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You will make a $12$ slide powerpoint presentation WITH SPEAKER NOTES. Each slide should have $2$ resources citatations.

Overview

In this second project, you will assess an organization$$s training plan and recommend revisions to stakeholders.$$

Scenario

You are an HR consultant for a company. $$Your newest client, Martha$$s Marketing, is asking you to review their existing training and learning plan for their $75-$employee firm. They want you to recommend any changes you would make for the upcoming year. They gave you$$re their current company data.

All $75$ employees participated in some job skills training in the previous year. All employees had mandatory training for compliance, and $10$ employees went to an outside training for leadership. Some sales training was conducted, but it was sporadic, and only about $20\%$ of the employees were able to complete it fully.$$

On the basis of employee insight survey data, only $40\%$ of the employees thought the training was $$worth their time$$ and $$relevant to the job.$$ Eighty$-$nine percent of employees rated training as important to their organizational happiness and overall retention.$$

Last year, the company spent $$90,000$ on training $($about $$1,200$ per person$).$

Overall, company performance has decreased $5\%$ in the past year. Seventy$-$eight percent of the employees were rated $$at target$$ or $$below target$$ during the last performance review cycle.$$

All training at the organization takes place on site and is conducted from the same vendor, Training Trailblazers.$$

Managers collectively agree that the training needs to transfer back to the job and needs to be measured for effectiveness.$$

Plan Effectiveness$$

In this part of the presentation, you will provide an overview of what kinds of plans are effective and of considerations for the company.$$

Identify$$appropriate stakeholders$$for participation in the training. Include the following in your response:$$

Identify appropriate stakeholders with whom to communicate the plan and who will receive the training.$$ How does an effective learning and development plan identify performance as a key factor to assess using data considerations?$$ Are there considerations to avoid making learning and development ineffective?$$

Discuss$$pros and cons of an organization training$$employees internally and externally. Consider the following in your response:$$

How does the approximate cost of internal training compare with the approximate cost of external training?$$ How does the time commitment required compare for internal versus external training?$$ Does the current plan have a good return on investment?$$

Determine if$$internal or external training$$would work best for the organization, justifying your response. Consider the following in your response:$$

On the basis of the pros and cons and what you know about the organization$$s needs, what options would work well? Provide your justification in the speaker notes.

Data Considerations$$

In this section, you will discuss how you approached analyzing the data to determine strengths and weaknesses.$$

Discuss$$strategies for assessing$$the effectiveness of the organization$$s current plan. Include the following:$$

What strategies did you use to assess the existing plan?$$ What key factors did you assess and why?$$

Use data to$$benchmark a learning and development plan. Consider the following:$$

Define the role of benchmarking and how it would be used.$$ Select key business metrics that support your findings and recommendations, elaborating in the speaker notes.$$ Which data comparisons make sense for benchmarking this plan?$$

Conduct a$$needs assessment$$to determine weaknesses in the current or previous learning and development plan. Include the following in your response:$$

Identify strengths and use data to support your claims.$$ Identify weaknesses and use data to support your claims.$$

Recommendation$$

In this section, you will use the information you provided and the data to make a recommendation for the organization to move forward.$$

Recommend$$revisions to the existing plan$$for meeting organizational needs. Consider the following in your response:$$

How will the revisions address existing concerns?$$

Examine the need$$to proactively create or revise the learning and development plan. Consider the following in your response:$$

What indicators suggest a need to revise the learning and development plan?$$

Discuss an$$action plan$$for deploying a new learning and development plan. Consider the following in your response:$$

How will you communicate this plan to stakeholders?$$ What needs to be communicated?$$

Describe appropriate$$tools and technology$$to carry out a learning and development plan. Consider the following:$$

Are there learning and development platforms or learning management systems that may be considered for implementing the plan?$$ How can technology be used to increase employee engagement?