Interactive activity

Learning Goal: I’m working on a management project and need support to help me learn.

Week 6: Interactive activity

1.1 Learning Outcomes:

• Discuss how training, informal learning, and knowledge management can contribute to continuous learning and companies’ business strategy.
• Explain the role of the manager in identifying training needs and supporting training on the job.
• Conduct a needs assessment.
• Evaluate employees’ readiness for training.
• Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of presentation, hands-on, and group training methods.
• Identify the major parts of an effective performance management process.
• Discuss the three general purposes of performance management.
• Identify the five criteria for effective performance management systems.
• Discuss the five approaches to performance management, the specific techniques used in each approach, and the way these approaches compare with the criteria for effective performance management systems.
• Choose the most effective approach to performance measurement for a given situation.

6.2 Action Required:

Here are five behavioral critical thinking questions.

1. How do you go about completing a task without clear information?
2. What is the most difficult work-related decision you’ve had to make?
3. How do you respond to opposing viewpoints?
4. How quickly do you make decisions?
5. Have you ever anticipated a problem before it arose? How did you deal with it?

6.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):

Pick two questions of your choice and answer them in your own words

6.4 Instructions:

• Answer the question in test your knowledge section.
• Post your answer in the discussion board using the discussion link below (Week6:Interactive learning Discussion)