A 12 week distance learning course

	Improve business effectiveness by accurately identifying learning needs and planning appropriate interventions
	Provide analysis and advice to line managers on initiatives to improve organisational performance
	Promote the learning function throughout the organisation, through user-friendly communication strategies and projecting a professional image

Course Overview
Organisational development and individual development are critical to the success of all organisations. With the fast pace of change, organisations are facing all kinds of challenges – political, economic, sociological, technological, legislative and environmental. Risks are around every corner and you need people in your organisations who are ready and looking out for new products and services, new ways of working, new production, new systems, new marketing techniques that will provide some advantage in the marketplace.

At the core of this changing environment are those of you who are involved in learning, training and people development. You are, and should be, critical to the success of your organisation. Therefore, your work must be based on a professional and rigorous understanding of organisational and individual
learning. You must build relationships and create a true customer focused organisation, you must ensure that your own organisation is built on sure foundations of direction, focused objectives, deliverables and measurements of success and you must deliver results that have clear value to the organisation.

The purpose of this course is to give you a solid foundation for your current or future role in the training department. Just as with any other profession, there is knowledge that must be based on good empirical evidence, there are skills you need to master and there are beliefs and values that usefully underpin the work that you do. Throughout the course, you will identify the knowledge, work on the skills and develop the beliefs and values that will make you most effective.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this distance learning programme, you will:

• Build your vision and mission for your work as a training manager; discover your core set of values that will provide your foundation in setting your focus within the learning department
• Recognise the key concepts of the Learning Organisation – linking learning with change and performance management
• Make learning and development a strategic input to the business and put in place policies to underpin this
• Identify the key activities of the training department within your organisation – and your
  role within it
• Produce a profile of competencies of the training professional and set up a learning programme to deliver on all competencies
• Provide analysis and advice to operational managers on how learning interventions will improve their departmental performance
• Analyse learning needs, plan interventions and organise their delivery
• Understand how blended learning can produce more effective results
• Set up effective administration systems and procedures, recording training information, personal development plans for all staff and
  reporting to more senior management
• Identify the features and benefits of a learning management system/training management system
• Promote the learning function throughout the organisation, meeting with operational managers, designing user-friendly communication and projecting a professional image of the learning department that fits the technology environment of the organisation
• Prepare and control the learning department’s budget

Who Should Enrol?
This course is appropriate for anyone looking to build a career in training management and administration and for line managers with responsibility for training, including:

• Heads of Human Resource Development
• Training and Development Managers
• Training Coordinators
• Training Officers
• HR officers/assistants
• Administration Managers
• Employee Performance Specialist
• Career Counsellor
• Employee Performance Manager
• Personnel Supervisor;
• Personnel Managers/Officers/Supervisors