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An end-to-end solution on training content design & development increased the effectiveness of L&D program and resulted in higher Return on Investment (ROI).
Overview
A leading Indian industrial manufacturing company was looking for content design & development solution for their Instructor led training program on Procurement & SCM functional skills.
Challenges
- Generic training interventions with irrelevant context.
- Limited attention to learning due to irrelevant external training content.
- Minimal impact of generic trainings despite time, efforts, and money investment.
- Lack of structured & targeted training content for better assimilation & learning.
Solutions
Our comprehensive & tailor-made solution on content design & development allowed significant flexibility combined with high learning impact.
Around 15 procurement & SCM related areas were identified for customized content design & development.
Various work streams included –
- Analysis of audience profile & its learning requirement.
- Layout overall curriculum structure of training program.
- Review curriculum with internal SMEs and define the areas of customization.
- Regular cycles of drafting content in consultation with internal & external SMEs.
- Instructional design & development to optimize flow & language of content.
- Graphic design to enhance look & feel of storyboards.
- Development of learning assets – Facilitator Guide, Handout, Assessment, Job-aids etc.
- Deployment of trainings through Train-the Trainer (TTT) model.
Results
A comprehensive long-term learning solution enabled focused learning & better assimilation along with flexibility towards learning initiatives.
Key outcome of this exercise included –
- Better training ROI since content creation is a one-time effort.
- Cost of any relevant updates from time-to-time is minimal.
- Customized content made the training relevant & effective.
Invest in development of content creation
for effective learning & better ROI
for effective learning & better ROI
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