Proposal for Leadership and Human Resource Development Programme

ASSESSMENT TASK

You are to act as a Human Resource Development expert, proposing a suitable learning and development intervention to a management board. This was due to take the form of a verbal boardroom briefing; however, due to the current measures in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Management Board has requested a written learning and development proposal instead.

You will play the role of the Managing Director of a small Leadership and Human Resource Management Training and Consultancy company, called Walton Consulting Ltd. You have expressed an interest in supplying training and development services to a company in the takeaway food industry, having responded to a tender on a procurement website.

Task

You must now submit a written business proposal to deliver a Leadership and Human Resource Development programme for this client. Your proposal should include all the essential information, research and evidence as requested in the Client Brief below, and should be supported by underpinning theory/evidence.

The huge increase in staff has placed extraordinary pressure on existing management teams and has required the employment of additional management staff. There is now a pressing need to train and develop this varied group of managers to make effective use of their people, so they in turn can deliver outstanding service to existing and potential customers. In order to achieve this, their people must be capable, effective, motivated and happy to be a member of the Marshall team. This means that Leadership and Management Development has become a key enabler.

They require you to provide a proposal for delivering a Leadership and Management Development programme to their management team, starting in October 2020, and finishing by March 2021 latest. The following staff will take part in the programme:

• 8 Senior Managers

• 25 Department Managers

• 21 Assistant Department Managers

Our managers and assistant managers require extensive training and development in the basics of operational leadership and management, including resolving conflicts and disputes in the workplace, basic employment law, and day to day management of employment relationships. They also need to have a good understanding of motivational techniques, and team building/team management.

Our budget for this programme is in the region of £25,000. If you would like to bid for this contract, we require a 1,000-word written proposal from you in the following format:

• Overview of your programme, its methodology/approach, with appropriate evidence/theoretical underpinning included.

• Scheme of work giving an indication of the delivery of the project against a timeline. You should include a graphic example of your scheme of work, in the form of a table/Gantt Chart, which should not exceed two side of A4 in length (this will be excludedfrom your word count).

• A summary of the itemised costing of the programme.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

• Understand and evaluate the role that learning and development plays in an organisation’s HR strategy.

• Integrate L&D into the operational and policy elements of a business.

• Demonstrate how a variety of approaches and methods can be integrated to provide a bespoke solution to this business challenge. Points to consider

• Time Scale

• Entry level of learners and desired effect on the organisation

• Resources and methods

• Formal/Informal approaches

• Correct use of academic skills

• High standards of presentation and grammar

• Credible, professional delivery of the proposition Points to consider

• Use of effective and accurate references

• Use of professional terminology

• Seamless flow of proposition