Managing and Coordinating Training Proactively

Introduction:

To be successful in training coordination, you need to be familiar with instructional methods, build relationships with key stakeholders both internal and external to your organization, and understand the critical elements of evaluation to demonstrate organizational impact.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the Managing and Coordinating Training Course, participants will be able to:

• List the benefits of training and development and reasons causing programs to fail 
• Identify the main phases of the ISD model of training and development
• List and complete necessary tasks in coordinating training activities
• Evaluate training providers and prepare a training Request for Proposal (RFP)
• Create a work environment that will facilitate transfer of training
• List and apply training best practices within organizations
• List the characteristics of an effective trainer and identify some of the problems and solutions of training delivery.
• Create a work environment that facilitates transfer of training.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of training.

Who Should Attend?

This Managing and Coordinating Training Course ideal for: 

• Training and development administrators,
• Officers and business partners involved in coordinating training activities within the organization.

Course Outlines:

The training and development process

• The Strategic Training and Development Process
• Roles of Employees and Managers
• Top Management Support
• Aligning Training to Strategy

Coordinating training activities

• Preparing a training tasks timeline
• Training announcement templates
• The training site
• Seating arrangement
• Opening training courses
• Training logistics checklist

The Training Needs Assessment Process (TNA)

• Participants in Needs Assessment?
• Methods Used in Needs Assessment
• Advantages and Disadvantages of TNA Methods
• The Needs Assessment Process

Designing the Training Program

• The Basics of Training Design: Gagne Principles
• Training Design Activities
• Purposes of Training Objectives
• Writing Training Objectives
• Developing Course Material

Delivering the Training Program

• The Training Session Plan
• Training Delivery Activities
• The Trainer, Train-The-Trainer and Trainees
• The Training Site
• Seating Arrangement
• Scheduling and Administering the Training
• Training Delivery: Problems and Solutions

Transfer and evaluation of Training

• The Definition of Transfer of Training
• Barriers to the Transfer of Training
• Transfer of Training Framework(’Role of Management, Trainer and Trainees, Before, During and After the Training)
• Evaluating Training