Leadership in learning strategy

BSBLED802 Lead learning strategy implementation

This unit is about giving professional leadership in improving organizational learning and the quality of training and assessment products and services. This includes:

• Leading the formation of an Organizational Learning Strategy (OLS)
• Designing, developing and implementing it, and
• Reviewing and improving the organization's overall learning and development.

It applies to individuals working in an organization where learning is used to build organizational capability and contribute to strategies, business plans, goals and values.

 

How you will be assessed

You will be assessed through:

• Assessor observation on the job
• Supervisor reference (if the assessor is not the supervisor)
• Review of your workplace documents (e.g. procedures, research reports, consultation notes, proposals/memos, etc.)
• Interview/assignment based on the requirements below.

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Practical

You will be assessed in a safe environment that is typical of learning and development, with access to sufficient real situations to work and the following:

• organizational policies and procedures
• business technology, office equipment and resources
• real situations, and, where necessary, case studies
• interaction with others
• information on current training and assessment requirements.

You need to show that you have:

1. Researched and evaluated models and approaches to organizational learning to support strategic requirements
2. Examined and reviewed organizational policies and procedures relevant to training and assessment
3. Developed a system for consultation and communication to support and encourage personnel to give input into the design, implementation and review of your OLS including:
1. planning technological and systems requirements
2. creating in-built flexibility for change in organizational priorities
3. implementing appropriate processes.
4. Initiated and implement learning program partnerships in line with relevant regulatory, employment and organizational requirements
5. Sourced learning resources or assessment tools, and (if required) modifed them to meet requirements of the OLS
6. Implemented plans for improving the OLS.

 

Assignment

Write a 2000 word review of current literature on organizational learning theory. About literature reviews

 

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Interview/assignment questions

1. In your organization, who is responsible for what? For each one, what are the limits of their authority and responsibility?
2. How did you consult and communicate people in your organization to encourage them to give input into developing policy and procedure. Describe your system.
3. Describe four contemporary approaches to designing assessment strategy and instruments.
4. Describe the main features of contemporary OLS design and development.
5. Outline your system for continuous improvement for your OLS. How well does it work? What would you improve?
6. Explain the process of implementing a learning strategy.
7. What effects does the implementing of a learning strategy have on an organization?
8. What unintended consequences can arise?
9. Identify locations, types and sources of relevant organizational documentation
10. In your organization, what kinds of documentation are relevant to research? For each kind, say where it is kept and who generated it in the first place.
11. Describe three kinds of program evaluation strategies that can be used for learning strategies.
12. What is the difference between qualitative and quanitative kinds of program evaluation? What is the best use of each?
13. Describe your organization’s quality management system. What compliance requirements does it make of organizational learning?
14. Describe breifly two international e-learning compliance regimes.
15. Many programs are subject to a government authority that imposes compliance requirements and obligations. What compliance requirements and obligations affect your program? (E.g. the Australian Standards for Registered Training Organizations.)
16. What legislation, codes of practice and national standards are relevant to your job role?
17. What technology and systems requirements are useful to support an organizational learning strategy.

Note: Your assessor may also ask you a variety of what if questions.

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Detailed requirements

1.Give leadership in the formation of a organizational learning strategy (OLS).

1. Evaluate approaches to learning and workplace training against your organization’s strategic requirements
2. Analyse how an OLS will contribute to competitiveness, and confirm your conclusions with key stakeholders
3. Examine and review options for using quality policies and processes in your OLS.
4. Analyse the requirements for an OLS. Plan how they will support the strategic and policy requirements of your organization.
5. Analyse the technological and systems requirements for an OLS, and plan how you will use them.
6. Analyse your human resources and align it with your OLS, learning requirements, and plans.

 

2. Design and develop an OLS.

1. Design an OLS to achieve instructor, learner and organizational strategic requirements
2. Include relevant units of competency, modules from accredited courses or non-accredited training specifications in your OLS.
3. Develop flexible organizational learning strategies to permit and promote responsiveness of the organization to changed circumstances and priorities
4. Design and develop learning and assessment strategies to support organizational strategic requirements
5. Establish processes and procedures for allocating and managing resources and staff, required to implement organizational learning strategy
6. Structure compliant assessment and recognition policies and processes appropriate to organizational strategic requirements
7. Structure procurement and supply policies and processes appropriate to organizational strategic requirements

 

3. Implement an OLS.

1. Implement your OLS appropriate to your organization’s requirements
2. Validate organizational assessment methods and assessment tools so that they are consistent with learning and wider operational needs
3. Source learning resources. They should comply with specific international, national, industry and workplace needs)
4. Review policies and procedures. Check that they aare still relevant and operationally effective, and identify any gaps
5. Systematically evaluate the strategic outcomes of your OLS and update policies and procedures accordingly,

 

4. Review your organization’s learning and development

1. Write a procedure for systematic liaison with educators, learners and others
2. Use the liaison procedure to monitor how well learning strategies and learning resources are achieving your organization’s learning targets.
3. Monitor national policy and system changes, and incorporate them into your OLS and and your practices
4. Modify or design your OLS and learning resources to improve learning policies and procedures.

 

5. Improve OLS formation

1. Evaluate end-to-end implementation of your OLS.
2. Review the performance of resources and people involved in implementing the OLS.
3. Write and present plans for improving your way you developed an OLS.

 

6. Other.

1. Manage tasks and contingencies on the job.
2. Follow Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards, and industry codes of practice.

 

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