Learning, Development & Capability Building is a structured track of 14 lessons that build a complete, interview-ready understanding of the topic. Work through them in order, then use the quiz and flashcards in each lesson to revise.
What this course covers
- What Learning and Development Is Accountable For - Capability outcomes rather than training days delivered.
- Training Needs Analysis at Three Levels - Organisational, task and person analysis, and diagnosing what training will not fix.
- Adult Learning Principles and Why Training Fails - How adults actually learn, and the design mistakes that waste most training budgets.
- Instructional Design and the Design Cycle - Analyse, design, develop, implement and evaluate, applied to a real programme.
- The Seventy-Twenty-Ten Model & Learning in the Flow of Work - The model, the evidence behind it, and how to design on-the-job learning deliberately.
- Blended, Digital & Self-Directed Learning Design - Choosing modality by objective, and keeping completion from becoming the goal.
- Competency Mapping and Proficiency Levels - Building a framework with observable behaviours at each proficiency level.
- Leadership Development & Management Training - Developing first-time managers and senior leaders, with what differs between them.
- Coaching versus Mentoring: Choosing the Intervention - Purpose, structure and duration, and the situation each one genuinely fits.
- Evaluating Training: The Four Levels and What to Measure - Reaction to results, with a realistic measure at each level.
- Calculating Learning Return on Investment Credibly - Isolating the training effect, and the calculation that survives a finance review.
- Reskilling & Upskilling When Roles Change - Building a reskilling case when automation changes what a role contains.
- AI in Learning: Personalised Paths, Content & Skills Inference - Where AI improves learning design, and where it produces plausible filler.
- Case Study: Designing a Capability Programme From a Business Gap - A programme designed backwards from a business metric, with the evaluation plan.