Learning Consulting

Training Management Related Offerings

At Astutix, we believe that the training function has a very unique role in the execution of the strategy of any company. While the training department typically focuses on the functional aspect of it, many internal management aspects such as building a metrics based management culture often suffer.

Astutix’ learning consulting offerings help training departments turn their eye on the internal management practices to enhance overall effectiveness. Rather than follow a generic consulting approach, Astutix has developed custom frameworks based on best practices of many leading companies in the world. As such, the approach is not only to implement these practices, but also to help build a knowledge base within the management team, to continually evaluate internal management practices vis-à-vis industry trends and adapt the right ones to enrich internal management.

We have noticed that such a focus on internal management aspects often offer disproprionately high returns to investments.

While the focus of the consulting offerings is not only on a particular process or two, we have identified common solution areas that have a relevance to most companies :

• Metrics & Analytics based management
• Learning Assets Portfolio Management

E-Learning Related Offerings

E-Learning is not for everybody; neither is it suited for all purposes. Our job is to ensure that you make the right choices when planning your e-learning strategy. We also help align course development, and product implementation efforts, to the overall e-learning strategy through measurements.

The range of solutions on offer here are :

E-learning Strategy Development : This offering covers the aspect of why, what and how of e-learning. The engagement is structured as a set of interviews, analysis sessions and facilitated management workshops to arrive at a collective agreement within the management team about the various aspects of the e-learning strategy.
The engagement comprehensively dwells into the aspects connected to business and training strategy, to arrive at coherent rationale and clear goals for the program. These goals and objectives are then supported by appropriate leading and lagging metrics to help keep tabs on the program.

These strategic objectives of the program are then translated into concrete initiatives with clear accountabilities for execution. This part of the engagement would address critical implementation issues such as a business objective driven prioritization and queuing strategy, a process for platform adoption (content development and learning management system), and the right sourcing strategy for content.
The engagement ends with the definition of a review strategy to enable the management team assess progress, resolve issues, and make necessary course corrections.

E-learning Program Management : Organizations typically get into the trap of believing that e-learning is mainly about content development / acquisition or about an LMS. While these are critical elements of the program, there are others that deserve attention such as change management, deployment strategy, etc. There are various stakeholders in any e-learning implementation including the top management, Human Resources, IT and the business users. Each stakeholder has different expectations and concerns about the program which need to be effectively managed. Stakeholder expectation management, and a consistent involvement of all of them in the implementation process is crucial for success. Especially considering the often negative perceptions of e-learning within the business user community, these aspects need utmost attention so that the program doesn’t get de-railed.

With its experience in multiple such implementations across industries, we believe Astutix is best equipped to help organizations manage this crucial process thereby achieving success reliably.

Learning design: Learning has emerged from being a purely classroom based, traditional exercise, to a multi-mode activity focusing on the effectiveness of learning. Role-plays, game based learning, immersive environments, virtual classrooms, expert chats, informal learning, and many more options are now available for training personnel to utilize for delivery of learning. Often, the choices are bewildering leading to a mis-match between the context and the mode.

Our learning consultants are well qualified and experienced in the various pedagogical options available and have firsthand experience with these techniques and their applicability to a specific context. Thus, based on the audience, the specific learning objective, and the topic in question, Astutix can help come up with very innovative learning solutions that are a blend of the traditional and trend, involving the right amount of technology to support the learning needs of the organization.