People and Talents

                                   A reflection exercise based on a case study. How did your interpretation of the message change from one modality to the next? The tone in the email sounded rude while reading in my mind, and I found myself making unpleasant comments to myself, such as “I am tired and exhausted” and “Can't this wait till tomorrow?”. And there was no feedback on my comments. Also, the text formatting and paragraphing were just so boring to read, and the purpose of the email was embedded somewhere in the text lines.  I felt the tone was calmer in the audio, and the request sounded like I could put in some effort to get over the data needed. This also allowed me to get to this at a time when I was not busy. While in the face-to-face communication, my request got my full attention as I looked at the person speaking. I believe I could...

Recently, I was involved in planning an event for a friend. The event was agreed to be implemented almost six months before the event. There were many stakeholders involved in getting a date for the event. The date was eventually chosen based on her elder brother’s availability. With the date set, many event components had to be taken care of. Getting a space, the food menu, who would be in charge of buying, cooking, and serving the food, logistics for the chairs and tables, decoration team, graphics team, and tech teams to handle microphones, speakers, and switch on generators should electricity be an issue. My area has many local dishes, and the goal was to capture as much of the variety of local dishes as possible. Decisions around setting up the hall, where guests would sit, where the food tables would be mounted, and even the entire day’s program was still to be decided upon, as well as wrap-up and cleaning. Initially, a budget was set for the event, and family members were tasked...

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  Learning Management System (LMS). A learning management system (LMS) refers to a technology used to automate the administration, development, and delivery of training programs. LMSs can provide employees, managers, and trainers with the systems support to manage, deliver, and track learning activities. Some features of LMS include tracking and reporting learners’ progress, authoring skills for consistent content creation, discussion boards for interaction and trainer feedback, being able to assess learners, providing a great deal of personalization, and supporting professional development. LMS is a great tool for integrating employee training with all aspects of the human resource function (e.g., performance evaluation, human resource planning) to determine training cost and impact on business goals. It provides a central system for managing all employee's learning activities, tracking compliance, and measuring individual and team performance.   The long-term impl...

Conducting a training needs assessment with a focus on the following:  1) What stakeholders would you want to make sure to get buy-in from? Americares is a global health nonprofit organization that aims to save lives and improve people's health in vulnerable communities. Its principal activities are to respond to emergency situations caused by natural disasters, war, and health epidemics. The emergency response may lead to a long-term recovery program that may lead to the creation of an organizational country presence. To conduct an organizational country-level training program improving specific health capacities within a community, stakeholders involved would be the top-level leadership team, the country directors, key employees occupying the roles in which the training would be implemented for or by, employees managers, finance headquarters team, technical unit experts or SMEs, and other headquarter roles that directly work with the country offices. It will be beneficial to have...

  Hello, Ever wondered about the place of training within your team?      Growth in market share and an increased bottom line are at the core of organizational goals, and certainly, ABC Digital is not an exception.     Equipping your employees through training to develop their cultural competencies and grasp various political and socio-economic situations in potential global markets positions your organization on the path to incredible and tremendous success when aiming for an effective global presence.     Again, in an age where technology and the use of artificial intelligence are major work tools for efficiency, you bet these have become one of the salient drivers of gaining competitive advantage. Therefore, investing and motivating your employees while retaining them through mandated training in using such technologies will not only get your team to thrive in the moment but will certainly be sustainable in the future.     It is n...

End of Course Reflection   Distance learning has shown that learning is possible in an online environment where learners and teachers are physically separated from each other and connected by technological tools. According to Simonson et al. (2019), distance learning is “institution-based, formal education where the learning group is separated, and where interactive telecommunications systems are used to connect learners, resources, and instructors.” Different names have been attributed to distance learning, from online learning, virtual learning, and e-learning, all incorporating the key notion of learning from a distance ( Sangrà et al., 2012). Distance learning can be carried out synchronously –occurring at different places at the same time, asynchronously –occurring at different places at different times, or in a blended format—online activities occur at certain times during a conventional face-to-face course (Simonson et al., 2019). Constant technological advancement has r...