BUS 680 Week 4 Assignment

Required Resources

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Blanchard, P. N., & Thacker, J. W. (2013).  Effective training: Systems, strategies, and practices  (5th ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.

· Chapter 8: Development and Implementation of Training

Articles

Kahane, E. (2014, June 9). Why corporate education needs a digital strategy to avoid disruption. (Links to an external site.) Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/emc/2014/06/09/digital-learning-strategies-breaking-the-grip-of-the-rip?

· This article focuses on the need for improved corporate education strategy. Kahene (2014), discusses the need for the transformation of corporate education to include a digital aspect in order to remain competitive. This article is part of a series of articles. The next post by this author will discuss the digital business model strategy. Accessibility Statement does not exist. Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)

Jaidev, U., & Chirayath, S. (2012, October 1). Pre-training, during training and post-training activities as predictors of transfer of training. IUP Journal of Management Research, 11(4), 54-70. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.

· The purpose of this study is to determine whether pre-training, during-training and post-training activities significantly influence transfer of training, and also if the three predictors have a significant relationship with transfer of training. Accessibility Statement (Links to an external site.) Privacy Policy (Links to an external site.)

Multimedia

Forbes. (2014, May 23).  Educating a generation of matchmakers  (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU2fW199pX0&list=PL841BABB2A54600E4

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CommLab India. (2011, December 5). Employee training process (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1jmpMHgOPg

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Recommended Resources

Articles

Martijn van, D.L., Karen, V.D., & Chiaburu, D.S. (2013). Getting the most of management training: The role of identical elements for training transfer. Personnel Review, 42(4), 422-439. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/PR-05-2011-0072

· Focusing on management training, the purpose of this paper is to establish whether identical elements in a training program (i.e. aspects resembling participants’ work situation) can improve training transfer and whether they do so beyond the contribution of two well-established predictors – motivation to learn and expected utility.

Meyer, S. (2014, July 10). Single-concept learning: A radical alternative to traditional workplace training (Links to an external site.). Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemeyer/2014/07/10/single-concept-learning-a-radical-alternative-to-traditional-workplace-training/

· This article focuses on an innovative new type of training. The author argues that the existing types of trainings do not ensure learning transfer and that corporate training needs to be re-designed.

Multimedia

L8ybugmom. (2012, April 5).  How to create a power point presentation (Links to an external site.)  [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyoeGSFmI4E&noredirect=1

LearnitAnytime (2013, June 6). PowerPoint 2010: Speaker notes  (Links to an external site.) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4oScGkqMAw

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ATD (2014). ATD Best Awards 2014 (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://www.astd.org/About/ASTD-Awards/Best-Awards

Week 4 – Assignment

PLEASE FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS

Training Development

Last week, you submitted a proposal for the design of a two-day workshop to train managers on how to use effective feedback skills when delivering one-on-one performance reviews to employees. Design a 15-20 slide PowerPoint presentation that would be used in this training workshop (excluding the title and reference slides). Use the features of PowerPoint to effectively present the material to managers. Create a professional visual using various design elements, such as: background, color, font style, animations, transitions, audio, images, etc. Include approximately 50 words of speaker notes on each slide (a total of approximately 750-1,000 words). These notes are the a facilitator’s script. Identify at least three specific learning objectives for this training (making any necessary modifications to the learning objectives that were submitted in the proposal last week).

Your introductory slide must include a clear and concise description of the training. Your presentation must also include citations and references from the Blanchard and Thacker (2013) text and at least three additional scholarly sources. Your final submission should include: 1) the PowerPoint with facilitator notes, and 2) a comprehensive APA-formatted Word transcript of all slide notes/ facilitator’s script (a total of approximately 750-1,000 words), including a reference page. 

As needed, use the  How to create a power point presentation (Links to an external site.)  video for instructions and tips on how to create PowerPoint presentations and the  PowerPoint 2010: Speaker notes (Links to an external site.)  video for instructions on how to create Speaker notes in PowerPoint presentations.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.