Managing and Measuring Training, Learning and Development

This dynamic and current course will provide you with the essential knowledge and skills to gain greater strategic value from your investment in training and development. The focus of the course will be the analysis and alignment of business objectives to create efficient systems to achieve the maximum ROI from your learning and development. You will also learn how to produce an effective business case utilizing metrics and other sources of strategic analysis. This is an essential course for those who wish to be more effective and efficient with the training budget and more strategic with training interventions.

This Managing and Measuring Training, Learning and Development training course will feature:

• Dealing with issues related to the management of the training budget and the ‘training spend’
• Ensuring that proposed training programmes are relevant and the business case to support planned expenditure can be made
• Practical training evaluation methodologies, systems and processes.
• Managing & leading the training function
• Essential steps to becoming a learning organisation

By the end of this training course participants will be able to:

• Examine the issues related to measuring and maximizing training ROI
• Apply the techniques training need analysis (TNA)
• Develop and propose a business case for training to meet strategic business objectives
• Prepare and an appropriate business model for training and development
• Analyze cost-benefit and return-on-investment for training and development activities

This Managing and Measuring Training, Learning and Development training course is suitable to a wide range of HR, L&D and Training professionals, line managers, team leaders, but will greatly benefit those who:

• have direct responsibility for the training budget within the organisation and wish to gain greater effectiveness and efficiency in managing this
• have a strategic overview of the business and who may also be responsible for initiating training programmes  or authorizing expenditure for training and wish to gain a greater understanding of training budget formulation and ROI
• are responsible for Human Resource / Organisational Development and the planning and delivery of training programmes at a strategic level
• are responsible for the planning and implementation of training programs
• need to know about training evaluation and ROI

The training course will utilize a variety of adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This will include group and individual activities, case studies and practical exercises. This will be facilitated learning through direct input, discussion and encouragement to critically appraise the ideas presented. Delegates will be encouraged to interact and engage with the course by exploring, discussing and debating the findings and conclusions of group activities using their own work related experiences.