People Practice: Learning Needs, Approaches & Impact Evaluation

This report examines learning and development within the context of 'Technow,' focusing on the importance of employee growth and skill enhancement for improved business performance. It covers various learning needs for both individuals and the organization, analyzes different learning approaches such as facilitation, consulting, training, coaching, and mentoring, and explains how learning and development initiatives should accommodate individual requirements and preferences. The report also provides examples of evaluation methods like learner feedback and qualitative information, highlighting their impact on both employees and the organization, leading to improved performance, positive work environments, and enhanced profitability. The conclusion emphasizes that continuous learning and development are crucial for sustaining competitiveness and achieving organizational success.

Task 6- The People
Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
6.1Examples of various learning needs for the individuals and organisations...........................3
6.2Explain different approaches of learning...............................................................................3
6.3Explain how, in the design an delivery of learning and development initiatives, individual
requirements and preferences must be accommodated...............................................................4
6.4Example of at least two methods of evaluating learning and development and its impact,
and how the evaluation benefit both the people and organisation..............................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Learning and development is the function which is responsible for the empowering the
employee's growth and sharpen their skills and capabilities to ensure the better functionality of
the business performance (Martin and Fleming,2022). Technow is the chosen organisation for
this respective report, It basically provide the skills computer training and internet security. This
respective report will cover the example of certain learning needs for the people and the
company and also analyse the various learning approaches. Moreover, it will analyse how the
learning and development initiatives helps the people and the company. Lastly, example of two
evaluation method and its impact and how such evaluation benefits both the people and the
company.
6.1Examples of various learning needs for the individuals and organisations.
 Maintaining current capability: It is vital for the employees of TechNow to have the
proper learning so that they can rightly practice to improve their current skills so that they
can be effective with the given skills set and capabilities.
 A performance gap: when the individual focuses on the development and their learning
then thy can rightly analyse their actual and the previous working and performance by
which they can rightly analyse their growth in TechNow company.
 Preparing for future changes and developments: Learning helps the individual to have
the better consideration in an organisation as further learning helps the individual to
analyse the future change and development by understand the current trends of the target
market.
6.2Explain different approaches of learning
 Facilitation: It is the art of moving the group so that they can deal with a process or
reach an agreement or the given solution without getting directly involved in the given
process. In context to TechNow, they are helping the employees in order to get the best
solution for the given problem.
 Consulting: It is the practise of giving a third party with expertise on an particular
method in exchange of given fee. This basically includes the advisory or the
implementation of various services.

 Training: It is the action of teaching a person with the particular skills and type of
behaviour. This is somehow related to the major consideration so that they can make
TechNow employees more effective(Lee, 2021).
 Coaching: This helps the people to unlock the personal potential so that they can
maximise the own performance which helps them to learn rather than teaching them.
 Mentoring: It is the relationship between the two people with the main goal of
professional and their personal development. It is basically the experienced person who
share their knowledge, experience and advice.
TechNow can help the company to initiate the employees so that they can influence them
for their better working.
6.3Explain how, in the design an delivery of learning and development initiatives,
individual requirements and preferences must be accommodated.
When the company is offering the better learning technique which helps the employees
so that they can rightly complete their given task and attains the overall functionality of the
business in the target market. Mentoring helps employees people to have the to have guidance
from the experience people by which they can rightly take the corrective actions in order to
complete the given task for have better results in the operations. When the certain approach of
learning is being used for the employees then the TechNow company can rightly sustain in the
market for long period of time.
6.4Example of at least two methods of evaluating learning and development and its impact,
and how the evaluation benefit both the people and organisation.
 Learner feedback: It is the method of evaluating the learning and the development of
the employees and it is defined as the response of students concerning their learning
experience, communication with the instructor and the group of people so that they can
rightly helps the instructor to understand the progress of employees and moreover, it
leaders to understand the deviation in the learning process of the individual within the
TechNow(Ahn, Bowers and Welton, 2021). This also helps the company to have the new
technique and method of operations by the employees by which they gradually ensures
the higher profitability and revenue.
 Qualitative information: It is the emotions or the perception of the people about their
thoughts and feelings. It is the useful method in order to evaluate the overall learning of

the employees as this helps in maintain the positive working environment within the
organisation and also leads to understand the perception of the employees by their
manager so that they can form a better team in which they can accomplish all the pre-
determined gaol in an appropriate manner and generated huge profitability and revenue as
well.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report that learning and development is the significant
aspects which is ensuing the flow of work in an appropriate manner and skilled employees
employees can take the organisation to the higher level of growth and success in the target
market. There is the need of learning as it helps in maintaining the current capabilities of the
employees, performance gap and with the help of facilitation, consulting, coaching, training and
mentoring, employees can rightly sustain in the competitive market and enhance their learning
and development within the organisation. Lastly, learner feedback and qualitative information
are the method of evaluation which helps the employees and the organisation to ensure their
better working.

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Books and Journals
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Lee, C.D., 2021. Practice that supports learning and development: A commentary. In The
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