How to Change the World. Clare Feeney

Australian experienceNumbers that count: a scoring system for environmental controlsRegulation and enforcement: yes or no?Chapter 5Setting Up and Improving Your Environmental Training ProgramPlaying devil’s advocateIs training the solution to the problem?Can anyone else do the training?Can we clearly define the training needs? The TNA of successWhat can we do about workplace support?How can we encourage trainees to come to the our training?Making the case for trainingBeing realisticYour training partnersRecognition of learning – and moreAssessmentApprovalCertification and accreditationQualificationsLicensing or registrationResourcing your programChapter 6Measuring SuccessA word about program monitoring and evaluationPlanning your program for measurable resultsLogic modelsThe orders of outcomes frameworkBaselines and benchmarksUsing the ‘SMARTER’ checklist to frame measurable objectivesBuilding a logic model of your programAssessing the contribution of the training to your program outcomesGetting clear about learning, workplace, business and environmental outcomesThe training evaluation Auckland has doneParticipatory or collaborative monitoring and evaluationSome other thoughtsChapter 7At Last! The Training ItselfA book for adults who learn – trainers, trainees and the people around us allYour traineesUsing personas to characterize your traineesIndividual issues that affect our trainees’ ability to learnInstitutional issues that affect our trainees’ ability to learnYour trainingTechnical contentFraming learning objectives and outcomesDelivery: online, onsite, face to face, at work?PilotingTraining materialsFree or fee?SponsorshipYour trainersWho will deliver the training?Who will own the intellectual property?Training the your trainersChapter 8Ongoing Program SupportThe three golden rulesMust-haves to support your training programA stakeholder databaseImage and media archiveA marketing planA workshop logistics systemDocumentation of your proceduresBudgeting and tracking income and expenditureA web presenceA communication planNice-to-haves for your training programA learning management systemTwice-yearly seminar daysAnnual or two-yearly field daysConventional mediaSocial mediaEnvironmental awardsSupporting your wider environmental programOngoing researchPolicy, regulation, compliance and enforcementYour technical guidelineMonitoring and evaluationContinued resourcing and supportIndustry capacity-building and recruitmentThe environmental skills gapThe demographic and recruitment gapThe intra-agency and inter-interagency gapsChapter 9Beyond SuccessHow to Find Out MoreGeneral recommended readingPartnershipsTraining associationsTraining needs assessment, or analysis (TNA)Adult vocational education and trainingCapacity-buildingProgram logicMonitoring and evaluationReturn on investmentErosion and sediment controlAwardsWater sensitive urban designEnvironmental resources for schoolsReferences

       Figures

Figure 1 Becoming an environmental expert in your sector

Figure 2 Auckland and New Zealand

Figure 3 The seven elements of an effective environmental training program

Figure 4 How TNA aligns training, workplace, business and environmental objectives

Figure 5 A logic model approach to program planning, monitoring and evaluation

Figure 6 Aligning learning, workplace, business and environmental outcomes

Figure 7 Level 2 training evaluation: industry survey results

Figure 8 Blended delivery of environmental training

Figure 9 Some e-tools for blended delivery of training

       Tables

Table 1 How the seven steps relate to the chapter headings of this book

Table 2 Numbers that count: a simple erosion and sediment control scoring system

Table 3 To regulate or not to regulate?

Table 4 Professor Stephen Olsen’s orders of outcomes framework

Table 5 SMARTER checklist for setting measurable objectives

Table 6 Our wonderful training – debunking the myths

       Disclaimer

      This book is based on a long-standing environmental training program based in Auckland, New Zealand. It has now spread to many other parts of the country and has been emulated in Australia (we adopted it from the USA, so it keeps spreading!). The core principles are generic to any environmental jurisdiction, but because legal and administrative frameworks and levels of program resourcing vary from place to place, you will need to adapt the information provided to meet your own needs and opportunities.

      I can’t guarantee replicable results from following the advice in this book – though I know that if you use it to set up or enhance your environmental training program, or to better evaluate its outcomes, you will achieve more success.

       About the author

      Clare Feeney is an award-winning speaker and trainer. She has over 20 years’ experience in environmental management and training for sustainability.

      Clare has worked with factories, universities, farms, rivers and big earthworks sites – but she got out of sewage treatment before she fell in – it’s an occupational hazard of the job!

      This is Clare’s first book, and she has two more under way.

      Contact Clare for further support and about professional speaking and training via her website www.clarefeeney.com.

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