Staff Development and Learning Management
SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows supports the full course management and administration process. Data is collected at the proposal, planning, application, and approval or nomination stages. Course planning and scheduling, course advertising, enrolments and attendance are all supported. If required, qualifications and competencies resulting from successful participation in the course can be held together with provider and trainer details. Course aims and objectives programme and agenda together with course materials can be recorded reducing duplicated effort often experienced in training delivery. It provides a means of fully incorporating training and development into overall business planning, as well as for organising and delivering all forms of training and development from traditional courses to open learning. And of course date clashes for trainers, events and delegates is standard to help with the practicalities of planning and scheduling. With SDMS V e-Training for Web Access this can be delivered via the web browser.
Planning Methodologies, Business and Training Plans
The SDMS V IIP Training Planner incorporates in the SDMS V product range the ability to design training plans using a variety of methodologies, with facilities to monitor and evaluate them against the training delivered. Whether you see this planning as a top down directive process or a bottom up consultative process or a combination of both the software provides tools to enable you to implement your particular model of planning.
Web and Intranet Access using SDMS e-Training for the Web
Using SDMS V e-Training for the Web provides extensive training management functionality combined with fully integrated Web and Intranet Access. This fully integrated system significantly extends the capacity of organisations to support their employees and managers with high quality training and development systems and information. Employee self serve, line manager course management, adminstration and tutor access with on line training needs analysis, course evaluation, and on line reporting are just some of the web based management tools offered by this innovative software.
With SDMS V e-Training employee development and training across multiple sites, in complex organisational environments, and where devolved training management is the norm can be delivered simply and cost effectively while at the same time promoting manager and employee involvement and ownership of development.
Collecting Group/School Needs
As part of SDMS V e-Training for the Web , SDMS V e-Group/School Needs enables groups, schools, organisations to login over the Intranet / Internet to record the training needs which have been identified during staff meetings, appraisals, or from the business plan or school development plan.
Using a Line Manager / CPD Coordinator login the nominated user of the system would have access and manage records for the group/school. The user can view the needs identified for each group/school in the training needs browse by selecting the view button against the group/school in the list. From here they can identify new needs by adding them into the browse or drill down to view details of the training needs identified during previous training needs analysis reviews.
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Need Details
Details of a Training Need are broken down in to a series of customisable and reportable categories. The Training Area and Specific Area define the subject of the training need. This could relate to the business plan or school development plan. This can be a useful way of maintaining a structured approach to training and needs. The Level can be used to identify whether the need is for basic or advanced information or it could categorise the skill level of the people who require it. A Training Significance can be given to identify what the training need is intended to improve, whether it focuses on business requirements or professional development. Different levels of urgency can be assigned to needs allowing the administrators to schedule training based on the greater needs focussing resources on immediate requirements. It can be useful to record where the need was identified, whether it was during an appraisal meeting or if it is part of a development plan, this is specified in the Process field.
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The final categorisation is the Status which identifies whether the need has been addressed, whether training is scheduled, if the need is satisfied and generally the progress toward it being satisfied. Each of these categories is completely definable so the needs can be specified in the exact manner required by the organisation.
The number of people intended to receive training for the need is identified in the Planned Number field. More specific details about the need can be entered into the Notes field.
Skills and Courses
Along with the general details of training needs, there is also the ability to identify specific qualifications, competencies and courses which staff have a requirement to obtain as part of the need. Where there may be the need for a group of staff who all need first aid training, a first aider’s qualification could be attached against the Training Needs rather than the attendance onto a particular training course on first aid.
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Any qualifications or competencies which are identified as being required could a basic first aid competencies such as applying bandages and slings and performing CPR.
How are these Group/School Needs utilised with SDMS Staff Development
Having taken time and effort to identify and analyse the group / schools’ training needs in the context of the business plan, SDMS Staff Development for Windows we make use of this information to assist us in planning and delivering staff development activities.
By recording these details within SDMS E-Training for the Web this information will then become available within the SDMS Staff Development application allowing the details to used to update the organisation business plan using the IIP Planner module. By collecting the specific needs these can then be collected together into the organisations plan.
The information which is collected for each group/school can be inherited down to each of the member within the group/school so that each person individual records as populated. So should a new training need whether all staff need to become competent in a particular skill this can be recorded as a group/school need and then donated to the staff.
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Another process in which this can be done is via the SDMS V Training Needs for Windows to match the training needs of employees to the training activities and courses available. All training needs identification processes, whether they are appraisal, performance management or surveys, tend to raise the not unreasonable expectation that something will be done with the information and that staff will be offered training better suited to their needs. The use of these matching functions within SDMS can help you do this.
Recording Individual Training Needs
Along with the ability to record your organisations requirement , where a particular training requirement has been identified either as part of appraisal or as a separate process the SDMS V e-Training Needs module provides a employees and managers with the ability to record and keep track of the training needs of their own training needs. This ensures that training delivered is directed to well established employee and business training topics. e-Training Needs allows training needs to be recorded flexibly and comprehensively and provides you with invaluable data for planning and evaluating the training delivered.
Reports
SDMS IIP Planner for Windows offers an impressive array of in-built standard reports. The vast majority of the reports are capable of being displayed in graph or pie-chart format. The breakdown of the graph is also shown on the table as well as a brief description of the report.
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