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Go to www.sabrehq.com, the Web site for Sabre Corporate Development. Click on Team Building Events. Choose one of the activities and events found on this page, and review it. Discuss what you would do to ensure that the team building event you selected is successful.
Choose a job with which you are familiar. Develop a self-directed learning module for a skill that is important for that job.
Discuss the steps of an action learning program. Which aspect of action learning do you think is most beneficial for learning? Which aspect is most beneficial for transfer of training? Explain why. Defend your choices.
Table 7.10 compares training methods on a number of characteristics. Explain why simulation and behavior modeling receive high ratings for transfer of training.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the lecture, the case study, and behavior modeling?
Go to www.roiinstitute.net, the web site for ROI Institute, Inc., the leading resource on research, training, and networking for practitioners of the Phillips ROI Methodology.TM Click on “Tools.” Review the “Nations Hotels––Measuring the ROI in Business Coaching.” What are the strengths
Cablevision developed an e-learning course that taught salespersons how to increase the number of cable television subscribers, thereby increasing revenue. The company wants to know if salespersons will increase upselling of cable television services (e.g., premium channels) and will try to sell
Sears designed a training program to improve tool and hardware sales. The two-hour program involved distance learning and was broadcast from the Sears training facility to 50 salespersons at 10 store locations in the United States. The salespersons are paid $15 per hour. The program involved
Domino’s Pizza was interested in determining whether a new employee could learn how to make a pizza using a computer-based training method (CD-ROM). The CD-ROM application addresses the proper procedure for “massaging” a dough ball and stretching it to fit a 12-inch pizza pan. Domino’s
What acceptable methods can be used to show the costs and benefits of training without collecting statistics and conducting analyses? Explain these methods and their strengths and weaknesses compared to a cost-benefit analysis.
What metrics might be useful for evaluating the effectiveness of a company’s training function? Discuss and rate their importance.
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?
This chapter discussed several factors that influence the choice of evaluation design. Which of these factors would have the greatest influence on your choice of an evaluation design? Which would have the smallest influence? Explain your choices.
What are results outcomes? Why do you think most organizations don’t use results outcomes for evaluating their training programs?
. The mission at Tires Plus’s headquarters and its 500 stores in 22 states is to encourage employees to be the same at work as they are in every other area of their lives. Tires Plus sells and repairs tires and provides other car repair services. Employees at Tires Plus include managers, various
. What is human capital? How is human capital influencing the changing role of training from skill and knowledge acquisition to creating and sharing knowledge?
. Compare and contrast the corporate university model with the faculty model. How are they similar? How do they differ?
. Evaluate Nextel Communications’s training organization using the five competencies of the business-embedded model. Would you consider Nextel Communications’s training organization to be a BE training function?
. Are any of the strategic training and development initiatives more important for small business? Explain.
. Which strategic training and development initiatives do you think all companies should support in today’s economic climate? Why?
. Shering-Plough HealthCare Products Inc. decided several years ago to expand its product line by developing pocket-size sticks and sprays of Coppertone sunblocks, previously only available as lotions packaged in squeeze bottles. The company placed a strategic emphasis on developing markets for
. Which model or combination of models is best for organizing the training function? Why?
. Discuss what factors need to be considered before making the decision to outsource training.
. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of organizing the training function according to the faculty, customer, matrix, corporate university, and business-embedded models.
. Explain how the role of training is changing.

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