Aligning Learning with Business Strategy
Why Choose this Training Course?
An organization is only as good as its people, and the people are only as good as the training and development they receive. A primary focus of OD, HR and L&D Professionals is to ensure that development fits in with the organization requirements to ensure effective competitive advantage. This training course will greatly improve your knowledge and skills in aligning learning and development with business strategy to ensure competitive sustainable growth.
On this highly interactive and engaging training course you will master techniques to understand the strategic importance of organisational development, focus development options to add value as well as demonstrate return on investment (ROI), identify and develop your key personnel, as well as increase overall performance in your organization, and apply active succession planning. Having highly developed people in line with a clear business strategy becomes a unique differentiator in the ever competitive and demanding market.
This training course will feature:
The strategic role of training and development to ensure competitiveness, business alignment and strategic advantage
How to develop your personnel, in particular your high performers and talent
The methods employed to ensure sustainable development whilst ensuring value for money and ROI
Development options and methodologies that can be employed and demonstrated to add competitive value
The key areas to communicate to ensure business alignment and buy-in is achieved
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
Understand the strategic role of development in an organisation
Define and develop key personnel in the organisation
Apply techniques and workable solutions to ensure ROI (Return on Investment)
Demonstrate and apply techniques to develop people for increased performance
Develop strategic succession plans
Who is this Training Course for?
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
HR / OD Professionals
L&D / Training Professionals
Talent Management and People Development Professionals
The Course Content
Day One: The Strategic Role of Organisational Development
Strategic Organisational Development (OD)
Business Strategy: The Need for Long-term Planning for Future Skills and Competences
Aligning Training and Development to Meet Business Objectives
Organisational Development Planning: Creating a Learning Organisation
Value of Organisational Training Standards: ISO 9000; ISO 29993:2017
Day Two: Developing Key Personnel
Motivation and How People Learn
Talent Management Models, Grading and Structures
Assessment Methods: Psychometrics, Behavioural, Competency frameworks
Conducting an Effective Talent Gap Analysis
ABC Model and the 9 Box Grid of Talent Management
Alternative Development Options for High Potentials
Day Three: Managing Organisational and Individual Performance
Defining Performance Management
Setting and Defining and Cascading Powerful Objectives
Conducting an Effective Performance Discussion
Coaching and Mentoring to Achieve Business Objectives
Powerful Feedback Techniques: Motivating Individuals to Achieve Higher Potential
Creating Individual Development Plans
Day Four: Sustainable Development – Cost vs Benefit
Evaluation Models of Training and Development Interventions
Measuring ROI: Cost Benefit Methods and Models
Measuring Intangible Impacts: Behavioural, Cultural
Using Key Stakeholders and Line Management in ROI Measurement
Reporting and Controlling the ROI: Business Intelligence
Day Five: Strategic Succession Planning and Organisational Capability Review
Defining your Bench Strength
Succession Planning and the OCR process
Conducting Effective Calibration Meetings
Formulating a Strategic Talent Plan for the Organization in Line with the Business Strategy
Communicating the Strategy to the Board and the Company
INFORMATECH is the region’s leading provider of in-house custom-designed courses. We have been tailoring in-house solutions for our clients aimed at helping them achieve short term training wins or long term strategic requirements. In addition to being significantly cost effective, these courses are constantly in demand because they:
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If you did not find the appropriate date or venue suitable for you, or you would like to join the course online, you can request a custom course from the link below.
We offer group and corporate discounts on many courses. These discounts are available for clients who want to maximize their return on investment.
We offer individual discounts on many courses for people who are self-sponsored and make their payment in full and upfront at the time of registration.
Nominations to our public courses are to be processed by the client’s HR/Training department except for self-nominations which are to be paid in advance using the “payment by self” option on the online registration form. A refund will be issued back to the client in the event of course cancellation or seat unavailability. Registration confirmation is subject to INFORMATECH's review of registration request and seat availability.
Clients are responsible for any type of tax levied in their country.
If you are interested in having a course custom-designed for your organization, please submit a request using the link below. Once we receive your duly completed request, one of our business development professionals or consultants will get in touch with you to understand your requirements with more detail and answer any relevant questions you may have. After all pertinent information has been exchanged, we will work on the custom-designed request and send you the proposal you require and work with you to identify the ideal period and place for delivering the custom-designed solution.