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Skills Test - Research Report

This assessment requires you to take on the role of a HR Manager in your training organisation. 

You are required to complete a research report on the development and analysis of learning and development strategies for your training organisation. 

During the preparation of the research report, you will be required to: 

• Consult a range of internal stakeholders to identify the training organisation's policies and procedures relating to the development of learning and development strategies. 
• Conduct online research to identify and develop change management processes for your training organisation. 

The research report should be based on the information provided in the scenario and description sections. 

Scenario 

To be a sustainable training organisation, all training organisations must develop a learning and development strategy that sets out the workforce capabilities, skills and competencies the organisation needs.

The workforce capabilities, skills and competencies are assessed based on the following factors: 

• Internal environment.
• External environment 
• Training organisation's strategy. 

The existing learning and development strategy is outdated. To address the workforce gaps and plan for the achievement of strategic objectives, the management wants to develop a new learning and development strategy. 

They want the HR Manager to develop a research report on the development of learning and development strategy that they will use as a baseline for the development of the training organisation's learning strategy. 

Description of the activity:

This activity requires you to complete a research report on the development and analysis of learning and development strategies for your training organisation. 

You will take on the role of the HR Manager at your training organisation

You must complete a research report on the development and analysis of learning and development strategies for your training organisation. Your report must contain all of the following: 

• Introduction to the report. Include the following information: 
  • Your research topic 
  • Background information 
  • Objectives of writing the report 
• Body of the report: 
• Workforce capabilities, skills and competencies the training organisation needs.
• Need for communication and consultation processes to support and encourage stakeholder input into design, implementation and review of organisational learning and development strategy
• Training organisation's operations. 
• Workforce capabilities, skills and competencies that the training organisation needs. 
• Sources you used to assess the workforce capabilities, skills and competencies the training organisation needs.
• Legislation, codes of practice, and national standards that the HR Manager (You) must comply with during your training organisation's learning strategy development. 
  • Legislation
  • Codes of practice 
  • National standards 
• Need for communication and consultation processes. 
• Key stakeholders to be consulted in the following phases of the learning and development strategy:
  • Design phase. 
  • Implementation phase
  • Review phase
• Sources used to gather the information. 
• Common approaches to learning strategy design. 
  • Most common approaches to learning strategy design based on the assessment of existing competitors in the market.
  • Two (2) common approaches to learning strategy design. 
• Assessment of the existing organisational learning and development strategy design 
  • Organisational learning and development strategy design. 
  • SWOT analysis on organisational learning and development strategy design.
  • Changes, including the addition of flexible learning, development and assessment strategies based on the SWOT analysis conducted. 
• Technology and systems requirements to support an organisational learning strategy 
  • Organisational technology and systems requirements to support the change recommendations to organisational learning strategy
• Continuous improvement processes associated with organisational learning and development strategies
  • Evaluation of the existing training organisation's continuous improvement processes associated with organisational learning and development strategies.
  • Improvement that can be made to the continuous improvement processes based on the analysis of previous steps.   
• Strategies for evaluation of learning and management strategies. 
  • Framework for review and evaluation of learning and development strategies. 
  • KPIs that will be used to evaluate the learning and development strategies. 
• Quality management compliance requirements as it relates to organisational learning
  • Quality management compliance requirements related to organisational learning. 
  • Quality management standards that the training organisation can use to monitor compliance of its learning and development strategy.   
• Analysis of the policies and procedures to manage the development, implementation and review of learning and development strategies. 
  • Three (3) policies and procedures to manage the development, implementation and review of learning and development strategies.
  • Purpose of each policy and procedures.   
• References and bibliography (Harvard style - Any five references)