Certified Learning & Development Manager

PROJECT GUIDELINES

Note

1. This section contains an overview of the certification process.

2. Contact details of all the relevant people of Middle Earth are mentioned in this section.
Should you have any issues during the entire course, feel free to write to the concerned person.

3. Detailed guidelines on project work are mentioned. Project should be strictly as per the
mentioned format.

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 1.1. The Three Stages Of The Certification Process

Workshop – 16hrs

Project – 5weeks

Certification & Evaluation process – 4 weeks after Project Submission

Stage 1:
The first step in our comprehensive learning process is a 16hrs of workshop which would
introduce you to the concepts pertaining to the course. The workshop is an interactive session
facilitated by qualified and experienced faculty with a number of exercises, best practices and
cases to enhance applied learning.

Stage 2- Project Work:

As a next step you would have to complete a project work which would be an implementation of
the learning from the workshop. The candidate must note that the certification process follows
globally accepted standards of evaluation based on a combination of knowledge and skill
evaluation which will be done based on the research project submitted by the participant.

It will assess your understanding of the concepts as per certification standards. The project
should have high degree of workplace relevance. It should be comprehensive in terms of the
steps involved. The project could be done in the current organization of the participant or he/she
can choose a previous/dummy organization in a specific industry and complete the project

The detailed guidelines to complete the project are given in section 2 of this guide and the
project should be strictly as per the project guidelines. Support can be taken three levels –
assessment team, project guide, faculty (see 1.3 for complete details)

Stage 3- Certification:
The certification process- post project submission would take around 4 weeks from the date of
submission of the project. The participants have to submit a soft copy of their project for
evaluation. Post evaluation, the certificate would be dispatched to the address mentioned in the
project submission form which you would have to submit along with the soft copy of your
project. A confirmation of the address would be sought before dispatching the certificates.
All the Long Term (who have taken 4-5 courses together) participants would be sent their
individual certificates and Licentiate/ Fellowship certificate only on successful completion of the
course.(which is after completing all the programs).
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 1.2. Key Points To Note During The three stage certification Process:

 Middle Earth reserves exclusive rights on all the projects submitted and the projects may be
uploaded on the web. Kindly do not mention the name of the company or any
confidential data in the project.

 The project should be a bonafide work of the candidate and must have been submitted
exclusively to MEHR. Any project which is found to be copied or plagiarized would not be
evaluated and the candidate has to re-submit it.

 All the projects have to be strictly as per the project guidelines mentioned in the Project
guide. All the projects should be in single Word document. If you use any Excel/scanned
PDF file, please embed it to the document. All support documents for the project, if any, can
also be embedded. Assignments in any other formats would not be accepted.

 Late Fee: The project has to be submitted within the timeline given. Late submission
attracts a penalty of $10 per week for participants outside India/ Rs.500 per week for
participants in India and post 3 weeks from the deadline a re-certification fee of $100 for
participants outside India /Rs.3000 for participants in India needs to be paid. All requests
regarding late submission have to be written to assessmentsupport@middleearthhr.com

 2 people are allowed for doing a single project in case they have attended the program
together. They need to submit the project at a time by mentioning the details of both the
participants in the Project Submission Form.

 A project can be resubmitted in case the person obtains ‘Fail’ grade. One can also resubmit a
project by paying an extra $25 in case his/her marks are low.

 The evaluation process takes 4 weeks as it goes through 3 checkpoints - the first level check
is done by the assessment support team to check completeness of the project as well as the
project submission forms. The second level check is done by an external Verifier who
verifies and assigns a score. After verification transcript is prepared & is kept with the
assessment team for the random audit purpose. After which the certification is prepared,
signed and sent to you. So do be patient and if you would like a status on the project do write
to the assessment support.

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1.3. The Three Levels of Support for Project ( stage 2 ) and certification ( stage 3 ) :-

Level 1:
For details regarding certification process, templates, project deadlines, submission please write to
assessmentsupport@middleearthhr.com

Level 2:
For any technical assistance on specific project related queries on CLDM write to
assessmentsupport@middleearthhr.com

Level 3:
The final level of support is your faculty for this program. For any complex queries, please write to
your faculty.

1.4. Weekly Projects:-

Week - 1:

 Identify any 1 role in your company

 Create a Job description for the role using ONET

 Do a detailed job element analysis and identify the threshold and differentiating
knowledge and skill, select 4-5 key functional knowledge and skill for the role.

Week - 2:

For the 1 role identified use the QUAN COM table or company values identify 1-2 key behaviors.

For the 1 role which you have identified take the 4-5 functional elements and take 1-2 behavioral
elements write a bars chart.

Week - 3:

Create a Assessment matrix for any one role.

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 Week - 4:

Take any one program running in your company and Plan to evaluate using Kirkpatrick model.
Write your plan to evaluate the training.

1.5. Preparing your project for submission:-

NOTE - All the participants have to give a Project Summary for the project, when they submit
their project. The Project summary should be one to two page abstract and must contain the
following heads:
i. Objective – Clearly outlining what was the outcome expected of the project
ii. Scope of project in terms of Department/ positions and industry- this must outline the
position, the industry. location details if important
iii. Methodology followed- this would give detailed steps followed and clarifying each
step
iv. Brief overview of Findings- what was the end result
v. Conclusions- any final conclusions you carried
You need to start the project by completing the project summary form given at the end of this
document – No project would be accepted without the project summary form being appended

Note: All submitted Assignment will be the Intellectual property of Middle Earth
Consultants. This may be uploaded on the net and hence any confidential material that is
not to be shared should not be put in the assignment. All the project options will be given
equal weight age.
"Middle Earth will not be responsible for any loss of confidentiality suffered by the
company."

PROJECT SUBMISSION FORM

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Your Exact Name (This will be printed on your certificate):

Name of the program:

Date of attendance (will be printed on your certificate):

Date of Submission: / /

IF you a participant from WHRB/CAMI/Inhouse - Your Batch location and year:

Valid Email ID:

POSTAL ADDRESS YOU WANT THE CERTIFICATE TO BE DISPATCHED AT:

Name:

Street Address 1:

Street Address 2:

City: State/Province:

Post/Zip Code: Country:

Working Mobile No:

Working land phone No:

NOTE:
1. Please note that the above given name will be printed on the certificate. Participants need to
take utmost care in giving correct name.
2. In the absence of the above details the project won’t be evaluated.
3. Participants need to provide complete and correct address for the dispatch of the certificates.
In case the address is incorrect – reprinting and courier charges will need to be paid
4. The project must in be in single MS word document not exceeding 5MB
5. By this submission you accept that the project can be used freely as part of the and MEC
knowledge center / digital library and can be used by them for research and learning.

As per the policy, we request you to fill the project submission form attached in the first
page of your project and send it along with the project in the same file.
If the project submission form is not present in the project document, we cannot process for
certification.
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