Managing Training & Return on Investment (ROI)

An organization’s success and leadership in the 21^st century depends upon its ability to rapidly change and grow. Organisations must meet the multiple demands of a changing marketplace with continuous learning and new skills. Organisations are striving to continuously learn and can rapidly adapt work environments, processes, roles and competencies to new challenges. The structure and processes of an organisation’s work is changing at an accelerating rate. Customer focused organisations emphasise effective processes and often structure themselves as entrepreneurial teams working with other teams to create value and profit.

The Managing Training & ROI course is intended to provide the participants with an understanding of the importance of effectively identifying the roles & responsibilities needed to be competitive; know how to address changes in their roles and available resources; realize the importance of a continuous learning organisation; be a solution-seeker in defining learning objectives; and know how to shift from the activity of training to being productive in measuring the organisation’s return on investment.

The important features of the Managing Training and ROI course are:

• Self-analysis: Where am I now and what do I know (or not know)?
• Organisational-analysis: How are we approaching team building now?
• Application of principles learned: How will I apply what is learned in my work environment? How can I be an effective leader in training? How can I develop an effective methodology to measure our return on investment in training?
• Table Group Discussions: What can I learn from others?
• Feedback PIP Exercises: Assessing learning through putting Principles into Practice

The Managing Training and ROI course is based on accomplishing these objectives:

• To increase the delegate’s knowledge of:
  • Meeting the organization’s competency/skill needs
  • Providing a focus for workforce demographics, retirement projections, and succession planning.
  • Providing a clear rationale for linking expenditures for recruitment, training, employee development, retention, and other human resource programs to the organisation’s long-term goals and objectives
  • Providing managers with tools to address changes in program direction that impacts that type of work being performed
  • Assisting managers in creating a high-quality workforce capable of continually growing and changing
  • Assisting managers in identifying partnering, outsourcing, delayering, and reorganizing opportunities
  • Improving the organization’s brand and the market perception of the enterprise’s long-term viability
  • Aligning and exploiting business opportunities by having a better understanding of the workforce capabilities and what is needed.
  • Meeting strategic, operational, and tactical goals
• To improve skills in:
  • Diagnosing and solving training issues
  • Building individual capacity and being able to measure the return on investment
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Written and oral communication
  • Critical thinking and analysis
  • Tracking and Measuring Performance

The Managing Training and ROI course is designed for:

• All professionals & leaders who desire an in-depth knowledge of best practices in managing training
• Anyone who is interested in developing their capacity as a manager of training
• Anyone who has the responsibility for enhancing workforce development and training in today’s rapidly changing global business environment

Attendance to this course would enable delegates to learn and apply advanced principles of managing training and ROI in order to build workforce capacities & corporate transformation.

Our highly practical experiential learning method is results-oriented; based on an adult learning concept; incorporates short inspiring lectures with structured lessons from the learning manual; captivating PowerPoint slides with videos to enhance learning; ongoing discussions with action planning; ample time for Q&A; training activities to reinforce key concepts within a fun learning environment; and is designed to function as an interactive group process with delegates continuously building their capacity through interaction, experiential learning and learning the importance of being successful in Managing Training and ROI.

Pre & Post course assessments will be used to measure the effectiveness of this training.