B867: Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring (TMA: 01)

This weblog offers both a strategic and an operational focus and consider the factors which inform choices about learning and talent development strategies in different contexts. The blog explores a range of workplace interventions which can put these strategies into effect and the models and theories which underpin these. Moreover, emphasis is placed on professionalism by the advancement of workplace, practice-based learning and CPD via the development of coaching and mentoring skills.

Activity 3.1: Analysing context

Timing: Allow 40 minutes for this activity

Consider your own organisation or an organisation known to you. Using the template from Figure 3.2, add three critical factors for this organisation in respect to each layer of the figure (outer context, inner context, HR strategy and HRD strategy), as you see them developing over the next two to three years.

You can do this activity online using the interactive tool below or download the PDF and either print it out or annotate it electronically.

Reflect on any aspects that are difficult to place in a particular section of the template. What might be the implications of this for HRD strategy development in this organisation? Don’t worry at this stage if you find it difficult to complete all aspects as it may be that thinking about these issues raises more questions than it offers answers.