Training plan requirements

What should I consider when developing a training plan?

Return on Investment for training is an area of huge interest and benefit to the organisation – if done right. As a metric it is time-consuming to calculate and doesn’t take into consideration the many factors at play in an organisation.

What is useful to consider is a list of factors designed by Paul Donovan and David P. Darcy in Ireland, listed below are the key factors. Take a look at the list and evaluate for yourself the real factors that determine the successfulness of a training intervention. It is fair to assume, that organisational factors have an impact on the success of the training intervention.

Factors

• Trainer effectiveness
• Perceived relevance
• Job design
• Organisational support for learning
• Motivation to attend
• Quality focus
• Training event climate
• Trainer understanding of context
• Job autonomy
• Clarity of the Individual’s job
• Peer support
• Training linked to purpose
• Career utility
• Organisational linkage
• Learning transfer management
• Management expectation
• Organisational structure
• Opportunity to use
• Location of training function
• Decentralisation of the training function
• Individual rewards

Helpful resources

International Journal of Training and Development [ISSN 1360-3736]: Volumne 15, Number 2 "Learning transfer: the views of a practitioners in Ireland" by Paul Donovan and David P. Darcy.