Training Expenditure or Investment?: Training Needs Analysis, Costing & Budgeting For Accelerated Rate of Return Course

Seminar Contents, Concepts and Issues
1) Organisational Control
2) Organisational Control Systems
3) Operational Control
4) Loading –
5) Sequencing -
6) Detailed Scheduling:
a) Other control mechanism include:
b) Inventory control
c) Cost control
d) Quality control
7) Budgeting As an Control Mechanism
8) Budgeting and the Controlling of Organisational Resources
9) Traditional methods of resource allocation.
10) Modern Approaches To Resource Allocation - Based on Assessment of the Potential of Subsystem to Succeed, In relation to prevailing environmental situation
11) Responsibility centres in the form of:
a) Revenue centres,
b) Expense or cost centres,
c) Profit Centres
d) Investment centres
12) Managing Organisational Resources
13) Relationship Between Strategic Management And Resource Management
14) Conflict Between Corporate And Operational Management In Relation To Resource Utilisation
15) The Functions of Management
16) Planning As A Function Of Management
17) Strategic Plans
18) Tactical Plans
19) Operational Plans
20) Standing Plans
21) Co-ordinating as a Function of Management: Training and Development Modification
a) Co-ordinating through Mutual adjustment
b) Co-ordinating through Direct supervision
c) Co-ordinating through Standardisation of work Process
d) Co-ordinating through Standardisation of input - skills, knowledge and attitudes
e) Co-ordinating through Standardisation of output
22) Costing and Cost-Benefit Analysis
23) Activity-Based Costing
24) Policy Planning and Budgeting Systems (PPBS)
25) Zero Base Budgeting
26) Paradigm-Based Budgeting
27) Process-Based Budgeting
28) Priority-Based Budgeting
29) Performance-Based Budgeting
30) Activity-Based Budgeting
31) Rationale For and Definition of Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
32) Organisational Training Needs Analysis
33) Subsystem Training Needs Analysis
34) Individual Training Needs Analysis
35) Approaches, Methods and Techniques of Training Needs Analysis.
36) Approaches to and Methods of Training Needs Analysis
37) Approaches to Training Needs Analysis
38) Methods of Training Needs Analysis
a) Focus Groups
b) Action Learning
i) Learning By Doing;
ii) Experiential Learning;
iii) Reflecting On Practice;
iv) Being Open;
v) Sharing Ideas;
vi) Collaborating;
vii) Synergy;
viii) Learning To Learn;
ix) Life-Long Learning; And
x) Learning In The Workplace.
xi) “Improved Strategic Thinking Ability;
xii) Understanding Group Processes And Organisational Change;
xiii) Improved Understanding Between Sections Of The Organisation;
xiv) Development Of New Skills (E.G. Leadership, Problem-Solving, Communication, Questioning. Presentation And Process Facilitation Skills);
xv) Ideas For Future Projects And Programs;
xvi) A Concrete Outcome Of Benefit To The Organisation And Program Participants; And
xvii) High Proven Returns On Investment In The Action Learning Program”.
c) Action Research
d) Process Management
e) Assessment Centres
f) TNA 2000
g) Techniques of TNA
39) Sources of Information for Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
a) Strategic Plans
b) Tactical Plans
c) Operational Plans
d) Strategic Operational Review
e) Human Resource Plan
f) Succession Plan
g) Human Resource Audit
h) Critical Incident Reports
i) Individual Performance Appraisal Reports
j) Personnel Deployment Charts
k) Business Plans
l) Strategic Plans
m) Job Evaluation or Job Tasks and Role Analysis
n) Client or Customer Feedback.
40) Throughput Accounting
a) Throughput Accounting: An Introduction
b) Determining whether a Programme or event Increases Throughput
c) Effect of Reducing Investment (Inventory) (money that cannot be used) in Business and Non-Business Organisations
d) Reducing Operating Expense
41) Efficiency Gains
a) Defining Efficiency Gains
b) Measuring Efficiency Gains
c) Improving Efficiency Gains
42) Substituting the concept of ‘Efficiency Gains’, in Throughput Accounting, for the Concept of Net Profit in Training Departments, as in:
a) Net profit (NP) = Throughput - Operating Expense = T-OE
b) Return on investment (ROI) = Net profit / Investment = NP/I
c) Productivity (P) = Throughput / Operating expense = T/OE
d) Investment turns (IT) = Throughput / Investment = T/I
43) Difference Between Education, Training and Development
44) Training and ‘Opportunity Cost’
45) Calculating Rate of Return From Training Investment
46) Investors In People (IIP): The British Model