Performance management training

    3.1. Would it be appropriate to use e-learning to deliver the performance management training? Explain your answer. 3.2. What are the potential barriers to a successful training session? Outline how you might overcome them. 3.3. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the training sessions being led by an external consultant. 3.4. How would you deal with a participant with a negative attitude toward the training? 3.5. In the information provided in the case study, do you see any evidence that the trainer considered Dessler’s “Five-Step Training and Development Process” in the manager’s training program? Explain your answer. Required reading. See page 3. 3.6. Would you require any information about your participants before the training session? 3.7. What skills do you think are important for the trainer to have? 3.8. Do you think it is possible for learners to obtain the necessary information using a more informal or experiential learning technique? 3.9. How can the trainer ensure skills transfer so employees apply the training to the workplace? 3.10. How can the trainer motivate the participants to learn? 3.11. How would you evaluate the success of the training program (not including the end-of-session feedback forms)? 3.12. How would you rate Southwood’s existing evaluation form? 3.13. Why is it important for appraisees to be trained in using the new performance management system?