AboutLeo Lingham Expertise Questions include managing work situation, managing work relations,
managing your boss, personal problems, career planning, career
development, training, coaching, counseling etc
Experience 18 years working managerial experience covering business planning,
strategic planning, management services, personnel administration etc
plus
24 years of management consulting in business planning, strategic planning, human resources development, training, business coaching,
etc
Question How have our workplacs changed over the past 10 yrs acc. to you? And how has this change impacted the training and development functions?
Answer DEEPTI,
HERE IS SOME USEFUL MATERIAL.
REGARDS
LEO LINGHAM
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How has the workplace changed in the past 10 years according to you? What is the impact of these changes on training and development functions?
THE WORKPLACE HAS CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY
DURING THE LAST 10 YEARS.
IT HAS BECOME
-seeking excellence in business operation.
-seeking diversity in the workplace
-seeking challenging results.
-seeking continual challenges.
-action oriented culture
-innovation in outcomes
-becoming very globalized
-seeking worklife balance
-seeking high efficiency
-seeling high effectiveness
-seeking high level skills
-seeking very knowledgeable workforce
etc etc
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WITH THE WORKPLACE CHANGES ,
THE TRAINING/DEVELOPMENT EMPHASIS WOULD BE ON
1. ideas and practices that might be considered more widely include:
initiatives connecting company and industry policies so that training implications are considered as a matter of course
initiatives which consider the implications for the company of the innovations they are supporting , e.g. industry clusters
initiatives incorporating collaboration across COUNTRY borders
efficient use of the worldwide web to disseminate information and collect data
initiatives which demonstrate learning from previous experience
attention to resourcing issues
initiatives which enable company staff to increase their expertise in new areas
initiatives which build on established expertise in the company, and
initiatives which seek to develop new specialisations in the company.
2. Technology-related skills
Skills in identifying new applications of technologies
Skills in developing new technologies, or advancing existing technologies
Skills in identifying technological solutions to problems
3. Management skills
Skills in identifying which innovation outcomes are appropriate for commercialisation
Skills in knowing when and how to market a new product, tool or process (or other innovation outcome) successfully
Skills in securing intellectual property rights over innovation outcomes
Skills in setting up efficient manufacturing processes for new products
Skills in negotiating appropriate training provision with education and training providers
4. Operative/Technical skills
Skills in operating new tools or equipment, or applying new methods/processes
Skills in applying new processes or tools to existing work
Skills in installing and maintaining new products, and
Skills in manufacturing new products.
If new and changed skill needs are to be met, access to appropriate education and training is essential. Access must also be provided in a timely fashion so that the skills required for an innovation to be implemented effectively are available when needed. An enterprise will not gain the benefits from installing new equipment if its workers do not have the skills to operate it properly. Finding or providing the right training, in time, can present a challenge. The difficulties some employers are facing in finding effective ways of keeping workers up to date with technological changes especially the convergence of technologies
It is useful if the T&D SYSTEM adopt an Innovation Policy aimed at driving innovation by:
?? Building an educated and highly skilled workforce.
?? Becoming a leader in knowledge creation and innovation.
?? Developing linkages, clusters and networks to become a more integrated and networked local economy.
?? Fostering high levels of enterprise formation and business growth.
?? Becoming a globally focused and internationally integrated economy.
?? Creating a business environment and infrastructure base that facilitates business success.
establishing a culture of innovations. Based on these building blocks it provides support for a range of initiatives under the headings:
?? Co-operative Research Centres
?? Knowledge and Technology Diffusion
?? Technology, Research Parks and Precincts
?? Education
?? Commercialisation
?? Awareness and Promotion
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