TrainingZone Live 2011 brought together a range of leading learning and development thinkers and practitioners. We managed to catch up with a few of them to hear more of what they talked about.
Jim Kirkpatrick
Key points from interview:
- Start with the business rather than end with it - start with level 4 of the Kirkpatrick Business Partnership Model
- Find the advocates for training
- Start of return on expectations is agreeing what success looks like for the training intervention
- Need for a new mindset for training professionals
- Identify success and build bridge from learning to behaviour.
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Donald H Taylor, chairman of the Institute of IT Training
Key points from interview:
- The session looked at the presuures on the training department and what we can do about these with a focus on skills
- Key pressures: money, time, managers wanting skills training but not giving employees enough time for it
- What are classrooms good for including emulation - watching others and emulating them
- Key for L&D professionals is to provide different delivery mechanisms for providing content
- Future focus for L&D teams will be on these four areas: capability building, performance support, individual learning support and organisational skills support.
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Denise Hudson-Lawson, head of ICT training and coaching for the Houses of Parliament
Key points from interview:
- L&D must get out of the classroom
- L&D must focus on getting well positioned in the business
- Understand the business and provide solutions that the business requires
- Bring together the subject experts and the training experts
- Find a senior executive champion for L&D
- Marketing key to visibility of team in the business.
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Nick Hindley, training, development and organisational effectiveness manager at PPD
Key points from interview:
- Great range of speakers
- Style of presentations - dynamic, not static
- Good delegate participation
- High quality of delegates
- Exchange of best practice.
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