Scenarios: Team building for 30 professional and support staff in a Singapore Esplanade Theatre (Lights/Sounds control department)
Assessment Criteria
- Arial font
- 12 point
- Numbering of page
- Covering page
- Appropriate headings
- Proper Harvard referencing and in text citations
- Relevant Appendices
- Content page
Individual L&D Report
L&D report (3,500 words +/- 10%) will be a full written response to your L&D scenario, demonstrating your understanding of the frameworks of good practice, based on the theories, models and concepts we discuss during the module, and your ability to apply these for L&D analysis, design, delivery and evaluation.
Your L&D report should contain seven (7) sections as follows:
- Introduction
Explaining your L&D scenario and the requirements of the brief.
You should undertake research to enable you to explore the themes of your scenario in order to make reasonable assumption about the relevant organization; its business context; the profile of the trainees/ learners concerned; the roles and responsibilities for L&D; budgets and costs, as appropriate.
- Organizational context
Exploring the principles underlying good practice L&D using appropriate definitions, theories and models, and making reasonable assumptions where appropriate, to support your analysis:
- Strategic: what is the organization’s strategy, mission, vision, aims or values? Refer to Barham et al (1988)
- Business-led: what are the PESTLE factors influencing its L&D requirements? Refer to Barham et al (1988)
- Horizontal integration: define and give example of how this is/could be achieved
- Structure and culture: Refer to Handy (1985)
- Adding value (define and give examples of how this might be achieved)
- Consideration of the associated L&D budget and costs of your proposals (reasonable estimates are acceptable)
- Needs Analysis
Discuss the techniques and processes used in L&D needs analysis, then focus on how these could be used in response to your scenario to determine the knowledge, skills or attitude (KSA) requirement for your trainees/ learners and how you will evaluate the achievement of your objectives.
- Design
Discuss learning theories (eg Honey & Mumford, Kolb, Knowles) and their application to the design of the L&D solution you propose for your scenario.
- Delivery
Discuss the range of L&D methods available and focus on those you consider most appropriate for delivery of the proposed response to your scenario.
- Evaluation
Discuss L&D evaluation techniques including Kirkpatrick’s (1960) model, ROI and ROE and specify how you would evaluate the L&D solution you have designed and delivered in response to your scenario.
A complete, well written and presented group response, which demonstrates sound understanding of the principles of good practice L&D, and the ability to apply these for analysis and recommendations.
- Referencing
It is critical that where relevant in text citation and appropriate referencing in HARVARD format be adhered. In the event where references are missing or not cited could tantamount to plagiarism. In such case, the essay would be graded as “FAILED”.
