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Mentoring Is Not Always a Positive Experience On the second day of his job, Bob was introduced to his mentor and shown his office.
How might a succession planning system differ between high-potential employees and employees with midlevel managerial talent?
Discuss the characteristics of the most effective company development strategies. Which characteristic do you believe is most important? Why?
How might distance learning be designed and used to avoid some of the learning and transfer of training problems of the traditional lecture method?
Cisco Systems Account Managers Are Too Busy for Training Cisco Systems of San Jose, California, helps people make connections in business, education.
What are the potential benefits for the mentor and for the protégé? What is the best way to match mentors and protégés?
Your boss is interested in hiring a consultant to help identify potential managers from current employees of a fast-food restaurant.
Many employees are unwilling to relocate geographically because they like their current community and because spouses.
What acceptable methods can be used to show the costs and benefits of training without collecting statistics and conducting analyses?
Discuss the outcomes you would collect and the design you would use. How might your answer change if the managers had not yet attended the program?
How might you estimate the benefits of a training program designed to teach employees how to use the World Wide Web to monitor stock prices?
Discuss several factors that influence the choice of evaluation design. Which of these factors would have the greatest influence.
Discuss the steps of an action learning program. Which aspect of action learning do you think is most beneficial for learning?
What do threats to validity have to do with training evaluation? Identify internal and external threats to validity. Are internal and external threats similar?
You have a one-day classroom experience in which you need to help a group of engineers and software programmers learn to become project managers.
Consider three time periods (pretraining, during training, and after training) and three parties involved in transfer of training (manager, trainer, trainee).
Patagonia’s Culture Patagonia sells outdoors sports clothes and sporting equipment through specialty retailers, a catalog, and stores in North America.
A small group of U.S. plastics companies have enacted the Global Standards for Plastic Certification (GSPC) training program.
What conditions would suggest that a company should buy a training program from an outside vendor?
If you were going to use online technology to identify training needs for customer service representatives for a Web-based clothing company.
Explain how you would determine if employees had the reading level necessary to succeed in a training program.
Assume you have to prepare older employees with little computer experience to attend a training course on how to use the World Wide Web.
What value would it be to know that you were going to be training a class of persons between the ages of 20 and 35?
The trainee correctly demonstrates the process and repairs the connection on the first attempt! Has learning occurred? Justify your answer.
Your boss says, “Why do I need to tell you what type of learning capability I’m interested in? I just want a training program to teach employees.