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  Julia Feng 冯薇    Premium Member   Group moderator   Ambassador

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  Align training for results

  I had an opportunity to attend Mr. Ron Drew Stone's workshop on training needs analysis and would like to share with you its main points. Mr. Stone is a leading expert and author of many books on training and performance improvement.
  
  We often ask ourselves in the training and development profession "how to make training work for our organization?" It is no doubt a crucial question because senior management are becoming more and more familiar with the potential contribution of training and development to the over-all strategy and growth of the company. And we need to be ready to provide our organization the highest possible return on investment to the money invested in training interventions.
  
  The first key point of the workshop is the Performance-Centered Framework that serves as a guide for training and development professionals to align all the training interventions to the business need of the organization. Through this framework, all the efforts related to the training implementation are geared towards ensuring that the target population are being prepared to perform, supported to execute and that their efforts and activities can impact the target business outcome.
  
  Another key point of this workshop is the Performance Alignment and Linkage Process which comprehensively describes and illustrates all the phases of the training cycle. It also provides the guiding principles, tools, templates and job aids to help the training and development professionals immediately implement the process to their work. The Performance Alignment and Linkage Process is a very vital knowledge for training and development professionals due to its systematic and logical approach to training preparation, implementation and evaluation of results. But more importantly, when applied, it influences the desired business outcome through the execution of plans and activities in the work setting.
  
  Finally, another key point of the workshop is the understanding of the different business signals that trigger training needs in the organization. Mr. Stone identifies six signals namely: business deficiency, execution deficiency, new expectation, business change, business opportunity and business compliance. When a training professional is approached by a line manager for a training implementation, the need of this line manager maybe traced from any or combination of these signals. Hence, of instead of just agreeing to conduct the training without proper investigation of the business need, the training professional can propose to the line manager to determine what is driving the training request.
  
  If you are interested to know more about this workshop, I would be happy to attend to your inquiry. Our learning consultants shall also be interested to meet with you and understand if this workshop will provide your training and development staff the necessary and important skills to be a true business partner in your organization.
  
  • 13 May 2010, 10:35 am
  Julia Feng 冯薇 wrote: > I had an opportunity to attend Mr. Ron Drew Stone's workshop on > training needs analysis and would like to share with you its main > points. Mr. Stone is a leading expert and author of many books on > training and performance improvement. > > We often ask ourselves in the training and development profession > "how to make training work for our organization?" It is no doubt a > crucial question because senior management are becoming more and more > familiar with the potential contribution of training and development > to the over-all strategy and growth of the company. And we need to be > ready to provide our organization the highest possible return on > investment to the money invested in training interventions. > > The first key point of the workshop is the Performance-Centered > Framework that serves as a guide for training and development > professionals to align all the training interventions to the business > need of the organization. Through this framework, all the efforts > related to the training implementation are geared towards ensuring > that the target population are being prepared to perform, supported > to execute and that their efforts and activities can impact the > target business outcome. > > Another key point of this workshop is the Performance Alignment and > Linkage Process which comprehensively describes and illustrates all > the phases of the training cycle. It also provides the guiding > principles, tools, templates and job aids to help the training and > development professionals immediately implement the process to their > work. The Performance Alignment and Linkage Process is a very vital > knowledge for training and development professionals due to its > systematic and logical approach to training preparation, > implementation and evaluation of results. But more importantly, when > applied, it influences the desired business outcome through the > execution of plans and activities in the work setting. > > Finally, another key point of the workshop is the understanding of > the different business signals that trigger training needs in the > organization. Mr. Stone identifies six signals namely: business > deficiency, execution deficiency, new expectation, business change, > business opportunity and business compliance. When a training > professional is approached by a line manager for a training > implementation, the need of this line manager maybe traced from any > or combination of these signals. Hence, of instead of just agreeing > to conduct the training without proper investigation of the business > need, the training professional can propose to the line manager to > determine what is driving the training request. > > If you are interested to know more about this workshop, I would be > happy to attend to your inquiry. Our learning consultants shall also > be interested to meet with you and understand if this workshop will > provide your training and development staff the necessary and > important skills to be a true business partner in your organization.