Training and Development Proposal

Training and Development Proposal

Key elements of Organizational Performance

Training and development have become an important part of the organizations that are concern about improving their performance. In order to improve the performance of their teams, managers and executives hire consultants or trainers who actively help their organization for improving overall performance (Saba, 2011). However, this organization also has to consider certain key elements for training and development for their performance improvement. These elements are:

Alignment of training with organizational goals

Knowledge of current learning culture of organization

Needs analysis

Criteria for evaluation and success

Communication and marketing strategies

Measurement of business impact strategy.

Alignment with Organizational Goals

Alignment of training with the organizational is the most basic key element of every training and development strategy. Every internal or external training program must be parallel to support and promote the organizational goal's achievement. However, many HR or training professionals may skip this step which is not unusual (Saba, 2011). This training and development program will make employees “hard-wired” to think in terms of the bottom line and business benefits. Today's organizations need sharper clarity and focus of thinking and operating in specific way and owing to this fact, the fundamental key element on which this training will emphasize is aligning training efforts with the organizational goals.

Organizational Culture  

It is important to know that the learning culture of every organization is different from another. This key element of training will try to find out the answers of certain questions. For instance, few of the queries are; is training embedded into the workflow? Are employees of the organization dedicated to constant development? Does the organization ready to adopt a technology-based training and learning solutions? Having a complete knowledge about the existing state of organizations is quite crucial (McLean, 2005). It is due to the fact that any learning solution should be appropriate to the current culture of the organization. That is why, there is a potential to gain the desired performance changes sought through the training program.

Needs Analysis

Need analysis is another key element for improving organization's performance. It will help create a focus on the challenges of the business that can be met with the help of a training program. Here, it is important to note that every business program does not require training solutions (McLean, 2005). Owing to this fact, it will be make sure that organization will focus efforts and its limited sources where it can yield business benefits.

Evaluation and Success Criteria

Organizations also need to know that how they have been successful. Owing to this fact, the organization will have to determine the criteria they will be using to measure the affects of training program on organizational performance. For this process, two questions needed to be asked; what success will look like? And how will organization know that they have succeeded? Answers to these questions will help identify the data needed (Saba, 2011).

Communication and Marketing Strategy

A marketing and communication strategy is important for every successful training program which is focusing on ...