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Description

Learning and Development Plan: Collecting Needs, Prioritising, Deploying and Evaluating

Two days to build a defensible learning plan and follow it through to measured results

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

The learning and development plan is often reduced to a compilation of individual requests, arbitrated by whatever budget remains. The organisation's strategic priorities do not appear in it, and the year-end review says nothing about the results obtained.

These 14 hours cover the full plan cycle for a practitioner building it for the first time or seeking to rebuild it from scratch. Participants work on needs collection, prioritisation rules, the choice of delivery methods and the evaluation of results. Each leaves with their own needs-collection template and prioritisation matrix.

Learning objectives

  • Translate the organisation's strategic priorities into identified skills needs
  • Organise the collection of needs from managers and employees
  • Prioritise requests according to explicit and stated rules
  • Select the learning methods suited to each type of need
  • Organise the roll-out of the plan and secure manager commitment
  • Evaluate the results of the plan and report to governance bodies

What makes this programme different

A prioritisation matrix built during the programme and tested on real requests
Focused work on distinguishing a stated request from an actual skills need
A review template oriented towards results rather than the number of training hours delivered

Programme

1Linking the Plan to the Organisation's Priorities

The skills need comes before the course request

  • Translating company projects into skills to be acquired
  • Distinguishing stated requests, individual needs and collective needs
  • Information sources available beyond appraisal interviews
  • Framing the timeline and the stakeholders in the process

2Collecting and Assessing Needs

Organising the process rather than being driven by it

  • Building a needs-collection template that managers can actually use
  • Making use of career development reviews and annual appraisals
  • Assessing requests and reformulating them as skills objectives
  • Handling individual requests unrelated to the role

3Prioritising and Building the Plan

Owned rules rather than implicit choices

  • Prioritisation criteria and weighting according to business stakes
  • Costing direct expenditure and the cost of absence from the workplace
  • Choosing between in-person, virtual, internal delivery and workplace-based learning
  • Identifying available budget levers and consulting providers

4Deploying, Evaluating and Reporting

Keeping the plan alive throughout the year

  • Scheduling attendance and communicating with managers
  • Preparing employees before training and consolidating learning on return
  • Measuring effects on actual work situations
  • Building the review and presenting it to management and governance bodies

Who is it for

Learning and development managers and officers, along with HR managers in SMEs and training administrators involved in building the plan.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.