Workshop on Aligning Training and Strategy in Your Business

This highly interactive and engaging Gulf Rowad Workshop on Aligning Training and Strategy in Your Business will utilize a variety of adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented.  This will include highly interactive group and individual activities, targeted case studies and relevant practical exercises. This will be facilitated learning through direct input, discussion and encouragement to test and critically appraise theories, models and concepts.

At the end of this Gulf Rowad workshop, you will learn to:

• Apply techniques to identifying business training needs aligned to organisational strategy
• Review and develop alternative cost-effective methods of development within the organisation
• Review lean processes and models to achieve efficiency
• Deal with external learning service providers to ensure cost-effective development options
• Prepare and create evaluation methods to aid the management and measurement of investment (ROI) and ensure Value For Money (VFM)
• Develop and propose a business case for training to meet strategic business objectives

This highly interactive Gulf Rowad workshop is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit those who:

• Have direct responsibility for the training budget within the organisation and wish to gain greater effectiveness and efficiency in managing this
• Have a strategic overview of the business and who may also be responsible for initiating training programmes or authorizing expenditure for training and wish to gain a greater understanding of training budget formulation and ROI
• Are responsible for Human Resource / Organisational Development and the planning and delivery of training programmes at a strategic level
• Are responsible for the planning and implementation of training programs at an operational level

Organisational Impact

Organisations will maximise their benefit by:

• Gaining more strategically OD focused personnel
• Negotiate and manage external learning providers more effectively
• Provide solutions to organisational development deficiencies
• Pro-actively develop value for money strategies to training
• Applying lean approaches to ensure effectiveness and reduce waste
• Conduct ROI and VFM for organisational approval

Personal Impact

As a delegate attending this highly interactive and engaging Gulf Rowad workshop you will:

• Gain increased knowledge of strategic organisational development
• Learn cost effective ways for development initiatives
• Develop alternative ways for developing others
• Gain deeper awareness of ROI and VFM techniques
• Increase your confidence and approach when managing external providers
• Utilise techniques to ensure plans and procedures are effective and efficient