The Role of Training Management in Business Success

• Understanding the strategic role of training managers.
• Learning and business alignment: Connecting L&D to organizational goals.
• Identifying workforce capability gaps and development needs.
• The future of corporate training: Trends, challenges, and opportunities.

Designing and Managing the Training Function

• Building a learning strategy and training operations framework.
• Managing learning budgets, cost optimization, and financial accountability.
• Designing scalable, agile, and learner-centered training programs.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory and industry training standards.
• Exercise: Drafting a training operations plan.

Vendor Management, Outsourcing, and Learning Technologies

• Selecting and managing training providers, consultants, and platforms.
• Crafting RFPs (Requests for Proposals) and evaluating vendor proposals.
• Building vendor relationships for long-term success.
• Integrating LMS (Learning Management Systems), eLearning, and emerging technologies.
• Exercise: Building a vendor management strategy.

Measuring Training Impact and Driving Continuous Improvement

• Applying Kirkpatrick’s Evaluation Model and ROI frameworks.
• Collecting, analysing, and reporting learning metrics.
• Building executive-ready learning dashboards and reports.
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement through data insights.
• Case Study: Measuring the ROI of a leadership development program.

Strategic Leadership of the Learning Function

• Building credibility for the training function with senior leadership.
• Partnering with HR, business units, and executive sponsors.
• Leading change management initiatives in learning and development.
• Building and sustaining a learning culture organization wide.