How would you know if training can solve your business problems? How do you find out which employees need training, and on what skills and competencies?

With limited budgets, organizations are under pressure to ensure that their training dollars are targeted at areas that assure positive return on investment. Effectiveness of learning and development initiatives depends on knowing what is required – for individuals, for departments, and for the entire organization. Training Needs Analysis, therefore, is a vital prerequisite for initiating a training program.

Our experienced consultants can take up Training Needs Analysis (TNA) to assess your organization’s training requirements. They identify the business issues that can be resolved through training interventions, and suggest suitable learning solutions. They assess the existing levels of skills and competencies of target audiences, establish the levels required, and produce a Gap Analysis. The findings from the TNA form the basis for the design of the training solutions that they then propose.

Curriculum Development

We believe that a learner-centric approach, where the needs of the learner are the focus and genesis of all design considerations, yields the most effective curriculum design. Our experienced instructional designers are well versed in the use of strategies such as Active Learning, Blended Learning, Just-in-Time Learning, and various combinations of formal and informal learning to design curricula that guaranty the desired outcomes.

Methodologies used for curriculum development vary to suit the specifics of the case. However, all variations include the five essential elements: Planning, Visioning, Assessment, Improvement & Alignment, and Monitoring & Adaptation.

Our instructional designers work as extensions to your team, collaborating closely with your Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and others to analyze source-content, define learning objectives, map content to learning goals, and formulate assessment strategies. The roadmap to the successful completion of a curriculum is reviewed, every detail scrutinized, and each stage rehearsed before it is rolled out to the audience.

Staff Augmentation

We can depute skilled personnel to work with you as an extension of your team. We have partnered with many of our clients to deliver complex projects on time, to expected quality, and within budget, and our staff augmentation services have played a vital role in the success.

Scenario / Role Based Learning

In keeping with our learner-centric approach to curriculum design, we have garnered considerable expertise in implementing scenario-based learning solutions for our clients. Scenario-based learning stands apart from the myriad instructional design theories and models in its exceptional effectiveness in learner engagement, which is arguably one of the biggest challenges in learning design today.

Rooted in principles of Situated Learning Theory and Situated Cognition, scenario-based learning leverages the theory that learning best happens in the context in which it is going to be used. It builds on problem-based learning or case studies by packaging them in interactive scenarios that provide the context for learning. It thus immerses learners in real life or situational simulations which compel them to gather skills or information that they will recall for future use. Information offered in this way in a contextual setting enables learners to not only manage it in short term memory but also easily transition the information to long term memory, thus increasing retention.

Over the years we have developed and fine-tuned our scenario-writing skills. The scenarios we write/use ensure that:

• The context of the scenarios are realistic enough to engage the learners without using extraneous information that could distract them from the learning goals
• They challenge the learners without overwhelming their mental faculties
• They do not lead to information overload for the learners
• Interactivity is maintained at a high level — learners learn by doing, rather than by reading