Inzpire Carries Out Analysis to Prepare QinetiQ’s Test and Evaluation Sovereign Skills Program
14 Aug 22
Collective Training and Services OBU
To support the planning and creation of QinetiQ’s Test and Evaluation Sovereign Skills program - a structured and bespoke development plan aimed at building a sovereign test and evaluation (T&E) skill set in Australia that launched in January 2022 - Inzpire performed a number of in-depth reviews during the second half of 2021, to analyse and confirm the T&E knowledge held by QinetiQ’s UK-based expert T&E team. The T&E team are the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) whose knowledge and expertise QinetiQ’s program content will be based upon and who will be involved in coaching and mentoring the program’s participants.
Carried out by Inzpire’s Training Services Division, one of the reviews looked in-depth at the T&E technical knowledge, skills and associated behaviours of QinetiQ’s suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP). After eight weeks of analysis, including interviews and site visits, the Inzpire team made recommendations on how to transfer the identified T&E skills and knowledge to QinetiQ’s team in Australia, as part of the Test and Evaluation Sovereign Skills program.
The development and sustainment of a SQEP resource is not a series of independent and isolated activities, but an integrated and dynamic process – a ‘learning journey’. This journey begins by understanding what employees are expected to do and then establishing what they can do, before offering innovative and modern solutions to support them in achieving and maintaining the necessary knowledge and skills to meet their aims and objectives.
In order to complete this full analysis for QinetiQ, Inzpire’s training consultants followed four key steps:
- Phase 1 – Scoping Exercise (SE). The SE highlighted the parameters of the task and how it should be carried out, thus ensuring that analysis and research remained focused on the initial requirements.
- Phase 2 – Role Analysis (RA). The RA defined job role requirements/competencies and requisite skills, and included the operational performance, conditions and standards of the tasks that are required to be carried out by a number of roles.
- Phase 3 – Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour (KSB) Gap Analysis. This step included a review of the input standard for each role against the “existing competence” and analysing the KSB gap that was been identified between the input standard and the requirements defined by the RA.
- Phase 4 – Training Options Analysis. This step included reporting how to best develop the necessary KSBs defined by Phase 3 to meet the role requirements defined by Phase 2, using method and media analysis and by conducting market research.
Tineke Brooks, Head of Training Services Division, said: “Inzpire's Training Services Division is delighted to have been able to support QinetiQ in conducting the analysis that has provided recommendations for developing the international Test and Evaluation resource capability of the future".
QinetiQ is the latest in a long line of organisations to benefit from the expertise of Inzpire’s Training Services Division, with the company’s training consultants also having delivered role training analysis projects for Network Rail, as well as providing training analysis services to UK defence intelligence at Defence Intelligence Training Group, Chicksands. Internationally, the company’s training consultants have delivered capability and training development assessments to customers in the fields of electronic warfare and unmanned air systems.
Inzpire’s Training Services Division provides consultancy and end-to-end training services including training analysis, design and development, digital learning and training assurance externally to clients worldwide and also internally to Inzpire’s own employees.
The team prides itself on the quality and flexibility of its scoping and analysis toolset and is able to conduct focussed and objective analysis for training, job roles, equipment or processes in any given market or sector, and has done successfully, both in the UK and abroad.
Inzpire’s training consultants, each with a minimum of 10 years’ training consultancy experience are skilled and qualified in the delivery and provision of scoping exercises, role analysis, gap analysis, method and media analysis and training options analysis.
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