What are two advantages of outsourcing training that is beyond an organization's HR department's expertise?
What conflict between the strategic mindset of organizational executives and the tactical mindset of trainers can interfere with aligning training to organizational strategies?
Suppose an organization's strategy is to be a cost leader. To avoid paying a full-time trainer, the organization is looking for an outside organization to train its employees. How would HR align training with the cost-leader strategy?
Each phase of career development—the assessment phase, the direction phase and the development phase—involves different activities. How do the activities in the direction phase align strategic training with career development? In your response, provide an example of a tool that can be used in the direction phase.
Describe how "force-field analysis" can benefit training
Explain how milestones are used in evaluating performance. In your response, provide an example of a milestone that would be used to evaluate performance and explain how training aligns with milestones.
Identify two problems with externally based training.
An assessment of a training program for sales people in multiple branches of a company found that some branches were higher performing than other branches. What strategy should the company use to deal with this disparity?
What is a professional employer organization (PEO) and how can hiring a PEO to perform training help a company achieve its strategic goals?
Explain how a "mixed strategy" of in-house training and outsourcing works. Use an example in your response.
What are the three common phases in creating an individual employee development program?
If HRD decides to use a consultant, how would HRD gather information about the consultant?