Identifying learning opportunities
Featured in the Developing People: The Manager's Role training manual
By Caroline Love
Category: People Management and Motivation
Credit price: 3 download credits (Single user)
Learning opportunities do not only occur on formal training courses. As human beings in continuous development, we are learning all the time. This training activity enables participants to identify and harness the informal, and often accidental, experiences that contribute to learning.
You provide a short introduction to the training activity, promoting the idea of continuous learning for life and work by harnessing formal and informal learning opportunities. Participants work in small groups to develop a list of learning opportunities to do with life and work and specify whether these learning opportunities are formal, informal, on or off the job. Then, in small groups, participants work on a case study to determine possible opportunities to meet identified learning needs and explore the pros and cons of identified learning opportunities. In the final part of the training activity, the participants work in pairs to describe the learning opportunities they have created for their staff in the past and to reflect on any changes they will make for the future. The training activity ends with a plenary discussion drawing together and summarising the main points.
Who is it for: This training resource is intended for use by trainers to show participants that development is about more than just going on training courses.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 02:20:00 |
| No of Pages: | 13 |
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Purpose: This training resource is intended for use by trainers as part of a programme on developing people: the manager’s role and, ideally, should be used after completing the training activity, ‘Identifying individual learning and development needs’. This training activity can also be used in management development, staff support and supervision and training for trainers programmes.
Download the training activity, Identifying learning opportunities as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing People: The Manager's Role