Learning and Development Specialist: Duties, Skills, and Career Growth
November 22, 2024
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This course is part of HRCI Human Resource Associate Professional Certificate
Instructors: Brad Boyson
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How to create and deliver effective trainings in your organization
How to evaluate key metrics that will demonstrate training outcomes and results
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This course presents an overview of best practices for creating effective training in your organization. You will learn different methods of identifying training needs and delivering training. You will also learn how to evaluate the effectiveness of training programs.
By the end of this course, you will be able to: ● Create and deliver learning to your organization ● Explain and propose different methods to access the processes and outcomes of training ● Explain different ways to deliver training ● Evaluate key metrics that will demonstrate training outcomes and results No prior experience in Human Resources is needed to be successful in this course.
This week, you will learn about career lifecycles and how to structure a career development plan for an employee. You will also learn how to plan training and development for your organization.
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In the second week, you will learn about different learning models used in instructional design, including ADDIE, KSA, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and the Kirkpatrick Model, and how these apply to an organization’s training efforts. You will also discover different types of trainings that can be used and the best situations to use them. You’ll end the week by learning about adult learning and learning styles.
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This week is focused on different training delivery methods and how to evaluate the outcomes of these training to ensure their effectiveness. You’ll learn how to adjust the delivery of training and development based on the results of these evaluations.
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This week you will learn about training compliance and the necessity of employees completing mandatory training. You will also apply all you have learned in this course by designing a training experience based on a real-world scenario.
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I'm an university student. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the lecturers, HRCI and Coursera. This course is amazing.
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I appreciate that we do not have to review others work as a requirement.
Reviewed on Oct 22, 2024
The concepts learned were really helpful. I had never realized that L&D had so many things in the backend. Looking forward to applying this. Onwards to the next course!
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