BSB51918 Leadership and Management

Short answer questions

1.What is learning? Define what is a learning organisation?

2.List five potential formal and five potential informal learning opportunities?

3.What role does the development and implementation of a learning plan have both individually and as a team in performance plans

4.Explain how the use of learning styles can be of benefit to you, the employee and the organisation.

5.List three strategies that you might use to ensure that learning plans reflect diversity of needs. 

6.List five barriers to learning that may be present in the workplace.

7.How can you as a manager ensure that workplace learning opportunities are used ?

8.Explain how you would facilitate and encourage team members to share their skills and knowledge to encourage a learning culture within your team.

9.What sort of feedback would you seek from employees that had attended an external training course? What would you use this feedback for?

10.What are some ways that you could recognise workplace achievement in your organisation?

11.Explain the benefits to an organisation of sharing learning within the team and organisation.

12.What training records need to be kept by an organisation, why is it important to keep records and who should have access to these records?

13.Explain how the use of a training and development specialist can help in the design and development of learning programs, how might this benefit an organisation?

14.Explain how you might identify the learning needs of an individual in relation to the team, and how would you assess against the available learning opportunities within the organisation?

15.How can you ensure that organisational procedures maximise individual and team access to learning opportunities?

16.Identify and explain how you as a manger might implement policies and procedures so that team members can assess their own competencies and identify their own learning and development needs. Why is this important?

17.Give an example as to why it is important that WHS issues need to consider when new learning methods are introduced into the workplace.

18.Why is it important to make adjustments to training delivery methods? 

19.Explain how monitoring the outcomes of workplace learnings can contribute to a learning organisation.

20.Why is it important that trainers maximise individual and team participation in learning events? How can you tell if this has occurred? 

a)Identify and discuss formal and informal learning opportunities that exist (or could exist) in your workplace. Give at least three examples of both formal and informal learning opportunities ensuring that you include coaching and mentoring as an example.

b)Explain the purpose of a learning plan and the benefits of a learning plan in a team environment

c)Prepare a learning plan for your team. Include the following headings in your plan as a minimum. Ensure that the learning plan caters for the diverse needs of the individuals in your team. You may wish to present this in a table format.

n ·A summary of the individuals learning needs: what (the specific skills, knowledge or attitudes to be taught or developed) ; and why (the learning objectives)

n ·What is the learning method and how is it selected

 oConsider what will suit the learners learning style and include consideration of any special needs that the learner may have.

oLiaise with  training and development specialists to determine what methods/options are available/suitable

n Where the learning is to take place. 

n ·When the learning is to occur

n ·Strategies to monitor the learning plan to ensure that it occurs as planned

n ·How will you assess the effectiveness of the learning

n ·How will you document the learning as per the organisations systems and procedures so that this information can be used to plan future staff development opportunities? 

d)Outline strategies that you would implement to address the following characteristics; 

?experience level