Base your organisation's learning and development strategy on a sound training management framework.
What is your policy and process for identifying training and development needs, then sourcing and delivering the best learning solutions?
Scenario 1
Your staff decide what they would like to do, then obtain approval and participate in that training.
Scenario 2
Your organisation has a structured training management framework where you:
- Define your mission and customers
- Create the structures, roles and functions required to best carry out that mission and serve your customers
- Identify the skills and attributes needed by staff to perform those functions at the required level
- Measure the current level of skills of those people and any gaps between desired and actual levels
- Prioritise the importance of each skills gap, based on your organisational values, mission, business plan, impact and return on investment
- Identify, source and deliver prioritised training or non-training (e.g. structural) solutions that best meet the needs of the organisation
- Evaluate and measure the actual application and impact of the solutions, and continuously re-visit and continue the learning and improvement cycle
Implement a training management framework to maximise the return on your training investment
Under Scenario 1 shown above, there is no strategic approach or focus on the needs of the organisation, so your training dollar may be largely wasted. There may be some individual personal development and associated satisfaction, but positive impact on your organisation may be coincidental or non-existent. No organisation can afford to waste resources on unplanned training.
Under Scenario 2 shown above, your training dollar is spent on clearly identified priorities, for the benefit of your organisation. The individual participants also benefit directly from the targeted learning, and can see how their development directly links to and contributes to the mission and performance of the organisation. The individual and the organisation are learning, developing and performing together!
Tailor a training management framework to suit your needs
Different organisations will be at different stages of development and organisational maturity, so you may need specific solutions for your situation. ProFocus people have the training, experience and expertise to work with you to provide the best training management framework and processes to suit your needs.
Our background in corporate human resources management, consulting to local government, and training and coaching across all types of organisations, means that you will get the best solutions to support your people, your goals and objectives.