Training &
Development Process
Prof Greg decided to
leave academia and go back into the real world. He has just promoted you to his
L & D manager position. Our company has offices in Baltimore, D.C., and
Richmond, VA. We are growing rapidly and need to develop a supervisor training
program for the entire company. We have about 50 supervisors at each location.
We have to integrate people into our culture and build a leadership culture that
is based on engagement, empowerment, and innovation. In the past, we have sent
our supervisors to public seminars like Fred Pryor/Career Track etc. But we
want to build a program that is learner-centered rather than event driven so
that our supervisors are constantly getting better. This program should be
comprehensive. It should address how they would acquire ‘soft skills’ (e.g.
conflict and change management, communication, etc) as well as
process/procedural skills (e.g. writing a budget or a performance review).
You are meeting with
VP Greg next week. He would like you to write a ‘White Paper’ (essay) of less
than 1500 words on what methodologies you would use to implement the leadership
development program for the meeting. Use the knowledge about learning theories,
transfer of learning, evaluating training, and methodologies including
e-learning. Be realistic when you think about the cost of the program. You do
not have an unlimited budget but you do have enough money to get the job done.
Also, your company has strong technology including cloud computing
capabilities.
Include a couple of
paragraphs in the essay about how you would evaluate the training. Note: the
goal of your evaluation should be to improve the training and reporting back to
executive management about its success.
