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Client organisations can engage DeakinPrime to provide services in the following ways: Strategic Consulting,  Accredited Pathways, Alliances, Learning Resources and Technology Services.

Our continuing objective is to integrate and focus the expertise and resources needed to deliver the combination of programs and services required to advance the goals of each client organisation we support.

Strategic Consulting

Positioning employees to reach their potential requires a strategic approach to the development and management of talent and capability. Now, more than ever, workforce participation and effectiveness activities need to reflect an integrated approach to talent transformation.

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Without an holistic approach, an organisation can miss out on the opportunity to keep critical business skills and knowledge where they are most effective. DeakinPrime’s mission is to enhance the capability and performance of leading organisations through integrated corporate education and development solutions.

To facilitate this, DeakinPrime seeks to position itself close to an organisation’s strategic objectives and offer informed advice supported by a robust, well-researched methodology.

Content | Leading organisations ensure that learning objects are clearly linked to organisational capability requirements and are visible across the organisation, resulting in the reduced duplication of spending on the same content and more effective use and re-use of material.

Learning content management and development support the management of knowledge and associated networks in an organisation. Learning objects are designed to assist learners to achieve performance outcomes, are mapped according to capability statements, and managed and reviewed on a regular basis in conjunction with business and subject matter experts.

Technology | Leading organisations ensure technology is used thoughtfully to provide a single point of access to robust learning practices.

Technology is planned in order to reinforce learner control, and possesses a deliberative structure to enhance learning. The learner knows where, and what to do, to address all their learning and development needs and understands how this fits in with the broader capability requirements.

The purpose of technology in this context is to integrate the above dimensions with human resource activities.

Learning culture | Organisations with successful learning cultures tend to have strong leaders who consistently emphasise the development of an organisation’s people, processes and tools. A culture of learning and development is visible and supported everywhere – on the job, in the classroom, over the internet and among peers. In this, environment learning initiatives are part of everyone’s daily work activity.

Organisational alignment | Effective organisational alignment ensures that learning and development strategies are aligned with the overall business strategy of an organisation and clearly shows the link between learning and development and the strategic direction of the organisation.

Capability framework | Leading organisations use a capability framework to underpin all basic human resource functions to ensure that the people capability requirements of the organisation are identified and maximised.

This framework needs to link to the business planning process and be reviewed as part of any organisational change. In this manner, roles within the organisation are clear and linked visibly to business strategy, core values, business needs and broader human resource activities, such as selection, development, performance support and retention of staff.

Evaluation and measurement | Leading organisations use standardised evaluation and measurement practices to ensure that learning activities can be reviewed and refined through an ongoing cycle, ensuring alignment with business strategy and return on investment.

Evaluation mechanisms measure the impact of intervention on various desirable business outcomes and benchmarks and a system for ensuring continuous improvement based on these results is used.

Supplier management | Leading organisations ensure efficiencies can be obtained from the service delivery aspects of training whilst developing relationships oriented towards more efficient and effective services.

This can be achieved through standardisation of their suppliers’ acquisitions and review processes to ensure that suppliers continue to provide the skills and expertise required by the organisation.

Management and governance | Leading practice organisations create and maximise governance structures, processes and tools to help the organisation assess learning priorities, make funding and budgeting decisions and hold groups accountable.

In this environment, learning and development organisational structures, processes and decision-making relate clearly to the hierarchy of decision-making processes, spending parameters and quality systems with systematic senior management engagement.

Delivery | Leading organisations ensure the right mix of delivery options to meet business needs, including formal and informal options. The delivery options should align with an organisation’s culture to determine the most effective mode and can determine the vehicle for delivery and its administration.

Formal and informal learning opportunities that incorporate innovative practice, targeted selection, consistent implementation and continuous review are utilised and visibly supported.

These dimensions provide the basis for many aspects of DeakinPrime’s consulting practice, including, but not limited to, the:

  • organisational principles for an effective corporate institute
  • enablers of integrated and effective professionalisation pathways
  • placement of leadership development and talent management activity within broader human resource practices
  • evaluation of learning and development effectiveness from both an organisational and individual program perspective
  • ability to recommend and focus human resource management and correspondingly encourage sustainable competitive advantage, and
  • assessment and benchmarking of learning and development practice.

DeakinPrime’s team of experienced professionals and academics can assist any organisation to analyse its current situation, and lead it step by step to greater effectiveness and strategic advantage.

Similarly, we can provide support and assistance from seasoned practioners in the implementation of targeted initiatives designed to enhance workforce capacity and capability.

Accreditation Pathways

Deakin’s accredited pathways give organisations the opportunity to advance talented and motivated management and professional employees, providing a clear route for progressing from entry-level vocational courses or industry education programs through to a Masters qualification.

Alliances and Institutes

The larger and more diverse an organisation’s workforce, the more difficult it can be to maintain a cohesive organisational culture and sustain an organisation-wide focus on strategic objectives. The risk of strategic drift or cultural fragmentation increases further if the workforce is geographically dispersed.

Creating a corporate education model can greatly enhance an organisation’s ability to attract, retain and develop personnel. The costly challenge is to build the right systems, structure, governance and programs which effectively and efficiently align with an organisations strategic direction, culture, functions and maturity

Learning Resources

DeakinPrime provides a depth and diversity of expertise and resources that enables the design, development and delivery of the most effective corporate education and development solutions.

Learning Environments

Deakin Management Centre is world class executive conference centre where organisation learning and improvement takes place. Its environment incites a purpose in the minds of people, makes them receptive to new ideas and attuned to achieving outcomes.

Technology Services

We draw on the extensive resources and infrastructure of Deakin University including its online learning technologies, program administration and course materials production. DeakinPrime has developed Computer Based Training (CBT) materials for its clients since 2002. Many of these are deployed via SCORM and AICC compliant learning management systems including DeakinPrime’s proprietary Prime Online Manager.