Open Courses

Understanding future business needs

• Clarifying the organisation’s strategy, vision, values and goals to plan training and development
• Understanding the longer-term challenges and requirements of the organisation
• Identifying required resources and cost
• Designing learning objectives, quality standards and measures for departments and teams

Assuring career readiness

• The learning process and learning curve
• Employee engagement: the benefits of getting it right
• The problems associated with lack of engagement 
• The range of learning methods and accelerated learning in practice
• Flexibility in the training environment 

Understanding the costs and benefits

• Costing and benchmarking training events
• Benefits of external and internal provision
• Workplace environmental issues
• Maintaining a focus on career development culture

Succession planning and career development

• The difference between succession planning, talent management and career path
• Continuous professional development – what we need to do to keep up
• Win-win situation for the organisations and the individual
• Current and future talent trends

Evaluation techniques

• Evaluating training before, during and after events
  • Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model
  • Modern interventions and trends
• Measuring the effect of training, and its changes to skills, experience and behaviours