Training, Learning, and Development
Aristotle said it best when he declared, “Excellence is an art won by training and habit.” Today’s successful organizations expand upon excellence by ensuring not only training and on-the-job learning is ongoing, but that they also adopt industry best practices to help grow and retain a strong workforce. Some might respond to this sentiment by asking what happens if you invest in training and your employees leave? You may think it would be worse if you do not train your employees and they stay.
For purposes of this course, training is defined as a practice where the knowledge, skills, and abilities of employees are increased to better manage the demands of their jobs. Learning focuses on what employees are doing in their organizations and how they might be able to do it better. While not directly linked to the type of learning you would imagine in a training set, a learning organization is one where assessment processes are recognizable.
Finally, development is how skills are presented to employees in a manner that helps improve future performance.
Something to consider as you read this week’s readings is how as the demand for training, learning, and development grow, the responsibility for ensuring fulfillment of the three diffuses to all parts of an organization.
Be sure to review this week’s resources carefully. You are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.
Week 3 – Assignment: Explain How Employee Investment Improves Retention and Morale
Assignment
This week, you will prepare a video presentation with a PowerPoint file.
You have read about employee development in the organizational setting. As part of your training, you are required to give a PowerPoint presentation to departmental managers throughout the organization, keeping the following thought in mind:
Many companies don’t want to invest money in training because they believe it is lost when those employees leave.
Explore the paradoxes in the above statement. Include in your presentation a brief discussion on how training and development might impact employee motivation or even morale as a whole. Use examples from the readings.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs and should cite material appropriately.
Support your presentation with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Length: 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 200-350 words for each slide
Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate.