Follow the guidelines given below assuming that you have recently joined as a management trainee at a non-for profit organization, which is specializing in Soft Skills and Information Technology development in the local community.
Organisation's management trainees will be assigned to project groups, to be placed under a training and development executive and are required to produce documentation in the form of reports of their activities. Management trainees are required to provide evidence to the top management that they have been able to demonstrate interpersonal skills and have identified the need for continuous professional development (CPD) on a report titled “Work Related Learning Report”.
You have been asked to support your training and development executive with the planning and implementation of a professional development event targeted at a suitable audience to develop their soft skills and/or Information Technology related skills. Assume that you have to complete the design and delivery within a period of three months.
The training event you are to design can be scheduled to be delivered over a single or multiple sessions based on the requirements given by the target audience at a location agreeable to the target audience.
The training programme you develop can include a number of workshops, coaching sessions and team-building activities. The institution/audience you are planning to conduct the programme for would require a schedule of the types of activities proposed so that plans can be finalised.
Produce a professional schedule (preferably using a project management software) that identifies planning and resourcing prior to the event. In addition, design a training pack to include a range of activities, and breakout sessions. It is expected that you will be having considerable number of individuals attending. Please make sure that the location have necessary facilities.
Following the event, your training and development executive has asked you to provide some feedback and include it in your “Work Related Learning Report”. In the report, produce a written evaluation of the effectiveness and application of interpersonal skills during the design and delivery process. You should also include an evaluation of your performance in this project and evaluate your contribution to the team you worked with. Further, assume that you have been asked by the training and development executive to produce evidence in the report that you have designed and delivered the training event based on the dynamics of team working.
The report you produce also should have section allocated to discussing problem solving and its importance in planning and running the event you have conducted. Your report should include a discussion of various problemsolving techniques and justify the solution methodologies used during your project. You should also include a critique of the application of critical reasoning and your experiences of it.
Having completed the Training Event Management project, you now need to reflect on your experience and consider your Continuous Professional Development (CPD) needs add a section on the to your “Work Related Learning Report” containing following subsections.
a. Consider your personal and/or career goals and identify your CPD needs and what actions would put you in a position to achieve these goals. Produce a development plan outlining your future goals and identifying how these can be realised.
b. Conduct some research into motivational theories and how they can be used to improve employee performance. Compare a number of theories and report on them.
c. Write a section on the usage of CPD within organisations and what evidence would be required to measure how effective this CPD is in helping employees achieve their goals while using their time and resources effectively.
Im Stephen Smith and working as event coordinator focusing in event planning and delivering specialized in IT and Soft skills. The focus of company is to organize plan and deliver IT / Soft skills training sessions to target audience to enhance their knowledge and skills.
The primary goal is to target set of audience and identifying their problems and constraints. An then design a plan to deliver IT and soft skill training which they can make a best use out of it. Primarily we do identify what are the resources they have and what we have to provide to gaps to successful completion of the training.
Students of grade 9 in VBS academy in Gampola are selected as target audience in this project. The school has a computer lab with minimum resources. But the students are not making good use of resource they have and we take this as good opportunity to train them on IT and soft skills so that they can use full use out of their limited resources.
There are 5 members (including me) in our team For all the 5 members the responsibilities and works were divided. We did not allow any favoritisms among us, and all the team members worked with the full cooperation and successfully completed the project.
The forming, storming, norming, performing model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965. The model explains that as the team develops maturity and ability, relationships establish, and leadership style changes to more collaborative or shared leadership.
The initial forming stage is the process of putting the structure of the team together. Team members then look to a group leader for direction and guidance.
This stage begins to occur as the process of organizing tasks and processes surface interpersonal conflicts. Leadership, power, and structural issues dominate this stage.
At this stage team members identifying new ways of doing things as a team. Aa team develops members learn structure, talents, politeness, dedication in members and change of leadership or sharing of leadership may happen at this stage
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