Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool Business School

Learning Methods

Workshop

Module Offerings

7002LBSPPA-JAN_NS-MTP

Aims

The Senior People Professional Apprenticeship is designed to transform participants into confident and strategic people leaders. It focuses on Improving people practices in organisations in order to drive organisational performance and effectiveness. This module aims to explore and apply knowledge, skills and behaviours relating to Learning and Development specialism.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Critically evaluate and reflect upon personal identity and evidence and its relationship to current context.
2.
Critically appraise personal strengths, areas for development and generate a personal development plan incorporating SMART targets for both intrapersonal and interpersonal development.
3.
Critically reflect upon effective leadership development as a senior professional developing strategies and approaches to support and enhance innovative practice to effectively align the building of individual competencies with organisational business making decisions.
4.
Critically evaluate a range of learning design theories to be applied to organisational development needs
5.
Critically evaluate different channels, methods and approaches to select appropriate solutions to meet the development needs of organisations
6.
Critically analyse and develop coaching and mentoring capability and capacity to support the culture and development of practice
7.
Critically evaluate and apply the skills and knowledge required to initiate and drive an appropriate coaching and mentoring strategy to enhance the effectiveness and capability of people within an organisation
8.
Critically evaluate a range of learning design theories to be applied to organisational development needs
9.
Critically analyse multiple data sources to develop an understanding of the learning and development needs situation.
10.
Develop a critical awareness and ability to communicate the findings to relevant stakeholders within the organisation.
11.
Critically appraise the selected facilitation approach, tools and techniques employed within the learning session.
12.
Critically analyse the role of technology in support and enhancement of learning and development.
13.
Critically evaluate approaches which aim to measure learning and development for individuals, teams and organisations.
14.
Critically reflect on learner and stakeholder evaluations in order to inform and enhance future practice.
15.
Demonstrate a critical awareness of how macroenvironmental and microenvironmental situational factors impact people management and practice and strategic business decisions
16.
Critically evaluate the role of values, behaviours, and organisational citizenship and how this can drive business effectiveness and performance
17.
Critically explore the role and impact of corporate social responsibility and ethical and inclusive organisational practices.
18.
Critically analyse the development of specific people practices including diversity, inclusion, belonging and wellbeing
19.
Examine the impact of changing business contexts on complex organisations and the resulting critical challenges
20.
Analyse workplace situations and take justified decisions with effective use of financial resources.
21.
Critically evaluate the competing business, legislative, ethical and social drivers for equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging
22.
Critically evaluate the integration of people management and practices with business strategies and culture
23.
Critically explore people practices focussing on how development can enhance both organisational success and employee inclusion and engagement
24.
Critically discuss the strategic purpose, role and impact people professionals can have on areas of the business.
25.
Demonstrate a strategic understanding of people development initiatives and practices within an organisation.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
This is the shell module SPPA detailing the duties and KSBs for Learning and Development. 

Duty 1- 12 (Generic)

Duty 19-24 (L&D)

 
Module Overview:
 This module aims to explore and apply knowledge, skills and behaviours relating to Learning and Development specialism.
Additional Information:
Knowledge, skills and behaviours relating to generic and specialist (L&D) route.

K1: The employee lifecycle and the range of people practices that underpin it, including relevant regulation, compliance, governance and relevant law and how to develop policy in line with this. 

K2: Organisational culture, theories and concepts, organisational behaviour, models and theories of human behaviour, ethics, values and beliefs. 

K3: Business acumen, including organisational strategy creation, strategic planning tools (including business cases) and trends in the wider business context as well as drivers of organisational performance and methods of measuring organisational data. Knowledge of financial and commercial information and value for money principles. 

K4: Methods of measuring value and impact and types of analytical tools relating to creating value for an organization as well as methods of evaluating opportunity costs including qualitative and quantitative metrics. 

K5: Ways in which technology supports the delivery of people practice and enables collaboration and the risks, opportunities and impact of technology on ways of working, both in the wider organisation and in the people profession, including how social media fits with the organisational communication strategy. 

K6: Change methodology and tools and the psychology and impact of change on the workforce and the organisation. 

K7: The elements that make up strategic workforce planning, such as talent management, succession planning and resourcing. 

K8: How to integrate diversity and inclusion into wider organisational approaches. 

K9: Strategies, tools and techniques to build management, coaching and mentoring capability across the organisation. 

K10: A range of consulting processes and styles as well as diagnostic tools appropriate to the role. 

K11: How projects fit as part of wider programme management and how to use project management methodologies in order to deliver a project. 

K12: Worker voice tools and approaches and how these potentially impact on worker engagement and performance. 

K17: (LD) How to critically evaluate and apply theories, concepts and the value of learning, coaching and mentoring cultures. 

K18: (LD) The psychology of learning as well as current and future trends in adult learning and motivation and how to integrate into an organisations learning approach. 

K19: (LD) Learning design principles and methods aligned to learning strategy. 

K20: (LD) Complex facilitation techniques and when to use them. 

S1: Design and implement a range of people policies, processes, approaches and practices in line with the organisations strategic plan, culture and values. 

S2: Identify and recognise the interventions an organisation needs to create the desired culture and behaviours. 

S3: Create and manage relevant budgets (for example HR and projects) and make balanced commercial decisions, recording them appropriately. 

S4: Design and contribute to the formulation and shaping of the People strategy and ensure alignment to organisational strategy. 

S5: Devise, analyse, interpret and offer insight into data and metrics and the insights they provide to the industry and organisation for the purpose of creating value. 

S6: Evaluate, identify and where appropriate select a technological/digital solution that will enhance current ways of working. 

S7: Question accepted practices and articulate the need for change, implementing change programmes where required (including diagnostics, options and methodologies). 

S8: Develop and implement people plans and integrated people practices in line with organisational and people strategy. 

S9: Ensure that people policies and practices are inclusive, recognising the impact on individuals and groups and supporting diversity. 

S10: Develop the management, coaching and mentoring capabilities utilising appropriate tools and methodologies. 

S11: Select and apply a range of consulting processes, styles and diagnostic tools appropriate to the role. 

S12: Align and evaluate worker voice tools and approaches and drive forward the outputs. 

S13: Select appropriate project management methodologies and resources in order to plan, lead and deliver complex projects (often as part of wider programmes) including the management of risk. 

S14: Influence senior leaders in order to position the people strategy at the heart of the business and ensure it is considered when decisions are taken across the organisation. Manage complex relationships across multiple and diverse stakeholders, building trust and rapport with the ability to positively challenge. Lead beyond area of control/authority and influence, negotiate and use advocacy skills to build reputation and effective collaborations. 

S15: Present complex information (which may include difficult messages) selecting channels that are tailored to the audience and can be clearly understood, including across the organisational boundaries, cultures and other disciplines. 

S20: (LD) Select, evaluate and apply appropriate theories and concepts to embed the value of learning, and to create a coaching and mentoring culture. 

S21: (LD) Integrate appropriate current and future trends in adult learning and motivation into an organisation’s learning approach, evaluating the effectiveness of the approach. 

S22: (LD) Select and apply appropriate complex facilitation techniques to achieve the desired outcome. 

S23: (LD) Select, evaluate and apply appropriate design principles and methods aligned to learning strategy. 

B1: Role models ethical behaviour and practices and challenge decisions and actions that are not ethical. 

B2: Demonstrates professional courage and influence by challenging constructively and confidently in the face of opposition and tailoring influencing techniques to gain buy-in. 

B3: Makes a visible commitment to valuing people; demonstrate compassion and fairness and enable people to have a meaningful voice in decisions that impact them. 

B4: Role models collaborative and inclusive working across organisational and cultural boundaries, driving diversity to achieve positive outcomes. 

B5: Actively searches and creates opportunities to learn, sharing insights and future trends with others (internally and externally). Brings a reflective mind-set to experiences and learning to innovate and continuously improve performance. 

B6: Assimilates evidence and ideas from multiple sources to identify themes and connections and gain insights on whole issues and their wider implications. 

B7: Takes an adaptable, evidence based approach to decision making in the context of specific situations or environments. 

B8: Applies a strategic and commercial mind-set to drive and enable change and create value for the organisation and its people. 

Assessments

Portfolio