01 Oct Strategic Training and Development Initiatives
HRM420 Training and Development
Week 1 Discussion
Strategic Training and Development Initiatives
Which strategic training and development initiatives do you think all companies should support regardless of economic conditions? Why?
Secondly, are any of the strategic training and development initiatives more important for small businesses? Explain.
HRM420 Training and Development
Week 2 Discussion
Training
Give an example of training you were required to do at work that seemed pointless and irrelevant to your job. Do you think the training wasted resources for your company? Was it based on a faulty or lacking needs assessment? What would you (as the training professional) have done differently?
HRM420 Training and Development
Week 3 Discussion
It is established that training goals and objectives are necessary for training design and to ensure appropriate learner outcomes. But how can we determine what our learner outcome(s) should be? And how does this translate into a solid training goal and objectives?
HRM420 Training and Development
Week 4 Discussion
It is assumed that our jobs as training professionals are to train people. But this entails far more than developing or leading training sessions. We also have to consider the costs of training. What questions might we expect to have to answer from upper management concerning the costs of training?
