What would you do to achieve this? Explain how you think coaching or mentoring can contribute to encouraging employees to participate in continuous improvement processes. Coaching and mentoring are centred on unlocking a person ´s potential to maximise his or her own performance. A focus on improving performance and the development of skills is the key to an effective coaching relationship. To achieve this, Coaching and mentoring should be applied to the area you want to develop, such as motivating staff, delegating, problem solving, relationship issues, team building, and staff development.
Reflective practice is important to the development of lecturers as professionals as it enables us to learn from our experiences of teaching and make easier student learning. Developing reflective practise means developing ways of reviewing our own teaching so that it becomes a routine and a process by which we might continuously develop. Kolb’s Learning Style Model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles Kolb developed a theory of experiential learning that can give us a useful model by which to develop our practise. This
Unit 44 – Vocational Experience P5 - Explain how continuing development of staff influences practice in settings Staff development aims to promote and support individual and organisational capacity. It is the process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through educational and training opportunities in the workplace, outside the organisation and by watching others perform the job. It allows the organisation to have a higher quality of staff. Staff development doesn’t just rely on the courses and workshops an individual might take but also includes mentoring, formal qualifications i.e. degrees, coaching and self-directed study.
It provides opportunities to learn from your experience and develop your working practice. It is both a tool to help you analyse specific interactions or incidents that have occurred at work, as well as a method of working in the moment that is mindful and self-aware. 1.2. Explain the importance of reflective practice in continuously improving the quality of service provided? Reflecting on your practise is important as it can help you to focus on what you have done well and identify areas you may need to improve I.e.
Which provides and clarifies employees their new responsibilities, outcomes and most important individual performance. Feedback should be practiced for each individual employees via meetings, or other devices to reinforce team performance and effectiveness with intention of providing motivation for team 2. Why is encouraging participation in the planning, decision making and operational aspects of the team's work important for developing team cohesion, and what role does feedback play in doing this. Offering feedback and reinforcements is important because it commends and offers opportunities to review and reward its members for their contribution, and the standard of cooperation to the work produced. Investing feedback in developing team cohesion is vital for the teams dynamics to work, because it inhibits or enables employees to be more productive.
These goals need to link with the organisations goals and KPI’s to help create a more efficient workplace. These goals become your team’s/team member’s performance measures in the form of KPI’s, These KPI’s measure your team’s effectivness and assist in highlighting strengths and weaknessess in the team. 2) Create and maintain a supportive, committed team How members of a team relate to each other dictates how successful that team will be, so having a supportive and committed team is critical and can make a significant difference on the performance of individuals and the team as a whole. Establish your teams rules, the ground rule are a set of standards that address how
The general purpose of training analysis in the field of human resource education and training is to identify needs and describe the gap between current and optimal individual or organizational performance. You also consider how to use a needs assessment to identify areas of learning opportunities, and then select the appropriate training methods to optimize training effectiveness. You also need to explore strategies for evaluating employee training and development activities to ensure they are achieving the intended purpose. Training Program content and objectives The following training items will be covered in the training program for
Professionals, like you need to be aware of the importance of training & development, and the need to enhance your skills to stay effective in the workplace. Employers and institutions across industries are adopting a structured, practical and methodical approach to learning in order to retain key staff, and develop the
Transfer of training is more likely to occur when the trainees works on tasks during training (e.g., knowledge, equipment, of processes) that are very similar, if not identical, to the work environment (near transfer). Three theories of transfer of training have implications for training design. (the learning environment): which are listed below; Identical Elements- Training environment is identical to work environment. It was proposed in which it was postulated that transfer between activities would take place only if they shared common elements or features. Thus it was predicted that one’s training in addition would transfer to his ability to learn how to multiply.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. Describe three benefits of a performance linked learning system * Helps managers and human resources personnel to identify what learning is most important for improving the organisation's performance and to determine how best to implement a learning system that improves the organisation's performance capability. * Assists readers to develop the capability of all employees in a purposeful, systematic and continuous manner, so as to optimise the organisation's performance, profit contribution and long-term results. * Gives readers the tools to develop a purposeful, systematic and continuous performance-linked learning system that helps specify learning standards for the organisation and helps the organisation to reach and maintain those standards. 2.