Workshop General Information

Workshop Overview

Leaders in learning and performance must develop strategies that will facilitate achievement of critical business objectives. Resources must be closely aligned with both strategic and tactical goals to ensure maximum bottom line business impact and achievement of corporate, business unit, and departmental goals. This workshop will describe the seven essentials that every corporate learning and performance organization must master. Our workshop will introduce a comprehensive process for learning leaders that will maximize business impact, increase visibility, and optimize your organizational resources. 

 

This workshop will enable you to establish an enterprise wide learning and development strategy that will support established business goals and develop your organization into a recognized resource for facilitating business results. We will create a strategic learning and performance plan ensuring organizational alignment and support of enterprise business objectives by working collaboratively with other learning leaders to develop plans in strategy, governance, staffing, and technology.

 

Audience

  • CLO

  • Director

  • Manager

  • Individuals

Duration

  • 8 hours

 

Strategic Planning and Alignment
Objectives

When you have completed this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Develop a strategic plan for your organization that is aligned with defined business goals

  • Integrate organization factors, culture, and management styles

  • Leverage strategic goals and financial measurement standards of enterprise, business units, and departments

  • Understand and integrate cultural criteria as well as department, business unit, and enterprise perspectives

  • Develop a portfolio of high value projects closely linked to business goals and objectives

  • Synthesize lessons from other business areas

Business Presence

Objectives

When you have completed this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Gain support and sell your ideas

  • Become a consultative business partner and agent of change

  • Optimize your leadership, technical, interpersonal, organizational, and political skills

  • Communicate on-going programs, successes, and availability on an enterprise wide basis

  • Develop a clear message and compelling sound byte

Solution Determination

Objectives

When you have completed this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Develop learning solutions to support business objectives drawing from the wide range of learning solutions currently available

  • Establish quantifiable business objectives that will determine project success

  • Provide consultative input addressing when training is and is not the appropriate solution

  • Develop accurate cost and resource plans for solutions

  • Integrate changing learner demographics and standards in instructional strategy

  • Optimize the use of  both technology and non-technology based solutions

Project Intake and Portfolio Management

Objectives

When you have completed this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Develop a project intake process and project portfolio management strategy to optimize available resources and maximize business impact.

  • Evaluate project costs and expected total business return identifying highest value solution

  • Develop evaluation criteria for financial justification verifying project impact and return

  • Assess project costs and expected total business return in relation to project intake funnel and project portfolio

  • Utilize appropriate return and investment strategies incorporating other financial and non-financial methodologies

Solution Development and Implementation

Objectives

When you have completed this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Develop comprehensive project resource plans that optimize resources and meet project schedules

  • Manage risk, intangibles, discovery, and uncertainty

  • Develop, implement, and administer learning solutions efficiently and cost effectively

  • Develop delivery strategies for classroom, eLearning, and course administration that optimize the use of both technology and traditional processes

  • Develop an outsourcing strategy that optimizes internal resources while utilizing outside vendors

Accountability and Analytics

Objectives

When you have completed this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Ensure outcomes and business impact met planned project objectives

  • Develop an analytical model and process the assess business impact and project success

  • Implement a model that effectively gathers outcomes and business impact that is consistent with company metrics and evaluation criteria

Process and Operations

Objectives

When you have completed this seminar, you will be able to:

  • Monitor, measure, and manage ongoing projects in relation to project goals and objectives making adjustments as necessary.

  • Develop, implement, and administer selected solutions efficiently and cost effectively

  • Analyze and maintain asset inventory based on usage, currency, and relevance

  • Develop and evaluate resource and outsourcing plans that will meet current and future resource requirements

  • Implement a course maintenance strategy to keep courses current