Designing Programs of Training

Designing an Effective Training Program

The amount of emphasis put on training demonstrates how a company 's development of its human resources are considered significant (Noe Colquitt , 2002 . However , as Green (2005 ) mentioned , in real-life situations a number of companies tend to cut down on training especially during periods of economic challenges such as recessions . As a means to respond to these challenges and at the same time , maintain the competitiveness of the firm , the design of an effective training programme can be considered as a solution . The effectiveness of a

training program therefore does not only address the training needs of the firm but the resources utilized in the initiative is well-invested . An effective training program has the following properties (Erickson 2005 Noe Colquitt , 2002 : the presence of well established goals and objectives (what is the training for and what can be gained from it the beneficiaries include the organization and the individuals and the program works within the means of the organization . To demonstrate , an example of a development of a training program is presented in the following

A firm presently faces problems in terms of low profits an identified objective , at this point , is to increase the sales . This firm does not have enough resources to implement a full-blown program , but a solution is identified through a sales technique its sales department can implement

In this context , an effective training program does not immediately jump to conclusions that training is the answer in fact , the initial analyses...