Keeping Up – Training and Development

Training and development

Identification of needs, training design, and evaluation. Designing, implementing and evaluating teaching programs aimed at enhancing the skills and abilities of workers.

Key Tasks

• Training needs Analysis
• Designing a range of training materials
• Delivering training
• Evaluation of training
• Developing Induction programmes
• Worker mentoring such as for management positions.
• Individual development planning
• Succession planning
• Coaching

Internet Links

• American Society for Training and Development
• Training Portals
• The Training Registry
• Simulation Training Systems
• Australasian Evaluation Society (AES)
• International Society for Coaching Psychology

NZ Research

 

• Donald A.J. Cable (2013). The Career Experiences of Industrial and Organisational Psychology. The New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 42 (1).
• Waitoki, W. (2012). The Development and Evaluation of a Cultural Competency Training Programme for Psychologists Working with Maori: A Training Needs Analysis. (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
• Bryson, J. and Hosken, C. (2005). What Does it Mean to be a Culturally Competent I/O Psychologist in New Zealand?. The New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 34 (2).
• Jackson, D.J.R., Carr, S.C., Edwards, M., Thorn, K., Allfree, N., Hooks, J., and Inkson, K. (2005). Exploring the Dynamics of New Zealand’s Talent Flow. The New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 34 (2).
• Singer, M. (1989). Gender differences in leadership aspirations. The New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 17 (2).
• Electronic Journal of Radical Organization TheoryGeneral Training

 

Networks

• Academy of Management Online
• Center for Quality of Management
• Conferences
• Evaluation Aotearoa
• Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management
• Regional IO Psych Chat Groups
• The Management Library (has hundreds of management journals)

Other Activities

• Ask a peer to critically review your work
• Prepare or review a best practice guideline in the area
• Aim to read an article regularly and review it for the practical implications for your work
• Canvas a post graduate University Course to refresh your approach and be exposed to the latest literature