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In today’s business environment where change is constant, technology is cheap and skill shortages are commonplace, people are the key differentiator between those businesses that succeed and those that don’t. It is little wonder then that the training and development function in an organization plays a pivotal role in moving an organization forward. But how should the training department go about its business of providing the best service possible to the rest of the organization? The best practice training management model below recognizes the systems nature of organizations and takes an evolutionary approach to achieving best practice. What this means is that this model appreciates that the training and development function is co?dependent on the other functions within an organization for its effectiveness and, because of this co-dependence, it cannot achieve world-class performance all at once. Looking at the co-dependence aspect more closely, some of the internal systems on which the training and development function co-depend are: Workforce Planning – for determining the organization’s labor and capability requirements and what skills can be developed in-house and what needs to be bought from the external market. Performance Management – for determining individual training and development needs and satisfying those needs. Rewards and Recognition – for motivating employees to learn new skills and to apply those skills on the job. Strategic Planning – for determining the organization’s strategic training needs and to improve the organization’s strategic planning capability. To illustrate this co-dependence further, consider the strategic planning system. If this system is under-developed, the training function will find it difficult to identify and deliver training programs of high strategic significance. The co-dependence is illustrated by the fact that the organization’s ability to plan strategically can be improved through delivering training in strategic planning to senior managers. Core Mission and Processes Most would agree that the core mission of a fully developed training function could be summarized as: “Deliver people capability required to achieve organizational objectives.” There exist four core processes within such a training function. These four processes each serve to contribute to the achievement of the training function’s core mission. The four core processes that serve to achieve this mission are:
Looking at the co-dependence aspect more closely, some of the internal systems on which the training and development function co-depend are: Workforce Planning – for determining the organization’s labor and capability requirements and what skills can be developed in-house and what needs to be bought from the external market. Performance Management – for determining individual training and development needs and satisfying those needs. Rewards and Recognition – for motivating employees to learn new skills and to apply those skills on the job. Strategic Planning – for determining the organization’s strategic training needs and to improve the organization’s strategic planning capability. To illustrate this co-dependence further, consider the strategic planning system. If this system is under-developed, the training function will find it difficult to identify and deliver training programs of high strategic significance. The co-dependence is illustrated by the fact that the organization’s ability to plan strategically can be improved through delivering training in strategic planning to senior managers. Core Mission and Processes Most would agree that the core mission of a fully developed training function could be summarized as: “Deliver people capability required to achieve organizational objectives.” There exist four core processes within such a training function. These four processes each serve to contribute to the achievement of the training function’s core mission. The four core processes that serve to achieve this mission are:
Workforce Planning – for determining the organization’s labor and capability requirements and what skills can be developed in-house and what needs to be bought from the external market. Performance Management – for determining individual training and development needs and satisfying those needs. Rewards and Recognition – for motivating employees to learn new skills and to apply those skills on the job. Strategic Planning – for determining the organization’s strategic training needs and to improve the organization’s strategic planning capability. To illustrate this co-dependence further, consider the strategic planning system. If this system is under-developed, the training function will find it difficult to identify and deliver training programs of high strategic significance. The co-dependence is illustrated by the fact that the organization’s ability to plan strategically can be improved through delivering training in strategic planning to senior managers. Core Mission and Processes Most would agree that the core mission of a fully developed training function could be summarized as: “Deliver people capability required to achieve organizational objectives.” There exist four core processes within such a training function. These four processes each serve to contribute to the achievement of the training function’s core mission. The four core processes that serve to achieve this mission are:
To illustrate this co-dependence further, consider the strategic planning system. If this system is under-developed, the training function will find it difficult to identify and deliver training programs of high strategic significance. The co-dependence is illustrated by the fact that the organization’s ability to plan strategically can be improved through delivering training in strategic planning to senior managers. Core Mission and Processes Most would agree that the core mission of a fully developed training function could be summarized as: “Deliver people capability required to achieve organizational objectives.” There exist four core processes within such a training function. These four processes each serve to contribute to the achievement of the training function’s core mission. The four core processes that serve to achieve this mission are:
Core Mission and Processes Most would agree that the core mission of a fully developed training function could be summarized as: “Deliver people capability required to achieve organizational objectives.” There exist four core processes within such a training function. These four processes each serve to contribute to the achievement of the training function’s core mission. The four core processes that serve to achieve this mission are:
An Evolutionary Approach to Best Practice The evolutionary approach proposed here is called the Training Management Maturity Model as it identifies four possible levels of maturity for any training function. In particular, it offers a way for organizations to develop their training function iteratively. It describes how an organization may progressively develop these four core processes in a structured and planned approach that makes best use of an organization’s resources, and takes account of the maturity level of other internal systems. Furthermore, moving a training function forward will expend a considerable amount of the organization’s resources – resources that are just not available in one big hit. This evolutionary approach allows the training function to develop towards best practice in a staged way as resources become progressively available. Considering the co-dependence in particular, this approach links the four levels in the model with each of the four core processes mentioned earlier. The linkages look like the following: Level 4 – Performance focuses on performance consulting Level 3 – Planning focuses on training strategy and planning Level 2 – Standards focuses on program development Level 1 – Visibility focuses on training administration Immature organizations are able to start at Level 1, and then as funds become available and the other organizational systems mature, it may progress to the next level and to the next, and so on. How will an organization look as it progressively implements efforts to improve the value of training and development activities? Organizations at the primary level, Level 1 – Visibility, concentrate on getting the basic administrative processes defined and practiced rigorously. At Level 2 - Standards, there is a focus on improving the quality of the training product developed and finally delivered. Skill ga
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