to your participant manual, you will receive:
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