Strategic T&D Report

For the past 18 years, Training magazine has ranked organizations based on their employer-sponsored training and development programs. Links in attachment for further research.

Choose one of Training magazine’s top five organizations and investigate the organization’s strategic training and development initiatives.

Prepare a 3-5 page report based on your research.

Using the criteria Training uses to rank organizations as well as from your own research, prepare a 3-5 page report about strategic training and development in your chosen organization. Please read attachments for criteria to be included in report.

Attached are the instructions and the Week 1 overview.

1. A description of the organization and its major products and/or services (a brief

description -- no more than two or three paragraphs). Try to find information ab out

the organization’s mission and/or goals and how its training function is organized .

The organization’s website and its annual report, particularly the letter to

shareholders at the beginning of the annual report, are good sources of information.

Be sure to cite the specific web page where you found information used in your

report.

2. An assessment of the characteristics of the organization that help it excel in training

and development. Include factors such as (but not limited to) the total budget for or

amount of money spent on training and development; the level of employee

involvement in training and development activities; the type(s) of training and

development opportunities offered; the organization’s investment in and/or use of

technology for training; and the availability of benefits such as tuition assistance .

3. An assessment of how the TD function operates i n the organization. How is the TD

function organized? For a description of three training organizational models, read

Organizational Models in Training (Training Industry, 2013), available at

http://www.trainingindustry.com/wiki/entries/organizational -models-in-training.aspx.

Does the organization use training needs analyses (TNAs) to identify performance

gaps or the need for new skills to support busines s strategies and initiatives? Does

the organization employ the ADDIE, RID, or Agile approaches to design training?

Does the organization embrace any of the TD competencies described in the ATD

competency model mentioned in the Week 1 lecture?

Support your opinions and statements with a minimum of four references from sources

published within the last ten years. You can cite scholarly and practitioner -oriented

journals, course materials, newspaper articles, YouTube videos by or about the

organization, the organization’s annual report, and the organization’s web site, but not

Wikipedia, vendor websites, or other non-academic sources. The UMUC library can

help you identify appropriate sources.

Use APA format for citations, references, and quotations. This means your list of

references should start on a separate page , and should be double spaced, with a

hanging indent and no spaces between entries. For help with APA format, please

consult the Writing Resources module in the Course Resources section of o ur

classroom. Your report should be three to five pages (not counting the cover or

reference pages), double spaced with one inch margins and a font size of at least 11

points.