Role As A Director Of Training
STAND-ALONE PROJECT
MR632 Training and Development
Stand-Alone Project: Your Role as Director of Training (200
points)
You should begin working on the Stand-Alone Project early in
the course. Each lesson provides a benchmark for completing the Stand-Alone
Project in a timely manner while working through the course. You will find this
information in the “Stand-Alone Project Benchmark” section of each lesson. (200
points) (A 10-page response is required for the combination of Parts A, B, and
C.)
Instructions: Select a company of your choice and review its
website. Assume that the company you select has just created a department to
manufacture and sell a new communications device that will significantly reduce
the time and cost invested in all transactions made by telephone and computer.
Make sure that you select a company to which the addition of this new
department would make sense. The device will be called the Automated
Communications Wizard (ACW). The president of the division you work for has
chosen you, the Director of Training, to be in charge of the training function
for the newly created department, located in Tampa, Florida.
Your Stand-Alone Project requires that you complete two
tasks: You will write a training program; then you will develop a presentation
to sell your program to the president of the new division. Your report should
be 15 pages in length, including a cover sheet, table of contents, and
conclusion page. In addition, you must submit a minimum of 14 PowerPoint
slides. Your Stand-Alone Project responses should be both grammatically and
mechanically correct and formatted in the same fashion as the project itself. If
there is a Part A, your response should identify a Part A, etc. In addition,
you must appropriately cite all resources used in your response and document
them in a bibliography using APA style. (200 points)
(A 15-page, double-spaced response and 14 slides are
required.)
Part A Report/Training
Program: Based on the company you selected, set up a training program that
incorporates the seven major areas listed below. (110 points)
1. Links: Explain the ways in which the training and
development that you initiate will be linked to the company’s strategic
training and development initiatives.
a. Include the company’s vision, mission, experience,
understanding, innovation, cooperation, commitment, and the ways in which the
training will be linked to these factors.
b. Include the company’s customers, organizational products,
existing and the newly created products and services, research and development,
business systems, continuous learning, and how the results will be linked to
the strategic training and development initiatives.
c. Include information about identification of needed
knowledge, skills, abilities or competencies, ensuring that current training
and development programs support the company’s strategic needs.
2. Roles: Explain, systematically, the role that you will
play in the training process, from beginning to end, and who will play
additional roles. All must relate to the company’s strategic business
direction.
3. Type: Explain the type of training that you will initiate
based on your needs assessment, including the use of a competency model.
4. Model: Select a model that you will use to organize the
training department, addressing the following.
a. The
reasons for your choice
b. The
processes of learning
c. External
instructional events
d. Forms of
instruction
5. Transfer: What are four (4) ways the training will
transfer?
6. Methods: What are the two (2) training methods that you
will use and why?
7. Evaluation: How will the training will be evaluated?
Include data related to
Return on Investment.
Part B PowerPoint
Presentation: Prepare a formal PowerPoint presentation in defense of your
training plan for this new department. You will deliver this presentation to
gain the support for your training program from the president of the division.
Your presentation must include the following. (70 points)
1. Seven (7) slides, each summarizing and highlighting one
(1) of the seven (7) components of your training plan
2. Seven (7) additional slides presenting a total of seven
(7) charts and/or graphs to support each of the seven (7) components of your
plan, as described in your report
Part C Conclusion: Use your written report, together with
your supporting PowerPoint presentation and charts and/or graphs, as your sales
presentation to justify the training program that you are proposing. (20
points)
