Dear all,
I am in the process of designing a learning and development program that requires an L&D manual as a guideline. I am currently working in a small company that has a total of 15 employees.
Our Learning and development program is based on the following learning methods:
1- On the job Learning.
2- Off the job learning (Courses, Seminars, Certification,)
I am keen to know how to structure the L&D manual and how to design the L&D process itself. Im I supposed to include a model like the ADDIE?I have been heavily researching about this matter for the past few months and my brain have processed a lot of information that seemed to confuse me to the point of not being able to paint a perfect picture.
Any support, guidance or a sharing of a template or a manual would be helpful.
Regards,
Abdul
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I think this could be a good way to learn both on and off the job. As for the design, I'd say to use a lot of pictures and keep long paragraphs to one page per topic. Is the manual online or on paper like in the old days? Online, there could be links to articles and YouTube videos to help people find information slime rancher 2. You sound like every other teacher who wants to "paint a perfect picture," Abdul. We tend to do more than we should.
Hi Ady and Matthew,
Thank you both for your reply.
At the moment, I am using headings so my table of content includes the following:
1-Introduction ( The What)
2- The Importance of Training (The Why?)
3- Identifying Training Needs. (The How)
4-Developing Systematic Training & Development Program. (ADDIE MODEL) (The How, 2)
5- Training by Job Role (HR Analyst, Admin Assistant, etc.)
I am currently working on point number 4 which is developing the program it self. I am trying to make the ADDIE Model to work for me.
The Training by Role is easy but it is time consuming because I need to take each job we have and list all the training courses and tasks that needs to be done across four levels of professionalism. kind of similar to the CIPD four bands. it is also kind of a competency frame work.
Matthew, the manual is a paper based old school type of document that would be like the go to book for Training.
I will continue to work on it and update you guys.
Thanks again,
Abdul
Speaking from the perspective of a L&D student: As a secondary teacher, I designed curriculum through a process called Backward mapping:
I am thinking something like this might work for both on/off job learning. As far as design: I'd say plenty of graphics, keep wordy items to one page for single topics. Is the manual online or old school paper? Online could include links to articles, YouTube videos - for reference. Abdul, you sound like the typical teacher wanting "to paint a perfect picture". We are naturally overachievers.
I hope this helps,
Matthew
Hi Abdul,
Thank you for sharing your challenges. It's the right thing to do to share your views on here so that others can join you and help.
With the manual, I don't think there are hard and fast rules. For me there's a few things. Break up the text with some good visuals and some blank space to break the pages up. Also, I would encourage the use of headings. If you've not used these before, it's well worth getting in the habit. Not only will this help you customise the look of your headings it will also help you to create a table of content. Word picks up on the heading text you've used to automatically create this for you. You'll find more information about this here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-a-heading-3eb8b917-56d....
As far as the design of this goes, I personally like to stick to a model and ADDIE has always worked for me. Whatever model you use, it's the start point that I think that is crucial to getting the whole piece right. Whether you call this stage analysis, TNA, identifying learning needs or something else, it all means the same thing. Starting with the end in mind. The purpose. What are you setting out to achieve? What will success look like? How will this be measured?
I'm not sure if this is of any help Abdul. Keep the conversation going and let us know how you're progressing.
Good luck
Ady