Curriculum Management

Your people are your most important asset and you should invest considerable resource to provide ongoing training that builds and extends professional, technical and management skills in all areas.

A learning and development curriculum provided by GP will support your business and provide a high growth learning environment. Learning is an ongoing process and takes place across teams and at every level, GP’s curriculum managers consult and work closely with you to define your training strategy in line with your businesses strategic goals.

The process involves:

• Identifying the activities and processes that are best outsourced
• Determining your workforce’s capability needs
• Preparing your annual training plan and calendar
• Initiate the change process
• Align leadership and employees
• Pinpoint skill gaps against a proven standard
• Customise workshops
• Activate participants
• Guide coaching and Individual Development Plans
• Analysis of the organisation and resources to support the implementation of your annual training plan

Our global expertise, lessons learned, best practices, and core focus on training, all combine to ensure the delivery of a highly effective, quality training program. We tailor our services to meet your business needs.

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• Content Management

  GP’s content management service encompasses all aspects of course and content identification, evaluation, pricing, and selection.

  With a global reach, significant client portfolio, and more than 47 years of learning expertise, GP maintains a significant number of partnerships and relationships. This allows us to offer thousands of courses ranging from management, leadership, and professional development to more technical and skills-based training.

• Content Library

  Our extensive content library has developed over the years, it is an essential resource complied of soft skills, business skills and technical training material.

• Translation

  We use translators that have experience in translating course materials and understand organisational cultures and tone of voice. If the subject is specialist we would source by language and industry specific.

  On large scale projects where large amounts of material area required to be translated in a small timeframe we would use a team with a chief linguist. The chief would act as the editor supervisor, creating style guides and glossaries to use across the project.

• Virtual Classroom Production

  The virtual classroom answers the requirements of training where the trainer and the delegate are separated by time or space or both.

  Virtual courses – a synonym is online courses – are courses delivered by methods such as the Internet, video conferencing, and multimedia resources.

  GP’s development team will include some or all of the following personnel:

  • Technical writers
  • Graphic artists
  • E-Learning programmers
  • Desktop publishers
  • Technical editors

  The team will work with you to develop the virtual learning classroom that answers your organisational requirements. Some examples of virtual learning spaces are:

  • Virtual Classroom: A virtual classroom is a learning environment created in the virtual space
  • Virtual operating room: giving employees a space to learn the basic induction procedure before stepping foot in the real-life operating room
  • Hypertext courses: Structured course material is used as in a conventional distance education program. However, all material is provided electronically and can be viewed with a browser. Hyperlinks connect text, multimedia parts and exercises
  • Video-based courses are like face-to-face classroom courses, with a trainer speaking and Powerpoint slides or online examples used for illustration.
  • Social Networking: Using Web 2.0 technologies in virtual classrooms promotes increased social interaction, student-centred instruction and a problem solving curriculum
     
• Content Development

  GP offers custom content development that supports your company’s products or services, software applications and business processes and procedures. By understanding your organisations needs and requirements we can apply our instructional design methodology to create a solution that is instructionally sound, engages the targeted audience and meets your business objectives.

  During development, GP builds the content in a modular format to facilitate their seamless reuse and repurpose across multiple delivery formats. The result is an integrated design and development process where content is more rapidly produced, flexibly delivered and optimally blended.

  Our deep industry knowledge, global experience and focus on innovation enables us to bring subject-matter understanding to our clients whenever needed. Our knowledge can be used to offer external perspectives and leading practices in the development of content or to supplement subject expertise when it is not available internally at our clients.

• Content Procurement

  Count on seasoned expertise to find just the right resources.

  With our decades of content design and development expertise ensures that we only recommend and select content that meets the highest standards of quality. We work closely with subject matter experts in your organisation to understand your overall training requirements in order to develop a product plan and selection options that best fit your business needs.

  In addition, GP has extensive experience sourcing miscellaneous training-related products and services. From books to training room supplies, we source the best products at the best price.

• Instructor Resource Management

  Leverage GP’s decades of training delivery experience so that you always have the best talent available. GP’s instructor, and facilitator resource management provides a common, streamlined process for managing the recruitment, certification, and evaluation of training delivery resources. Our focus is ensuring consistent quality and cost-effective training delivery.

  Leverage the thorough recruiting processes of a global leader.

  GP uses a consistent recruiting process to identify instructors that meet your training delivery needs. Our recruiting process includes performance and/or technical interviews to assess the candidates’ experience, capabilities, and knowledge of the content area.

  To ensure the instructor’s expertise is current, we invite subject matter experts (SMEs) to participate in instructor interviews. If specific internal or external certifications are required, a copy of the instructor’s certification paperwork is acquired and kept on file.

  Have confidence in our meticulous resource management.

  Once a candidate has been identified, GP uses a rigorous certification process to ensure the instructor maintains the skills and knowledge necessary to deliver the class and to assess the participants’ understanding of the content. This process includes a review of the materials, a train-the-trainer session, class observation, a co-teach session, and a full conduct of the session while being observed.

  Our vendor on-boarding process scrutinizes and verifies legal compliance requirements, thereby removing the risk of possible litigation issues for our customers. Once on board, ongoing performance reviews are conducted and guidance is provided for continual improvement. We also track, trend, and report on each instructor’s level 1 evaluation results.

  Scale your solution as your needs evolve.

  GP’s existing administration system and instructor resource management processes are capable of supporting your internal or adjunct learning and development delivery now and in the future. With access to more than 3600 instructors, professionals, and facilitators worldwide, you can count on GP to ensure that you have the necessary resources to meet your global training delivery objectives.