Interview Experiences and the Strategic Value of Training Evaluation

Interview Experiences and the Strategic Value of Training Evaluation

Instructions

Discussion question 1 Prompt: What is the best interview question and/or the most inappropriate question you have ever been asked? Why do you feel that way and how did you respond?

Discussion question 2 Prompt: Why is evaluating training an important part of strategic training?

Each discussion will need to be 250 words each leaving the promt at the top of each discussion each discussion will need to have 2 sources for each 

Employee Management

 

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Employee Management

Prompt 1

When asked, "What are your ideas on failure?" was the finest interview question I have ever been asked. This is a great question since it gave me, as the interviewee, a chance to reflect on my feelings and approach the possibility of failure. I demonstrated my resilience and capacity to deal with adversity by discussing my thoughts about failure and how I deal with it.

I responded by saying that mistakes are a sign of ignorance and that learning from them makes a person smarter, so they do not make the same mistake again. To elaborate, I shared a personal story of experiencing a setback that taught me to proceed with caution in future endeavors. Early in my career, I was notorious for setting impossible goals for myself and my team. I was in charge of a project for a very lucrative customer. Being in charge of the project for the first time, I was eager to do a good job.

Regarding a question concerning timelines and deliverables, I said we could have it done in four weeks. At first, I believed that was doable. To boost output, I pushed my staff. Sadly, I was wrong about how long the project would take to finish, and it took six weeks. I should have been more cautious with the deadline, and the customer could have been more pleased. The customer would be satisfied if I had been forthright and given a more reasonable timeline. Nowadays, I have started giving myself extra time to complete tasks in the future. The next job I oversaw was almost similar, although I estimated eight weeks instead of four. Our crew finished the job in five weeks, which impressed the customer.

Prompt 2

An individual's training may be enhanced by an assessment method that systematically gathers data and applies that data to the training process. The method has several advantages, including the enhancement of firm performance, the enhancement of personnel performance, which in turn increases customer and client pleasure, and the enhancement of training. Employee performance increases after receiving quality training, according to studies. Thus, there is a link between a company's success and the efforts of its employees. It is a snowball effect; an employee's productivity and happiness at work rise directly to their level of expertise (Akdere & Egan, 2020). If workers believe they have the necessary skills, they will be more invested in the company's success. In other words, when workers are invested in their work, they are more inclined to go above and beyond.

Evaluating one's training program might discover its strengths and areas for development. It shows how and when training is most beneficial for employees and what kinds of instruction provide the best results (Borriello & Jäger, 2021). As a result, it may learn how to serve as a feedback loop to improve the quality of training materials and the results they provide for businesses. Another major factor in whether or not an employee stays with an organization is the availability of learning opportunities, which may be improved with the help of assessment training (Knight et al., 2019). Equally important, evaluation training has a direct bearing on the enthusiasm of the workforce.

References

Akdere, M., & Egan, T. (2020). Transformational leadership and human resource development: Linking employee learning, job satisfaction, and organizational performance. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 31(4), 393-421.

Borriello, A., & Jäger, A. (2021). The antinomies of Ernesto Laclau: a reassessment. Journal of Political Ideologies, 26(3), 298-316.

Knight, C., Patterson, M., & Dawson, J. (2019). Work engagement interventions can be effective: a systematic review. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 28(3), 348-372.

Kryściński, W., Keskar, N. S., McCann, B., Xiong, C., & Socher, R. (2019). Neural text summarization: A critical evaluation. arX

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