Training and skills development
How can South Africa cope with the skills shortage?
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Frew Murdoch
The issue that many companies are confronted with today is how to handle the skills shortage in South Africa. The following article will consider new ways of coping with the skills shortage through learning and developing people. South Africa is facing a huge skills shortage and has a substantial unemployment problem dating back from the Apartheid era. Human Resources policies offer many solutions to these economic and social problems.
Transforming boring learning
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Robin Probart
South Africa is faced with many challenges in the teaching, training and education professions today. Much is attributed to poor curriculum design and incompetent teachers/trainers. Part of the problem emanates from the lack of informal learning strategies where learners are not involved, bored, uninterested and constipated by the one-way knowledge information piled onto them by the teacher, trainer or presenter.
Widening the net
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Alwyn Klein
The American Society for Training and Development call it Human Performance Improvement, the International Society of Performance Improvement, call it Human Performance Technology and many other authors have coined other meaningful descriptors. There are formal certifications and even advanced degrees that focus on this. Yet, practically, what does this mean for the learning leader trying to balance budget, quality and measurement of a meaningful organisational learning and development strategy?
