Advanced Learning and Development Practice

Key Information

• Course Code: HR106
• Duration: 2 weeks
• Fee: £4045

Course outline

Learning and Development and the Organisation

• Understanding organizations
• Why are organizations established?
• Different types of organization
• The learning and development function

Identifying Learning and Development Needs

• What are the learning needs?
• Identifying learning needs
• Collecting and analyzing learning needs information
• Determining priorities
• Presenting a recommendation for learning

Designing Learning and Development Activities

• Aims, objectives and learning outcomes
• Determining and sequencing learning content
• Selecting training and learning methods
• Selecting and developing learning resources

Delivering Learning and Development Activities

• Preparing for L&D activities
• Establishing the physical environment for learning
• Delivery methods and techniques
• Working with visual aids and resources
• Managing group dynamics and creating a positive learning environment

Using Technology to Facilitate Learning

• Technology and learning
• The timeline of technology in training
• Delivering live online learning sessions
• Creating digital learning content

Enhancing Learner Engagement

• Factors affecting learning engagement
• Psychology and learning
• Neuroscience and learning
• Strategies for enhancing engagement

Supporting Collective and Social Learning

• What is collective and social learning?
• E-learning
• Facilitating collective and social learning within an online learning programme
• Using social media for collective and social learning

Supporting Individual Learning through Coaching and Mentoring

• The coaching process
• The mentoring process
• Coaching and mentoring practice – models
• Coaching and mentoring practice – communication techniques
• Recording coaching and mentoring activity

Assessing Learning and Development

• The assessor role
• Planning assessment
• Assessment methods
• Making an assessment decision
• Providing assessment feedback

Organising Learning and Development Events

• Types of L&D events
• Planning and coordinating an L&D event
• Promoting L&D events
• Customer care skills

Target audience

This L&D training is suitable for:

• HR managers and executives.
• Those who work in learning and development (L&D), training or HRD (human resources development).
• Those preparing for an L&D role.
• L&D professionals, practitioners, advisers, facilitators and partners.
• Trainers, training officers and instructors.
• Learning and organizational development consultants.
• Learning curators and champions.
• Coaches
• Workplace assessors
• Curriculum designers
• Digital learning designers
• Senior officers and assistants employed in the HR function of their organization who wish to contribute to L&D practice.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:

• The position and contribution of L&D to an organization.
• The essential technical skills and knowledge that underpin the L&D profession and which are crucial to success in most L&D roles.
• Various aspects of the training cycle in more depth, taking your learning to a more specialist level.