Workshop on Aligning Training and Strategy in Your Business

Introduction

This highly interactive GLOMACS 3-day workshop on Aligning Training and Strategy in Your Business will focus around the key areas required to ensure alignment of business objectives to training and development in order to ensure the success of the organisation.  This GLOMACS workshop will look at the organisational and personal impact to creating effective development strategies, lean processes, managing Training Providers as well as how to build a case for and calculating Return On Investment (ROI) ensuring Value For Money (VFM) is achieved.

This is an essential GLOMACS workshop for those who are responsible for ensuring the correct engagement and credibility of learning and development in the organisation, as well as the financial control of creating, measuring and managing training interventions. 

This GLOMACS workshop will highlight:

• An understanding of business strategy on the organisational and personal impact on the business
• Ensuring that proposed training and development programmes are relevant to the strategic direction of the business to support efficient planned expenditure
• Reviewing lean processes and alternative organisational development methods
• Ensuring efficient value from external learning service providers: (VFM)
• The management of the training budget and potential compromises impacting on the ‘training spend’
• Demonstrating that ROI has been achieved

Objectives

At the end of this GLOMACS workshop, you will learn to:

• Apply techniques to identifying business training needs aligned to organisational strategy
• Review and develop alternative cost-effective methods of development within the organisation
• Review lean processes and models to achieve efficiency
• Deal with external learning service providers to ensure cost-effective development options
• Prepare and create evaluation methods to aid the management and measurement of investment (ROI) and ensure Value For Money (VFM)
• Develop and propose a business case for training to meet strategic business objectives

Training Methodology

This highly interactive and engaging GLOMACS Workshop on Aligning Training and Strategy in Your Business will utilize a variety of adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented.  This will include highly interactive group and individual activities, targeted case studies and relevant practical exercises. This will be facilitated learning through direct input, discussion and encouragement to test and critically appraise theories, models and concepts.

Organisational Impact

Organisations will maximise their benefit by:

• Gaining more strategically OD focused personnel
• Negotiate and manage external learning providers more effectively
• Provide solutions to organisational development deficiencies
• Pro-actively develop value for money strategies to training
• Applying lean approaches to ensure effectiveness and reduce waste
• Conduct ROI and VFM for organisational approval

Personal Impact

As a delegate attending this highly interactive and engaging GLOMACS workshop you will:

• Gain increased knowledge of strategic organisational development
• Learn cost effective ways for development initiatives
• Develop alternative ways for developing others
• Gain deeper awareness of ROI and VFM techniques
• Increase your confidence and approach when managing external providers
• Utilise techniques to ensure plans and procedures are effective and efficient