Department of Communities and Justice

Delivering Records and Information Management Training to a Geographically Dispersed Government Workforce. With a large government agency workforce geographically dispersed across NSW, our client required an efficient way to deliver records and information management training ensuring staff could effectively perform their duties in supporting communities and meeting government compliance requirements were met.

Client

Department of Communities and Justice

Industry

State Government

Context

Our client creates safe, just, inclusive and resilient communities through the services it provides across NSW.  They required a range of records and information management training to support understanding, acceptance and adoption of good recordkeeping practices to support staff in providing services.

Previously, training was conducted via time-consuming web seminars that were inflexible for users. The agency’s existing e-learning platform presented an opportunity to streamline and enhance the delivery of records and information management training. The goal was to ease the burden on the training team while ensuring that staff across NSW could conveniently access and complete the necessary training.

Our Role

RKI Consulting was asked to develop a learning strategy and methodology that could deliver training to large volumes of staff in dispersed locations across NSW.  We consulted with the client to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the current training program’s delivery methodology and collateral content.  With this information we developed a strategy based on delivery of training content via an e-learning platform.  The records and information management training e-learning courses needed to meet the following criteria:

  • Learning objectives
  • Engaging and focused content with real life examples and scenarios for attendees to experience
  • Short 20-minute courses broken into smaller modules for easy self-paced learning.
  • Knowledge checks per module to confirm users understanding of concepts as they progresses through each course

Courses needed to be developed and go through rigorous testing by users to ensure the above criteria was met. Content needed to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and courses had to be developed in a SCORM compliant format to be imported into the agencies, online learning platform.

A key strategy of the project was to develop a training framework (toolkit) to support the newly developed content.  The team needed to track training progress across the organization to ensure compliance requirements were met.

Client Outcomes

  • Eight records management related courses including records management basics, systems training for two separate applications covering both basic and advanced processes.
  • Distribution of eight training courses across NSW that supports flexible learning outcomes for staff and supports and records management maturity.
  • Training toolkit including principles, change management model, roles and responsibilities, knowledge sharing methodology, training needs assessment and post training assessment for online modules.
  • Ability to strategically implement and track training progress across the organisation.

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