As the director of learning and development, you have been tasked with creating a career development program for the senior sales team of your organization. You currently support five individuals on the senior sales team. Each team member has aspirations of becoming either a senior sales manager, sales director, or vice president of sales. None of the team members have any experience in leading a team, but they show some potential for management. Choose one of the roles above (i.e., senior sales manager, sales director, or vice president of sales), and create a PowerPoint presentation outlining a career development program for the employee. In your PowerPoint, please include the elements below.

• Describe skills needed to be successful in the desired role.
• Discuss three to four training and developmental interventions needed to gain the skills to be successful in the desired role, and provide a timeframe of completion for each intervention. For example, a job rotation program should be completed in 60 to 90 days, and an apprenticeship should be completed in 2 years.
• Explain the outcomes of each developmental intervention. For example, “Through this job rotation exercise, you will be able to effectively manage a virtual team.”

Your presentation must be at least 10 slides in length, not counting the title and reference slides. You are required to use at least one outside source and to utilize the notes section within PowerPoint. Within the notes section, include additional explanations for each slide. As you create your presentation, keep in mind that you are presenting for executives at your organization. All sources used, including the required unit resources, must be cited and referenced ac

Word Limit: 2,500 words (not including reference list or in text citations or tables or graphs- within 5% below or above).

Brief: An overview of the role of Human Resources in organisations today.

Instructions:

For a given business organisation, describe the core functions of Human Resources. Your answer should identify how each of these roles are applied within the organisation.  Your answer should also include application and evaluation of HR strategies and objectives within the organisation.  Theory alone is insufficient you must provide examples. For a different business organisation discuss the motivational techniques adopted to retain their employees. Your answer must consider the reason why employee motivation is important within the organisation. Theory alone is insufficient you must apply examples.

Aims: To introduce the topic of Human Resource practices and workplace motivational techniques adopted by two different organisations.

Objectives:  Learning Outcomes to be assessed and marking criteria.

Learning Outcomes

·         Discussion of  some of  the people management issues within  organisations.

·         Assess the core functions of Human Resource management and HR strategies and objectives that are adopted

·         Examine the techniques adopted by organisations to motivate their employees

·         Applying relevant theoretical concepts

·         Conducting research of two different organisations.

Professional Development Program Proposal

Overview

In your first assignment, you conducted a research analysis of the company and proposed strategic solutions to the CEO. As you continue your consulting role, the next task is to deliver a professional development program to the CEO of your chosen organization.

It is important that your program’s proposal be based on your research of emotional intelligence (EI) and specifically details how a new incentive program, based on an EI management approach, will:

• Foster teamwork.
• Strengthen interpersonal relationships.
• Enhance communication.
• Increase overall performance.
• Benefit not only managers but the bottom-line.

Instructions

Write a 5 page, double-spaced proposal that includes the following components:

1. EI and Motivation:
   • Which of the EI building blocks would impact management’s ability to enhance employee performance and job satisfaction?
   • Based on your research on motivational theory, describe which motivational theory you would utilize to influence the members of the organization and aid in helping to resolve the issue. Provide examples to support your solution.
2. EI and Social Skills and Decision Making:
   • Explain how the core concepts of emotional intelligence would enhance the decision-making efficacy of the management team.
3. Effective Teams:
   • Describe the core attributes of an effective team and the strategies you would implement to develop team dynamics that will benefit the organization.
4. Reward Systems:
   • Create an effective reward system for this organization based on how you want to resolve the organizational issue. Determine the strategies you would incorporate to motivate employees and influence behavior.

Research and define the term futuring. Answer the following questions:

• Why is futuring important?
• Who is typically responsible for this role within the organization?

Identify at least 4 different methodologies used for predictions. Additionally, complete the following: Based on your experience and research, which of the methodologies is more effective, accurate, and reliable?  Include a discussion on why you came to this conclusion.

After you find a definition for futuring that you are OK with, share it in this discussion board. Then discuss why you feel futuring is important to an organization and particularly to your organization. Who is responsible (or should be) for this role in organizations in general, and in your organization specifically?