Developing a Learning Plan for Wesfarmers Employees

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Support a workplace learning
environment
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Organization background
The organization that has been taken into account is Wesfarmers for this assignment.
Wesfarmers has its headquarters in Perth, Western Australia. The company was founded in the
year 1914. The company is major dealer in the coal mining, fertilizers, chemicals, safety
products and retail chain. The company is the largest employer in the private sector in the
country. Wesfarmers is a conglomerate company that has operations in many countries.
Wesfarmers have overall net income of A$2.87 billion. Talking about the bet assets of the
company, it has A$40.94 billion. The total numbers of employees in the company are 223000.
The company is the largest retail chain in the country with high revenue generating capacity.
Wesfarmers have many subsidiary companies working under it and all in all, the company is
operating with great success.
Evidence 1 Learning plan
The purpose of the learning plan is to make the new people aware about the roles and
responsibilities that they have to carry out in the organization. The first step is to encourage and
supports the learning opportunities. This can be done by proper planning and creating a socially
responsible workplace. Fair and comfortable workplace is very important for supporting the
learning environment in an organization (Schwartz, 2019). The learning plans for the team will
be developed by communicating with the top management. The learning plans will be developed
such that it will develop the professional and personal skills of the staff members. The learning
plan reflects the needs of learning opportunities as the existing staff members will have the
learnings of the new processes and methods used in the organization whereas the new staff
members will have knowledge about the rules and regulations of the company and also the job
description and activities that they have to carry out in the organization (Kyndt, et. al., 2016).
The existing employees will have job rotation and the new employees will provide training on
the job which will help them to have development while working. Teams and individuals will be
able to participate in the learning processes as various team activities and individual activities
will be conducted to make sure that there is a hundred per cent participation in the learning
process.
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The proposed learning plan will prove to be effective as all the staff members will be able to
carry out their job responsible in an effective way after the training.
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Evidence 2
For providing effective learning to the staff members the training manager can conduct the
following activity:
The activity is a team activity and the name of the activity is passing the message. This is a very
effective team activity to have effective learning about the effective communication followed in
the workplace. In this activity, the entire trainees stand in a row and the last person in the row
reads a message in his mind and conveys it to the person standing ahead of him in his ears. That
person again passes the message to the other person and in this way the cycle continues till the
last person standing in the row. At the end the last person speaks out the message conveyed to
him and the person who has originally read the message confirms if the message received by the
last person is correct or not. In this activity, the communication skills of each individual can be
judged. The team cooperation and team communication can also be evaluated by this activity.
The individuals can learn about their own strengths and weak points by the activity (Egloffstein
and Ifenthaler, 2017). This activity will also help the organization to enhance its communication
processes as the targets and goals of the organization can only be achieved if the correct
information is transferred at the right time.
Evidence 3 Continuous Improvement Plan
Continuous improvement plan is important so that the effectiveness of the training and
development needs of the staff members can be tracked. The continuous improvement plan will
also have positive impacts as the important measures that will help to improve the learning
processes can also be done by it.
The improvement plan will include record of daily activities and the outcomes of the activities
conducted during the development and training program. The improvement plan will be based
upon the feedbacks taken from the staff members (Nedervel & Berge, 2015). They will be asked
about the activities that they liked the most and the activities that they think can help and
improve the learning process. A regular assessment of the learning of the staff members will be
evaluated and then the entire process will be reviewed so that the drawbacks in the training
program can be analyzed. The further improvement activities will be based on the training and
learning needs of the staff members that have emerged during the training and development
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session. The plan will include the timeline and the activities that will be conducted during the
plan.
The timeline for the continuous improvement plan is given below:
Activity Start date End date
Review of plan 1 January 2019 10 January 2019
Feedback from trainees 11 January 2019 20 January 2019
Feedback from training
manager
21 January 2019 25 January 2019
Evaluation of staff members 26 January 2019 28 January 2019
Alterations in the plan 28 January 2019 31 January 2019
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References
 Egloffstein, M. and Ifenthaler, D., 2017. Employee perspectives on MOOCs for workplace
learning. TechTrends, 61(1), pp.65-70.
 Kyndt, E., Vermeire, E. and Cabus, S., 2016. Informal workplace learning among nurses:
Organisational learning conditions and personal characteristics that predict learning
outcomes. Journal of Workplace Learning, 28(7), pp.435-450.
 Nederveld, A., & Berge, Z. L. (2015). Flipped learning in the workplace. Journal of
Workplace Learning, 27(2), 162-172.
 Schwartz, G.J., 2019. An Examination of Key Factors That Influence Employee Learning in
the Workplace. The Wiley Handbook of Global Workplace Learning, pp.477-500.
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