Part B

Task:

Scenario

You have been appointed as the Training Manager at "PEC Consultants". PEC consultants are education consultants. Over the last six months, their business has been slowing down. PEC Consultants is a Nationally Registered RTO.

The senior managers of the organisation have realised that they are struggling to keep the skills of the team up to date and because of poor project work delivery, they are losing large-scale organisations contracts.To improve the skills and knowledge of the team members, Ron (Director) and Ben (Operations Manager), have decided to engage you, the Training Manager to develop a learning strategy and implement that strategy.

As the Training Manager, you are responsible for the PEC Consultants' learning and development. The first step is to provide leadership in the formation and development of a learning strategy.

Questions:

You need to design and develop an organizational learning strategy.

In this part of the project, you must design and develop an organizational learning strategy. When developing the learning strategy, consider the learning/e-learning objectives in the organization's strategic vision.

1. For the designing and development of the learning strategy consider the following key points:

• The learning strategy should be designed to include the requirements of instructors, learners and organizational strategic requirements.
• Include relevant units of competency, modules from accredited courses or non-accredited training specifications in the organizational learning strategy.
• The learning strategy to be flexible and promote continuous improvement in the system.
• Learning strategy should promote the responsiveness to changed circumstances and priorities.

2. In the development stage of a learning strategy, it is important to clearly define all the process for smooth implementation of the learning strategy for that purpose as a specialist you need to consider following important key processes:

• Simplify the steps of resource allocation to establish processes or modify the existing process and procedures for allocating and managing the resources and staff required to implement the organizational learning strategy.
• Structure compliant assessment and recognition policies and processes appropriate to organizational strategic requirements.
• Structure procurement and supply policies and processes appropriate to organizational strategic requirements.
• Ensure that the learning strategy is complying with all relevant legislation.

3. To implement the learning strategy, you need to list clear steps for all the processes above.

4. Develop a learning strategy manual for PEC consultants. Guide through clear instructions as well as clear explanations of all the steps or process and procedures related to the learning strategy.