Evaluative Report and Project Plan

Question: Discuss about the Evaluative Report and Project Plan. Answer: Introduction This report is based on essential concepts of training and development which is necessary at every workplace. The training process is implemented at every workplace according to its requirements and it is necessary that training and developing process should be effective to teach employees about working conditions of a particular workplace. To successfully run a training process, there is requirement of essential driving forces. According to Noe and Winkler (2012), there are some major driving forces exist that may influence training and development process such as sustainability, globalization, organizational strategy, technology, economic changes, customer services and quality emphasizing etc. All these driving forces are helpful to provide a successful training to staff members. The purpose of making this report is to discuss most significant driving force, among above mentioned driving forces for our current workplace. Besides this driving force we will select a general area that we wish to focus on for training development and its program. Next essential topic to discuss in this report is development of a basic project plan that is related to development and evaluating of training process at workplace. Most Significant Force for Training at Workplace Before start discussion about significant force for training at workplace, it is better to know basic meaning of training. Training basically refers to a planned effort by a company to learning of jobs competencies for an employee. The major competencies are skills, behavior and knowledge and these are critical for successful job performance. The main goal of a training is to master the knowledge, skill and behavior that emphasized in programs of training. Therefore, to implement this important process of training, there is requirement to have an effective driving force. The selected force to implement training process successfully is Technology. This has been selected as most the significant force for training process because at our workplace the use of advanced technology is required to compete effectively. At our workplace, sustainability and globalization are already in action for training process, but lack of usage of advanced technology at workplace in training and regular acti vities is poor. Therefore, we are enhancing use of advanced technologies in our organization, because it will help us to globalize our business more and to communicate overseas with clients and customers without problem. This is the main reason that we consider, technology most significant force for our workplace. The technology has reshaped the way of our working at business workplaces. Internet, smartphones and computers are best examples of technologies and these have made our work so simple and easier. E-Commerce or online business is also example of increasing business online. Therefore, the training for these techniques and tools has become so important for every business organization. Most of the potential customers demand for implementation of these techniques are at workplaces. General Area for Development of Successful Training Program For implementing a successful training program with a significant force at workplace, there is requirement to select a general developing area and that selected area is improvement in team work skills for process area. To run business projects successfully team work is important. An individual cannot complete a project, different employees are required to work together on a project to complete this on time and within budget. Therefore, we want to focus on this general area of team work. At our workplace, it is commonly encountered that employees do not response effectively in team work, even they have lack of knowledge to work in team. Therefore, to achieve an effective team work it will be better to develop training program in this general area at our workplace. There are some basic reasons that why we have selected this general area for training purpose and that reasons are listed as below: 1.From this training program about team work, employees will know how to effectively work in a team. 2.Through this training program, trainers will teach how complex projects can be resolved in teams by assigning different modules of work to every team member. 3.To complete projects within predefined deadline and budget, training program will be helpful. Good business outcome can be achieved. Due to above discussed reasons, we would like to implement training program for improving team work at our workplace. It is a significant way to improve areas where an organization is lacking and may encounter problems in competitive market. Development of Basic Project Plan by Training Design Process In above segments of report, we have already discussed about required force for training program and general area for this program at our workplace. Now in this segment of report, we will emphasize on development of basic project plan by using training design process. Training Design Process The training design process refers to a systematic approach that is used for developing training programs. There are some essential steps in this designing process that are required to follow and that steps are listed as below: Step1: it is to conduct needs evaluation and it is known as Conducting Needs Assessment. Step2: This step is to ensure that employees have motivation and basic skills that are required to master the training content. Step3: This step is related to creation of learning environment with features important for learning. Step4: This step ensures that trainees apply the training content at their jobs. Step5: It is required to develop an evaluation plan. Step 6: This step is related to selection of a training method that is based on learning objectives and environment. Step7: This step is concerned with evaluation of program and make changes in it. Now by using these training design process, we will develop a basic project plan on development and evaluation of training process that we want to implement at our workplace and this training process is for improving team work skills (SHRM, 2017). Project Plan by using Training Design Process for Team Work Improvement Directing Needs Assessment: Under this step of training design process for improving team work, we will evaluate actual needs for implementing team work. In this process, organizational analysis, person analysis and task analysis where team work is required, will be done. Ensure Willingness of Employees for Training It is an important step of training design process and under this step, willingness of employees is ensured to know that they have potential to work in a team or not. To achieve this, attitudes, motivation and basic skills of employees are analyzed. Creation of Learning Environment According to this step of design process of training, all requirements must be considered to create an effective learning environment. Therefore, to improve skills of team work at work place, we will create learning environment for this by considering some essential features such as learning objectives, practice, feedback, required and meaningful material, modeling and program administration. Ensure Training Transfer After implementing training process at workplace, it is essential to ensure that training is delivering to all employees or not. It is not an easy task to perform, but to achieve this, self-management and peer and manager support is required. The peer and manager support helps employees to manage their training at their own level by contacting with trainer and by asking queries regarding team work. On another side, in self-management it is responsibility of trainer to ensure about training transfer. Selection of Training Method The selection of training method is an important thing to do in process of training. It will be better to select a method that is easier to provide training to trainees. So to give training to improve team work, we have decided to use e-learning method that is so much easy to adapt by trainers and trainees can also understand easily with this. Monitoring and Evaluation of Program This is last step of training design process and it is related to monitoring and evaluation of program for which we are giving training. To evaluate that all employees are learning effectively about team work or not, we will conduct periodic evaluation, improve program and will make changes. In this way, by using above listed steps of training design process, we will develop our project plan for improving team work at workplace (Noe, 2012). Project Plan Resources Required Who will I need to Consult Who will I need to Inform Start Date Completion Date Notes Directing Needs Assessment Evaluate actual needs for implementing team work. Feedback of projects managers regarding a particular project, organizational analysis, person analysis and task analysis. Project managers and senior staff members Top Level Management 15-3-2017 18-3-2017 - Ensure Willingness of Employees for Training The willingness of employees is ensured to know that they have potential to work in a team or not. Attitudes, motivation and basic skills of employees are analyzed. HR Manager HR Department 19-3-2017 21-3-2017 - Creation of Learning Environment All requirements must be considered to create an effective learning environment. Consider some essential features such as learning objectives, practice, feedback, required and meaningful material, modeling and program administration. Professional Trainees in Business Organization Training Development Department 21-3-2017 22-3-2017 - Ensure Training Transfer To ensure that training is delivering to all employees or not. The self-management and peer and manager support is required. Trainees of a particular training process Training Development Department 23-3-2017 23-3-2017 - Selection of Training Method It will be better to select a method that is easier to provide training to trainees. Use e-learning method that is so much easy to adapt by trainers and trainees. It is possible in a way that trainees can get 24/7 hours accessibility of service and enhance collaboration in significant cost. Technical Expert Technical Department 24-3-2017 25-3-2017 - Monitoring and Evaluation of Program It is related to monitoring and evaluation of program for which we are giving training. Periodic evaluation, improvement in existed programs and implementation of new changes. Project Team Project Manager 26-3-2017 29-3-2017 - Figure: Template of Project Plan Conclusion After this whole discussion we can say that, in this report we have discussed about some important concepts to do work at workplace effectively. From these concepts we got to know importance of training, skills and qualification at a workplace and how employees and management should do efforts to give importance to these concepts and its implementation to run business in better way in this competitive world. References Noe, R., Winkler, C. (2012). Employee training and development (1st ed.). SHRM.(2017). How to Conduct a Training Needs Assessment. 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