TLB #27 🧠 Designing L&D Programs 101
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Hello Shaker,
I hope y’all are healthy and enjoying the spring. I am excited for you to read today’s Learning Bites.
Let’s get into it!
Here’s all that you’ll experience in today’s issue:
💡Learning Bites: Designing L&D Programs 101
🗓️ Community Calendar: Be a part of events like Community Social Mixer and many more.
🖌️ Community Creations: Let’s welcome Marina Petersson, Kelsey Ley and Jacey Rubinstein to the Core Team.
🔖 Resource Reel: A collection of resources on Facilitation, Workshop, and many more.
Learning Bites 💡
I've been having all these conversations lately, and one thing kept popping up. And you know what? It seems like a bunch of us are scratching our heads when it comes to understanding how exactly L&D programs are put together. Like, what's the secret sauce behind designing these things? So, I thought, why not dive into that topic for this week's issue?
There's a whole process involved to make sure a L&D program is effective and impactful. Here's what I discovered:
Here are my takeaways:
Identification of training needs and analysis:
Training needs arise due to various factors such as performance improvement, changes in technology or policies, knowledge and skill enhancement, career planning, and organizational strategy.
These needs are identified by assessing the gap between existing and desired performance, behaviour, and attitude of employees through various methods.
Practice: Conduct regular assessments and surveys to identify evolving training needs aligned with organizational goals and individual development plans.
Setting up of training and development objectives:
Objectives of training programs should focus on redirecting or improving behaviour to make trainees' performance more useful and productive for both themselves and the organization.
Objectives need to be expressed in behavioural terms, measurable quality, and in SMART criteria (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely).
Practice: Communicate training objectives to participants, ensuring they understand the expected outcomes and how they align with organizational goals.
Selection and designing of training programme:
Consider participants' levels, training duration, program content, effective methodology, and responsibility for training.
Practice: Tailor training programs to specific participant groups, ensuring relevance and applicability to their roles and skill levels.
Selection and developing training methods and techniques:
Utilize on-the-job and off-the-job training methods effectively, incorporating a variety of techniques based on the nature of the content and participant preferences.
Practice: Provide a blend of hands-on experiences, lectures, group discussions, and role-playing exercises to cater to a diverse audience and maximize engagement.
Implementation of training and development programme:
Ensure proper organization, scheduling, conduct, and monitoring of training programs to mitigate potential issues and optimize participant learning experiences.
Practice: Assign dedicated resources for program coordination, facilitate active participation, and provide timely feedback to participants to enhance their learning journey.
Evaluation of training and development programmes:
Implement continuous evaluation mechanisms to assess program effectiveness and gather feedback for improvement.
Practice: Collect feedback from participants, trainers, and stakeholders at various stages of the program, and use evaluation results to refine future training initiatives.
Feedback leading to further Identification of Training Needs:
Use feedback from program evaluations to identify areas for improvement, refine training approaches, and address emerging needs.
Practice: Encourage open communication channels for participants to provide feedback, prioritize action on identified areas for improvement, and iterate training programs accordingly.
That’s all, Shakers! This week, take a moment and identify one specific area within your training program that you believe could be improved. Whether it's the content, delivery methods, or evaluation processes, outline a plan to initiate positive changes.
Coming Up Next
Community Calendar 🗓️
Our next events lineup is here! Join us for super practical, fun and interesting sessions and meet other L&D buddies. Register for events using the link below!
Community Creations 🖌️
Let's give Marina Petersson a warm round of applause for stepping up and joining the Core Team as the catalyst for our Social Mixer. Thanks to Marina, we can now come together online every month for some much-needed connection and the chance to learn more about each other!
Thank you, Marina, for joining the Core Team. We can't wait to see the social mixers flourish under your creative spark!
A huge shoutout to Jane Garza for launching the LA Local Hub, and today, we're thrilled to announce that Kelsey Ley and Jacey Rubinstein officially join her at the steering wheel.
Welcome to the core team, Kelsey and Jacey! We can't wait to see how the three of you will nurture the Local Hub into a beautiful community.
Cool Stuff You Don’t Wanna Miss Out
Resource Reel 🔖
This week’s hottest resources are:
State of Facilitation by Session Lab covers what facilitation was like in 2023 and what facilitators can learn from it and apply in 2024.
World Happiness Report 2024 for the latest findings on the happiness of the world’s young, the old, and everyone.
Lessons learned: 1,000 days of distributed at Atlassian talks about their lessons from collaborating from 10,000+ locations. Here is a startling fact from the report-92% of Atlassians say our distributed work policy allows them to do their best work. 91% say it’s an important reason why they stay at Atlassian.
Free Workshop Playbook from Abracademy on collaboration, negotiation and many more.
How to create eLearning courses using Robert Gagne’s Events of Instructions by Vostretsova Natalia covers detailed insights on how to use each instruction to create engaging eLearning.
〜See you soon
Till then, keep spicing up your learning! 🧠🧂
Sejaal