Question

As a training professional, many times you will be required to create supporting documentation that offers clear direction and recommendations for a client. This supporting document comes in the form of a design document for our purposes.
Additionally, this information can be used as a point of reference for training team members while developing the associated learning materials.

Question:
Create a design document with the following elements:

1. Executive Summary
2. Learning theory to be used

Answer 1

The training design will include a lot of information like the number of people to be trained and how the training will be conducted, time, date, venue of the training, who will be conducting the training etc. So, to mention the important parts the design will include topics like:

• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• Objectives of Training
• Executive Summary
• Contents of Training
• Methods of Training
• Learning Outcomes

Let's understand Executive Summary and Learning Theory to be used in detail.

1) Executive Summary

Executive Summary provides a brief introduction to the topic of a background of the project work done in a summarized format for clear understanding to the reader in gist, just to give a reader a brief idea of the concept.

Training is important for all the employees in organization and at every level for their over all development to achieve the desired results. It is the most important task in any organization because it helps the employees to continuously learn new things and keep themselves updated with the changes happening in the environment. It helps the people to be aware of the new technologies and how it can be put to use with their day to day work to make it more simplified. Thus, training and development activities play a very important role in the overall development of the organization as well as the employees which leads to fulfilling of the individual as well as the organizational goals.

2) Learning Theory to be used

Various theories used for Human Resource Development in an organization is as follows:

ERG Theory - Refers to existence needs, Relatedness needs and Growth needs. Its an expansion or an addition to the need hierarchy theory given by Abraham Maslow. This theory refers to the fact that the employees need all these three things to be motivated in the organization.

Information Processing Theory- This theory is based on the mental or cognitive behaviour of an individual how they process the information provided to them or they distinct the sensatory information from the non sensatory information.

Need Hierarchy Theory- This theory is given by Abraham Maslow. as per this theory the needs are classified as basic/ Primary, Safety needs, Belongingness, Esteem needs and self actualisation needs.