Developing a Training Strategy

Overview
Does your organisation see training and development as a 'support service' or does it recognise the function as a business partner that builds strategic, value-added capabilities? This highly participative course will provide you with a guide that will help you to develop a strategic approach to training and development within your organisation.
Developing and training people is seen as essential by many organisations - a major investment and a vital ingredient for future success. Yet, how many organisations have a training strategy? How many can point to their strategic training objectives and show how they will contribute to the delivery of the organisation's goals?
For those responsible for training, thinking strategically means thinking beyond the confines of the training function to ensure that their contribution supports the strategy and goals of the organisation. It means revisiting current practice and identifying the real contribution that training can make as part of an integrated approach to people management. It means influencing and being influenced by real business priorities.

Who Should Attend?

• Learning , training and development professionals
• HR Managers and others with responsibility for, or input to training strategy

Course Objectives


This course will enable you to:

• Understand and apply strategic thinking to the management of training and development.
• Understand the difference between strategic and operational planning.
• Apply a clear methodology in producing a training strategy.
• Integrate training into a wider HR strategy.
• Identify the key factors impacting on training strategy
• Improve the evaluation of the impact of training.
• Create the right profile of training within the organisation
• Secure the commitment of the organisation to the training function

Focus

Thinking Strategically

• The nature of strategy
• Accounting for uncertainty
• Strategic management
• The emerging role of HR and Training
• Becoming a true business partner
• Building strategic, value-added capabilities

Strategic Training and Development

• What a training strategy looks like
• Training strategy in the business context
• Creating the vision
• Strategy in relation to where you are now
• Potential obstacles to a strategic approach to training

Developing a Strategic Approach

• Three basic models of managing training
• A practical guide to the formulation of a training strategy
• Strategic, tactical and operational links to areas of HR
• Focus on strategic value

Implementation Issues

• The role of competency frameworks
• Gaining commitment and support from the business
• Monitoring delivery of the strategy
• Case studies on strategic approaches