Developing Individuals, Leaders and Organisation: Evidence Based Practice- Proposal Writing Assignment

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Proposal Writing Assignment:

Task: You are the newly-appointed Human Resource Advisor in a medium-sized business that employs approximately 150 mostly professional employees. Of these employees, 10 occupy managerial roles. The CEO of your company values learning and wants to increase the quantity and quality of learning at work. However, the company does not have the financial resources to fund employee participation in external formal education and training programs. The CEO has considered alternative approaches to fostering learning at work. After reading a Harvard Business Review Blog (see https://hbr.org/2014/07/you-cant- be-a-great-manager-if-youre-not-a-good-coach) the CEO decided that the organisation should strive to develop a ‘coaching culture’. Therefore, the CEO has asked you to write a fully developed proposal for a training course on ‘Coaching Skills for Managers’. The training course will be attended by the 10 managers. The CEO is aware that one-off training courses often do not result in behaviour change in the workplace and improved performance. Therefore the CEO wants the coaching skills training course to be designed in a way that facilitates transfer of learning and the course must be complemented by the formation of an action learning set to help ensure that the capabilities acquired during the training course are applied and further developed in the workplace. The CEO has a strong academic background and is a firm believer in evidence-based practice. Your report must be tailored accordingly. The proposal must consist of the following components:

• Title page
• Table of contents
• Executive Summary (10%)
• Background and Analysis of the Business Need (20%)
• Overview of the Interventions (20%) (This must include reference to the course program and a single session plan.)
• Learning Theory (10%)
• Learning Outcomes of Proposed Developmental Interventions (10%)
• Evaluation of the Developmental Interventions (10%)
• Transfer of Learning (10%)
• Costs and Projected Benefits (10%)
• References
• Appendix 1: Training course program