Assessment - Training & Related Tasks

The aim of this assessment is to deepen theoretical understanding and practical skills in analysing, planning, designing, developing and evaluating a training session

- The formal part of this assessment requires students to complete the training topics form by advising: your details; which cultural and/or logistical content you will cover; and in which country/culture/region. This component is not worth any marks but must be completed. The idea of submitting this form early in the study period is to encourage you to engage in this content early and to get you undertaking some preliminary research.

o Please note that the revised version of this form does not specify how many topics to choose. This is done intentionally to allow for you to make a decision on what would be reasonable given the time frame and content which interests you.

o You can pick from any combination of content areas from the list or you can elect to choose just one. Students have a choice of running a 20-60 minute session and in that time they will likely choose to do one or two areas of content. It is certainly possible to do more however consider what would be a feasible quantity of content to cover given the time you have available and the duration of your activities.

o If students during the process of their research decide to change or reduce their topic/s or country, then this is allowable. Should a student or group wish to make a change then they do not need to update their submitted training form. Simply advise which content and country you have selected in your training session plan (as per the below underlined task).

Perform a training needs analysis and submit the results

- Students will develop a Training Needs Analysis (TNA) questionnaire to ensure that their training is learner focused. The TNA should utilise a variety of relevant qualitative and quantitative questions to explore information such as: learner needs, their interest in the topic, and the learners preferred methods of delivery/engagement

- To assist with improving participation rates the TNA questionnaire should take participants no more than 10 minutes to complete.

- In terms of participation rates, it is expected that you should receive at least ten responses from your peers

- Students should distribute and collect responses to the TNA before beginning to design their training sessions

- Students may choose to distribute their TNA via an online tool such as a Google Form. Provision of this link may best be done via the Discussion Board forum.

- Students are encouraged to be supportive by reciprocating participation in the completion of the TNA's from their peers

- A copy of the TNA questionnaire and the collated results (not individual) will need to be submitted prior to the group training session. The results should be collated, clear and concise. You are welcome to present the results in a word or PDF document. Graphs and tables would work really well in presenting some of the quantitative data. Responses to qualitative questions can be made into word clouds or a selection of quotes indicative of the sample can be presented instead. Review the Google Form video information and do some YouTube searching for inspiration on how you can report the results.

Develop a detailed training session plan

- The session plan should contain at minimum, the following:
o Topic title
o Names and student ID's of student/s in your group (i.e. group members not participants)
o Detailed description of the training including overview of sections/content to be covered
o Date, time and location
o Training session length
o Target audience (here you need to set the context and consider who are you training? refer to the background and task information under the training topics form). As an example you might include: 'Business managers heading to Japan to live and work for six months who are tasked with recruiting local staff' or 'Technical specialists heading to China to setup a new IT system over a twelve month period''
o Learning objectives (which are SMART and Performance, Standard, Condition focused) - refer to collaborate session 2.
o Room layout
o Resources required
o Detailed overview of introduction, conclusion and each activity/engagement/collaboration exercise
- What is involved in this activity/engagement/exercise?
- Who will be running it?
- What length of time is devoted to this?
- What is the expected learning that will take place?
- How, during the session, will learning be assessed?