Roderick L. Abad / Special Features Writer
THE Philippine Society for Training and Development
(PSTD) has announced their “ambitious yet doable” plan to make the
country a workplace learning and performance (WLP) hub in Asia.
“PSTD’s vision is to
make the Philippines a WLP hub in Asia and eventually, the whole world,”
PSTD President Milalin Javellana told the BusinessMirror in an
interview during the press launch of the Gawad Maestro Awards last week
in Ortigas. “We are pushing for it because even now we still hear the
word training rather than learning and development.”
WLP
is the new paradigm for training, which connects learning with
performance. It can have different learning interventions, such as
coaching on the job and e-learning, which are appropriate in the
workplace. If done properly, this leads to both enhanced individual and
organizational performances.
While
WLP is just developing in the country, PSTD Board of Trustee and PSTD
Academy Chairman Fe Marie Cabantac said the Philippines has the
potential to become the training destination in the region because of
competent Filipino trainers and world-class facilities.
“In
fact, countries are already starting to come to the Philippines for
their training requirements,” she noted, citing Bhutan as having its
recent training conducted in the Meralco Management and Leadership
Development Center.
As
an advocate for WLP, the president of the 46-year-old training and
development organization disclosed that they are on the process of
developing a certification, which their more than 400 corporate members
and individuals clamor for.
“We
want to be the certificate body for [WLP in] the Philippines. We target
to launch it first quarter of next year,” Javellana said.
PSTD
had already developed and tested the 12 competencies for WLP
certification last year. At present, the group is deliberating on their
crafted four certificate levels.
The
levels for WLP certification, according to PSTD Vice President and
Convention Chairman Elvie Tarrobal, are based on the “transition or
ladderized progression of a trainer.”
According
to her, Level 1 is for professional trainers, who can design, analyze
and evaluate training programs of lasting value to the organization,
while Level 2 is for managers, whose interventions are geared toward
meeting the objectives of an organization.
Levels 3 and 4, Tarrobal said, are for organizational champions and experts, respectively.
Besides
working on the certification for WLP, PTSD advocates on that paradigm
shift by coming up with the Gawad Maestro Awards 2011.
The
first WLP citation honors and recognizes outstanding individuals and
organizations that have demonstrated leadership and creativity in
improving overall business performance.
The
awarding ceremony will be held on Nov. 21 at the Grand Ballroom of the
Diamond Hotel in Manila, with no less than international ballerina Liza
Macuja-Elizalde as the guest of honor.
The
categories for the awards are Outstanding WLP Professional, Outstanding
WLP Manager, Outstanding WLP Organizational Champion, Outstanding WLP
Program/Intervention, and Outstanding WLP Leader Extraordinaire.
The
Maestro Awards, according to Javellana, is a prelude to PSTD’s hosting
of an international convention in November next year called the “Asian
Regional Training Organization.”
“We
want to highlight [through the convention] the Philippines has good
practices in WLP. So we can be speakers in that. The awardees can be the
benchmark. The international leagues can visit these companies and see
how they practice and adopt it,” she said.
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