The Training Analyst Mini MBA

Course details

Overview
This intensive 5 day programme starts with topics commonly found onmost MBAs such as People Management Leading Teams Strategic Planning Negotiating and Operational Excellence. The rest of the programme focuses ontraining analysis principles and techniques. Business costs are constantly under pressure and theTraining Department needs to be able to demonstrate a positive impact on the bottom line. The success andcost-effectiveness of any training and development initiative depends on the correct and timely analysis of training needs. Training then needs to be evaluated to showthe impact on the business and the return on the investment. By the end of the course delegates will be able to conduct a variety of training needs analyses and post training evaluations as well as leveraging best practices in their management of the training function.

Objective
By the end of this interactive training programme, you will be able to:
Understand and leverage management best practices
Understand the need for analysis within the context of the training cycle
Learn different models for conducting training needs analysis
Apply training analysis models to your own role and work context
Improve your ability to conduct a variety of skills analyses including critical incidentenvironmental scanning and hierarchical task analysis
Understand the difference between competences and competencies
Understand the importance of evaluation to a training function
Conduct training evaluations at a variety of levels
Create a Plan of Action for implementation in your organisation

Who Should Attend
Newly appointed Training Analysts
Training Managers wishing to learn more about this important element
Current Training Analysts who wish to learn new techniques or refresh their current knowledge
Anyone interested in gaining knowledge within this area

Course Outlines
Module 1 - People Management
The importance of socio-technical management
Techniques for effective communication
Motivating for results
Enhancing your coaching skills
Empowering employees for improved performance
Characteristics of a successful manager
Module 2 - Leading Teams
Obtaining the benefits of teamwork
Characteristics of ineffective teams
Characteristics of effective teams
Managing conflict in a productive manner
Understanding team member styles
Creating a virtual team
Module 3 - Strategic Planning
Analyzing the strategic planning process
Achieving competitive advantage
Utilizing dynamic SWOT analysis
Focusing on vision and mission
The importance of contingency planning
Examples of strategic success and failure
Module 4 - Negotiating for Results
Gaining insight into the negotiating process
Characteristics of an effective negotiator
Developing negotiating strategies
Employing persuasive negotiation techniques
Achieving the benefits of effective negotiating
Negotiation exercises
Module 5 - Operational Excellence
Lessons from the best performing companies
Benchmarking your operation against the best
Creating employee commitment
Managing continuous improvement
Creating the high performance organisation
Module 6 - Introduction to training analysis
Program introductions and objectives
The five key areas of training activity using a model
The four key areas of training spend
how to establish unit costs for analysis
Analysis of training function efficiency
Review
Module 7 - Training delivery and evaluation
How to use the 10 step process
practical group exercise
Business expectations compared with training results case study
Analysis methods for training materials
Analysis methods for training delivery and for trainees
what information is useful to keep.
Understanding evaluation and being able to apply it worked examples
Review
Module 8 - Trend analysis
What trends are worth analyzing?
Practical group exercise
In house and external training understanding their relationship and Value
How to do the analysis and how to produce results group exercise and case study
complete worked examples will be provided
Module 9 - Evaluation process
What would improve training effectiveness?
Pedagogical v agrological methods
Training duration
Incentives
The role and positioning of testing
Management accountability for training implementation
Competencies and the impact of evaluation
Should all training be subjected to evaluation?
Where and how to get measurement to provide outstanding results
Review
Module 10 - Applying analysis techniques in your work place
Group quiz
Dealing with variance and uncertainty during analysis
Succession planning and its effectiveness
What to do with poor performers
Back at work plans