Course Overview

Domain
Business, Communication and Design
Format
Short Course
Duration
3 days
Fee Subsidy
Up to 90% SF Funding

Develop skills and techniques to facilitate Workplace Learning at your workplace through scoping, designing and implementing an actual Workplace Learning project for SIT’s Integrated Work Study Programme (IWSP) students. 

Learn and practice Workplace Learning mentoring and coaching skills through individual coaching sessions and real-life supervision of IWSP students.

* The Integrated Work Study Programme (IWSP) is a distinctive feature of SIT's degree programmes, which SIT students will undertake 6 to 12 months of paid employment within companies relevant to their degree programmes under the supervision of their Workplace Supervisor to develop specific professional competencies.

Who Should Attend

  • This programme is targeted at companies who would like to build up or strengthen their Workplace Learning capability to enhance employees’ performance through better knowledge and skills transfer for upskilling and reskilling of their employees

What You Will Learn

The programme consists of 1.5-days of training, 2 coaching sessions, and a final assessment.

Phase 1: Training (1.5-Days)
Learners would be:

  • Introduced to the Workplace Learning Framework and how to facilitate workplace learning using the GROW Coaching Model and skills and techniques for effective communication and feedback.
  • Learning how Workplace Learning is aligned with the Company’s Core Values and Corporate Training & Development Plans, and apply Workplace Learning Assessment Principles, Methods and Tools to identify and scope a suitable Workplace Learning project with key deliverables and outcomes articulated, develop a Coaching and Implementation Plan through the Workplace Learning project and developing a Workplace Assessment Plan outlining methods and tools to be used.


Phase 2: Two-Month Practicum (2 Coaching Sessions)
Learners would be:

  • Implementing Workplace Learning Project and applying workplace coaching skills and techniques.
  • Two coaching sessions would be scheduled for Trainer to check-in with the learners’ progress, challenges encountered and proposed solutions, and review and evaluate Workplace Learning, coaching experience, and effectiveness of assessment plan.


Phase 3: Evaluation

  • A one-on-one oral assessment session. The assessor will ask the candidate questions to provide candidate the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the outcomes of the course. At the end of the assessment, the assessor will provide the candidate with feedback on the understanding of key principles in coaching and mentoring and the overall presentation session. The outcome of the assessment will either be competent (C) or not-yet-competent (NYC).

Teaching Team

Randy Choo
Randy Choo

Project Director, National Centre of Excellence for Workplace Learning, Singapore Institute of Technology

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Zhang Yanan
Zhang Yanan

Senior Manager, National Centre of Excellence for Workplace Learning, Singapore Institute of Technology

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Schedule

Course Run Phase Dates Time
September 2024 Run

Phase 1 & 2

Phase 3

11 – 12 September 2024

25 September 2024

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
September 2024 Run

Phase 1 & 2

Phase 3

18 – 19 September 2024

30 September 2024

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
October 2024 Run

Phase 1 & 2

Phase 3

16 – 17 October 2024

28 October 2024

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Duration Topics
Day 1 Apply applied learning model, workplace learning framework
  • Applied Learning Pedagogy
  • The value of Learning and Development

Learn and practice skills and techniques for effective communication and feedback, learn and apply GROW coaching model 

  • Introduce the 3-Cs Model
  • Active listening
  • Effective Questioning
  • The GROW Model

Lunch

Learn and practice skills and techniques for effective communication and feedback (continued)

  • The GROW Model in practice
  • Coaching Technique
  • The SBIR Feedback Method
  • GROW Case Studies.
  • Practice

Assessment of Workplace Learning Outcomes for Workplace Supervisors

  • Co-create learning outcomes in the context of workplace training
  • Design simple rubrics to assess competencies, including both technical and transferable skills
  • Articulate the principles of good assessment in the context of workplace learning
  • Demonstrate their value as workplace supervisors based on SIT’s applied learning model and the workplace learning framework
Day 2

Assessment of Workplace Learning Outcomes for Workplace Supervisors

  • Co-create learning outcomes in the context of workplace training
  • Design simple rubrics to assess competencies, including both technical and transferable skills
  • Articulate the principles of good assessment in the context of workplace learning
  • Demonstrate their value as workplace supervisors based on SIT’s applied learning model and the workplace learning framework
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Duration Topics
Day 2

First Coaching Session

  • On-site check-in & coaching sessions with Learner
  • Identify challenges of Workplace Learning and propose solutions to overcome the challenges 
  • Document and discuss the progress status of the Workplace Learning plan with the Learner 
  • Online resources on specific topics to aid coaching
Day 3

Second Coaching Session

  • On-site check-in & coaching sessions with Learner
  • Identify challenges of Workplace Learning and propose solutions to overcome the challenges 
  • Document and discuss the progress status of the Workplace Learning plan with the Learner 
  • Online resources on specific topics to aid coaching 
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Duration Topics
Day 3

Oral Assessment
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Certificate and Assessment

A Certificate of Attainment (Non-credit bearing) will be issued to participants who:

  • Attend at least 75% of the course
  • Undertake and pass non-credit bearing assessment during the course
  • Assessment: MCQ and Oral Questions

 

Benefit(s) of Certificate of Attainment:

Eligible for credit exemption from the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) WSQ Workplace Learning Facilitator (WLF) Programme – First Version (WLF v1) and the WSQ Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance 2.0 (ACLP 2.0) programme 

Refer to Credit Exemption - Institute for Adult Learning for more details.

Fee Structure

The full fee for this course is S$1,635.00.

Category After SF Funding
Singapore Citizen (Below 40) S$490.50
Singapore Citizen (40 & Above) S$190.50
Singapore PR / LTVP+ Holder S$490.50
Non-Singapore Citizen S$1,635.00 (No Funding)


Note: All fees above include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.

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