3441 - Developing & Delivering Learning Programs
Course Description
If you are leading an L&D project or team, or are part of a team, understanding L&D within an organizational context can help you make more strategic and effective decisions – for your organization, team and career. By taking a holistic perspective, you’ll enhance your ability to examine the role of L&D in relation to your or your client’s strategic plan and mandates; appropriately scope, resource and finance projects; and learn how to develop persuasive and informative business cases. You’ll learn about change management models and tools and how to apply these concepts to your current projects, team or organization.
Catalog Course Description
If you are leading an Learning & Design project or team, or are part of a team, understanding Learning & Design within an organizational context can help you make more strategic and effective decisions – for your organization, team and career. By taking a holistic perspective, you’ll enhance your ability to examine the role of Learning & Development in relation to your or your client’s strategic plan and mandates; appropriately scope, resource and finance projects; and learn how to develop persuasive and informative business cases. You’ll learn about change management models and tools and how to apply these concepts to your current projects, team or organization.
Learning Outcomes
After completing this course you’ll be able to:
- Research, develop and present a business case for a learning and development project
- Evaluate and select the appropriate resources and technology for learning and development projects
- Analyze the management, cost and risk issues associated with deploying an learning and development project
- Describe the foundational aspects of change management and the critical role project manager’s play in the change process.
This course may be applied towards the SCS Certificate(s) in
- Learning Design : Required Courses
Tom Packwood has enjoyed a 28-year career in Canadian financial institutions. During this time, he has worked as a financial advisor and a branch manager in retail banking before moving on to roles in executive offices, with a focus on employee development. In this capacity, Tom has designed sales and service processes and introduced wealth management and small business banking throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America. He has lead the design and delivery of employee training and development programs in North and South America and Asia, most recently leading employee development for Wealth Management and Wholesale Banking. Tom is also a part-time instructor at two Toronto colleges, where he teaches a course on front-end analysis and training needs assessment – part of the schools’ certificate programs in Instructing Adults.