Assignment Requirements
TRAINING PROGRAM CASE STUDY
ASSIGNMENT
In order to continue designing the employee training program you are developing, you will do a case study of a national or international company in your field. You will research the target company’s training program online and design a 10-15 slide digital presentation to present your findings to your board of directors.
DELIVERABLES
For Project 2, you will submit a professionally-designed presentation for the company’s board of directors, that includes:
◾Cover Slide
Your name, report title, date
◾Introduction
Summarizes the need for developing the formal training for your company. The introduction also provides the name and location of the company whose training program was assessed for this project.
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◾Case Study
Through online research identify a company that publishes extensive information on their training/professional development program. Please remember that companies may call their training programs different names (ex.: professional development, knowledge management, leadership programs, etc.). In this section of the project, include:
◾The name and web address of the company
◾The name of the training program
◾A summary of the purpose and target audience of the training program
◾Do NOT copy and paste from the company’s website. You must summarize the information in your own words.
◾How much money is invested in training?
◾Training program learning outcomes/goals/topics (What are the training topics? What are the goal knowledge/skills?)
◾How are the trainings delivered (online, face-to-face, CD/DVD, or other method)?
◾Who designs and delivers the trainings (an in-house trainer, outside company, or consultant)?
◾When do the employees go through the training (during or after work)? Are they compensated?
◾Is diversity of the learners/employees addressed in the training program? If yes, how?
◾Is employee motivation addressed or promoted? If yes, how?
◾What role does technology play in the trainings?
◾Any other information relevant to training that you find in your research of this company
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◾Conclusion
In the conclusion, please please identify 2-3 strengths and 2-3 weaknesses of the training program you analyzed. Conclude with a discussion of what you learned from the case study (best practices) that you could apply to the training you are developing.
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◾References
Properly cited in APA format
. Please review the tutorial provided in the course menu (to the left of this screen) for citing References.
Use free Internet services to automatically format references, such as Son of Citation. Available at: https://citationmachine.net
PROJECT DRAFT FEEDBACK
This is optional. If you email me a draft of the project at least 3 days before the due date, I will provide detailed feedback, so you can make the necessary changes before you submit the final project for grading. If you email me a draft of Project 1 and do not receive a response within 24 hours, please contact me again. I may not have received the email. Please remember, if you upload the project in the Submit Projects Here menu link in Blackboard, it is for FINAL grading.
DUE DATE
Please visit the Course Schedule for the due date. Please click on Course Schedule in the main course menu in Blackboard.
FILE SUBMISSION FORMAT
The presentation file or web address uploaded to Project 2 using the Submit Projects Here button in the main menu in Blackboard.
You can use any presentation software program you have available. Today, there are many free online presentation services (ex.: Prezi) with which you can create a professional presentation. Please keep in mind that whatever presentation software you select to design your presentation has to be easily viewable by your client (the instructor) either as an upload-able media file or URL (web address).
SUBMISSION METHOD
To be graded, Project 2 must be uploaded on or before the project due date to Blackboard. Please click the Submit Projects Here button in the left course menu and follow the instructions provided. Once you have uploaded the project to Blackboard, it is for FINAL grading.
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