Ashford University - BUS 680 Training and Development - week 2 DBs plus assignment

Week Two Overview

Readings

1. Read the following chapters in Effective Training:
   • Chapter Four: Needs Analysis
   • Appendix 4-1:
   • Chapter Five: Training Design

Discussions

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1. Design Consulting

   Conduct an Internet search to identify a company that provides training design consulting services. Discuss the design process. Respond to one of your classmates’ postings. In your response, compare and contrast the design process of the company you chose and the one your classmate chose. Do this comparison in terms of the design process approach.

2. Domtar Case Study

   Reread the Domtar Case Study (p.1-3) from Chapter 1. Answer Case Analysis question 1 on page 207.

Assignments

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Hardware Store Case Analysis

Read the Case Analysis at the end of chapter 4, on pages 147-148 (print text) and answer the questions that follow.