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How Investing In Your Staff Can Flow Through To The Rest Of

We help to keep up with the demands of the job, he’s enrolled them in Maintenance Engineering Analysis, a seven-part Live Online course offered by Engineering Education Australia.

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How Investing In Your Staff Can Flow Through To The Rest Of

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  1. How Investing In Your Staff Can Flow Through To The Rest Of The Business This Presentation By Engineering Education Australia Suite 202, 21 Bedford Street, North Melbourne VIC 3051 Visit: www.eeaust.com.au Call: +61 3 9274 9600

  2. Ben Hayden - Introduction • Some 530 kilometres north of Brisbane, Ben Hayden is the Manager of NRG Gladstone Operating Services’ Technical Services Department, responsible for maintaining the Gladstone Power Station. It’s a big job, making sure that Queensland’s biggest power station is running ship-shape. “We’re getting the same value as having Jim in the room with us anyway,” he says. “It’s a great example of this package and concept from EEA (www.eeaust.com.au) that we’ve tapped in to.”

  3. Technical Leadership Process

  4. Ben Hayden - Vision “Welcome to the new way of helping you and your staff make the most of their training opportunities, no matter where in Australia you work.” Hayden says one of the many benefits of the Live Online courses is that his team can consider the application of the material on their own workplace and their own case studies as part of the online workshops. That way, they can immediately relate and put into practice what they learn on the course.

  5. Ben Hayden - Popular Approaches ►Most businesses realise that training is the key to helping their staff reach their potential. And one of the most popular approaches is what’s called the 70:20:10 approach to learning. ►This approach says that staff and managers basically learn 70 per cent of their skills from on-the-job work; 20 per cent from the people around them, usually their boss; and 10 per cent from courses and reading. ►But the key is getting the mix right, and finding ways to convert the knowledge acquired on courses into practical, workplace skills. ►“We’re finding that with Live Online, and the group rate we have for that, I’m able to train more people, and we get the benefits of managing the timing, the delivery and discussion associated with the material – and focusing on our own case studies – with minimal impact and downtime on the business,” says Hayden. ►“They can plan their jobs for that day, turn up for the webinar for 90 minutes, then they’re back on the job. ►“It’s very effective in terms of fitting in around all the other things we have to do and I think the cost is pretty unbeatable at the end of the day.”

  6. Benefits & consideration • “We’ve also found it’s quite valuable as a bonding exercise,” says Hayden. • “We’re finding that the mechanical and electrical guys are interacting and spending time together – in particular when we talk about case studies, there’s some common understanding and knowledge coming together – so that, to me, has been effective from an organisational perspective.” • “Without the webinar, we would have been limited to sending just one or two people to courses in Brisbane or Sydney,” Hayden says. • “The significance of that is we would have incurred at least an additional $500-700 in airfares, plus accommodation expenses on top of that. • “So really, it would be about an extra $1,000 per person per course. • “To me, I’d suggest anyone looking to access CPD to leverage off the webinar delivery method, it’s pretty hard to beat.”

  7. Putting approaches into practice • While learning on the job is important in any organisation, so is learning off the job. “Learning occurs when someone gets a new idea, there’s no question about that,” says Iain Polley. • Polley is the CEO of The Moreland Group, a subsidiary of EEA specialising in project management training and qualifications. • He says learning through experience and from colleagues is vital, but formal courses can often be where you stretch yourself to come up with new ideas and initiatives. • “That’s where you get people to think about what they need to do differently, or wants to put in practice differently, and how they might go about that,” says Polley. • “The formal courses and e-learning still have a very strong role in terms of saying to people ‘step outside your current square’ • Polley says the important thing for any business is to incorporate all three styles of learning – formal, informal and on-the-job – for their staff and managers. “And that’s an important part of the whole process.”

  8. THANK YOU READING Engineering Education Australia For Enquiry Visit: www.eeaust.com.au Call Us: +61 3 9274 9600

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