Learning & Development Manager

Human Resources Manager, Training Manager, or anyone tasked with gathering training needs

The training manager has become a key player in companies. They develop collaborators’ skills, ensures their professional mobility, and diversifies and masters all the training tools. They also ensure the consistency of the training with the company’s strategy. In this context, the “Learning & Development” course allows you to develop all the necessary skills in a practical manner, from the analysis of needs during training to the assessment of concrete results in the workplace.

General aims of the certified path:

• To understand the stakes of the position of training manager
• To be able to set up a training process, from needs analysis during training to result assessment
• To be able to choose the training tools adapted to the audience and the professional environment

Module 1: Settle in Your Role

Objectives

• Knowing your role and your tasks as a training manager
• Being able to position yourself within the company's overall training strategy

Programme

• Key skills
  • Finding your place in the Human Resources department
  • Developing the skills of the staff
  • Integrating and train new staff
  • Managing a team
• The role of training in a company
  • Knowing the company strategic choices
  • Developing the training offer according to the allocated budget
  • Building a skills framework adapted to the company
• Mastering training systems
  • The rules of continuing professional training
  • The legal obligations of training
  • Co-financing and the training
  • The stakeholders in continuing vocational training

Module 2: Collect and Analyse Training Needs - Build Your Training Plan

Objectives

• Identifying the individual or group needs in training
• Developing tools to help identify training needs
• Analyzing the information provided by the applicant

Programme

• Defining your training strategy
  • The company's training strategy
  • The skills development plan
• Identifying and analyzing needs
  • The needs analysis
  • The different types of needs
  • The survey methods and questions to ask
  • The articulation of goals
  • What to do? Who does it?
• Building your training plan
  • Tool choice to consolidate data
  • Organizing training in line with the company's strategy
  • Defining training priorities
  • Evaluating the data associated to the plan

Module 3: Integrate All Modes of Learning Into Your Training Plan

Objectives

• Knowing the different modes of learning
• Choosing the training tool adapted to the audience and the training goals
• Become familiar with the different types of pedagogical methods and training activities

Programme

• The different modes of learning:
  • Virtual classroom
  • E-learning
  • Blended learning
  • Video capsules
  • Serious game…
• Choosing the modes of learning according to:
  • The audience
  • The company’s activities
  • The topics of the training courses
  • The allocated budget
• Communicate clearly on the choice of distance learning:
  • Why choose distance learning
  • Communicate the training goals to be achieved
  • Defining new learning rules - the challenges and attitudes related to distance learning
• The different training methods used
  • The different teaching methods used by trainers
  • Choose the right teaching method for the target audience, training objectives and training topic
• Group dynamics and animation in training
  • Different types of audience
  • Animation techniques
  • The impact of group dynamics

Module 4: Elaborating the Specifications of a Training Project

Objectives

• To collect and synthesize all the necessary information to create the specifications for a training project

Programme

• Studying the context of the request
  • The purpose and the stakes: the various levels of goals
  • The field covered
  • The stakeholders involved
  • The resources to manage
• Analyzing the existing situation
  • Reminder about individual needs, group needs, and professional needs
  • Specifications for individuals
• Determining organizational choices
  • Envisioning the various possible training responses
  • Determining the desired teaching methods and the success indicators
  • Determining the conditions for implementation
  • Identifying constraints and taking the cost into account
  • Determining the timeline and the training schedule
  • Estimating the budget
  • Validating the involvement of the stakeholders
• Writing the document
  • Writing clear and concise specifications
  • Writing a call for tender

Module 5: Evaluating Your Training and Project Activities: Measure the Efficiency and the Added Value

Objectives

• Understand the constraints linked to the evaluation of training activity
• Quantifying the potential gaps between the original goals and the results
• Use indicators and share results

Programme

• Introduction
  • The role of evaluation in training activity
  • The different evaluation types and methods
• Evaluation according to the identified needs
  • Evaluation and the company’s strategic goals
  • Evaluation and the personal goals of each individual
• Evaluation along the training activity
  • What should be evaluated during the training project?
  • Pre-training evaluation – During training activity – Post-training evaluation
  • Results analysis
  • Creating an action plan according to the results
  • The indicators linked to evaluations
• Selection of training indicators
  • Financial indicators
  • Indicators related to internal clients / attendees
  • Indicators related to the training process
  • Indicators linked to internal / external service providers
• Analysis and reporting of key indicators
  • Analyse your indicators
  • Choosing the right indicators to report to the right audience

Module 6: Workshop “Use Cases” in Training

Objectives

• Linking the training policy to the company’s strategic axes
• Adopt the right training strategy according to the project

Programme

• End-of-course exam
• Feedback and presentation of individual intersession work
• Presentation of Use Cases
• Building an individual action plan

A multiple-choice exam certifies this course.