Session 1: Training and Development Profession

• Explain the WLPI program goals, the project and the mentoring process used throughout the program resulting in a clear understanding of the program purpose and process.
• Describe all elements of the 2013 Competency Model.
• Identify the role of the Training and Development professional and broader roles within WLP including performance consulting.
• Complete a personal assessment of the WLP areas of interest and experience that result in a general direction of your career path and professional development.
• Explain nine trends shaping the Training and Development profession and the impact those trends have on career development.
• Recognize the most common adult learning principles, resulting in a greater understanding around the importance of knowing the audience and their specific learning needs and styles.
• Interpret your individual Kolb Learning Style Inventory in order to apply these concepts and information when designing and delivering training.

Session 2: Human Performance Improvement

• Define performance and performance improvement.
• Identify the differences between a trainer and an HPI consultant.
• Identify the major steps involved in the Performance Improvement Process.
• Define analysis and explain why analysis is critical to the HPI process.
• Identify three different types of interventions and when each would be appropriate.
• Apply the principles presented throughout the module to real-life business situations.

Session 3: Instructional Design

• Identify the correct phase of the ADDIE model with 80% accuracy, given a brief description of a phase or activity of ADDIE.
• List 5 major adult learning principles with 80% accuracy.
• Identify the criteria, condition, behavior, and action-verb, given a series of objectives or components of an objective.
• Develop an objective containing a condition, behavior and criteria, given a basic task.
• Identify the strategy that optimizes the objective, given an objective and a choice of instructional strategies.
• Identify the appropriate level of evaluation to achieve the desired result, given a business need and overall learning objective (mini-scenario).
• As part of a small group, identify a topic and develop a conceptual design outlining at least one objective and at least one instructional strategy to be used that addresses at least one adult learning principle (using the template provided); small groups will present their mini-module.

Session 4: Blended Learning and Materials Development

• Define the following learning methods: e-learning, learning technologies, blended learning and experiential learning.
• Define the five basic learning styles.
• Create a blended learning experience.
• Understand the important differences between developing an instructor-led classroom based training vs. an e-learning training.

Session 5: Training Delivery

 Session 6: Evaluating Learning Impact

• Choose from the principal theories and types of measurement and evaluation for your projects.
• Use basic statistical theory and methods to conduct measurements, or to understand evaluations others do for you.
• Apply key research design methods in your work.
• Become competent in a number of analysis methods.
• Interpret and report the data from your measurement or evaluation to key stakeholders

Session 7: Final Project and Certificate

• Complete a project that provides practical application of the concepts covered in previous session modules.
• Write a report that summarizes learnings from the project and their relationship to topics covered in the Institute. The report must be approved by their Project Coaches.
• Deliver a 10 minute presentation and receive feedback.
• Complete the requirements to achieve a WLPI certificate of completion.