Onboarding, Training, and Developing Employees

The decision has been made to continue to fund an onboarding process and the discussion now turns to what method of onboarding to use. Based on your research, you recommend:

A structured program that incorporates mentoring

One of the benefits of BLANK is that it provides a safe environment for employees to explore complex issues, build their confidence, and practice effective decision making.

Case Studies

You have volunteered to serve as an informal career coach for first year employees. What one piece of advice do you think would be of most value to an employee in the early stages of his or her career?

Consider yourself the CEO of your career and focus on building transferable skills on an ongoing basis

During the onboarding process, new employees are taught the company's corporate culture. Which of the following best describes the benefit associated with this part of the onboarding process?

Employees are better able to make decisions aligned with accepted company practices.

You have been charged with assessing the effectiveness of a recent series of training initiatives. You should start your analysis by:

Establishing the desired results or impact on the organization.

A remote employee has asked you to recommend a development option that accommodates his remote work location and elder care responsibilities. You recommend that he:

Explore online training and development opportunities

Angelo has been hired as the Human Resources Manager for a tech start-up company. When reviewing the company's existing hiring process, Angelo notices there is no formal onboarding process in place. When he asks why there is no onboarding process he is told that only 25% of companies utilize a formal onboarding process and therefore they did not feel the need to implement one. How should Angelo respond to this information?

He should explain onboarding benefits including reduced turnover and higher job satisfaction and push to implement a formal onboarding process.

Although there are a broad range of training methods, the most effective methods:

Include a variety of instructional methods and further student understanding of why the learning is useful

A year ago Jeannie started working for an insurance company. She has decided she really enjoys the industry and hopes to make a career out of it. She has partnered with multiple individuals at work to elicit feedback and help her plan her career but at the end of the day BLANK is responsible for managing her career.

Jeannie

On training method, The Learning Pyramid or "cone of learning" was founded based on which of the following ideas?

Learners should see, hear, experience, try, and teach to others

Marija is using the Kirkpatrick Model to evaluate the success of their newly implemented training program. She is currently trying to determine if their new employees are utilizing their newfound knowledge. Which level in the model is she currently evaluating?

Level 3: Behavior

Your (human resource) manager is implementing a hybrid training and participative management initiative that requires employees to research and either justify or argue for the elimination of budget line items. You've been assigned the onboarding budget line item. Which of the following positions best reflects the data on onboarding?

Onboarding is associated with higher levels of employee job satisfaction, lower turnover and better performance (I vote continued funding).

During a company-wide expense audit, departments are being asked to justify their spending allocations. Which of the following is the best way for Human Resources to explain the benefits of the onboarding process?

Proper onboarding reduces turnover, which reduces hiring costs.

How does a formal onboarding process benefit a company?

Proper onboarding reduces turnover, which reduces hiring costs.

BLANK promote the development of analytical and communication skills as well as provide opportunities to work with company leadership.

Special project assignments

In an organizational context, the ADDIE Model is used to:

The ADDIE model is used to develop training programs.

Which of the following statements accurately describes a goal of employee development?

The cultivation of an employees core, through the development of soft skills.

Which of the following statements best describes employee training methods?

They are constantly transforming to meet the needs of the organization and employee alike.

When conducting training, which of the following should be a main objective?

To develop and enhance an employee's knowledge, skills, and abilities.

You're preparing a human resource staff briefing on how to conduct a needs analysis. Which of the following points should you include:

To identify training needs accurately, performance expectations must be established and performance measured relative to expectations.

One of your teammates, a new HR hire, observed that the terms training and development were sometimes used interchangeably and asked you for clarification. You explain that:

Training is designed to develop or enhance an employee's knowledge, skills, and abilities relative to their current position.

An online clothing retailer has recently decided to implement an onboarding process for new hires. Daphne, the Human Resources Manager, is trying to decide what onboarding method is the most effective. Which of the following best describes the most effective onboarding method?

a formal, structured program

High performing organizations are more likely to implement which of the following onboarding methods?

a mentorship program

Which of the following steps in The ADDIE Model defines the learning environment and establish instructional goals and objectives?

analysis

Which of the following is the least effective way for employees to participate in structured learning which enhances their industry knowledge/expertise, communication skills, critical thinking skills, and professional networking abilities?

case studies

Which of the following stages in The ADDIE Model defines specific learning objectives and instructional strategies?

design

Which of the following steps in The ADDIE Model should be utilized during every portion of the model?

evaluation

Miles has noticed that his newly hired employee, Rebecca, is really struggling to properly use their cloud-based computing system. Although she was hired from another company in the same field, her previous employer used a different computing system. Miles identifies there is a training gap and works to retrain Rebecca on the cloud-based computing system. This gap reflects a lack of which of the following?

hard skills

Which of the following describes the best way to implement the Kirkpatrick Model of analyzing and evaluating education and training programs?

in reverse order

Level 2 of the Kirkpatrick Model is:

learning

Which of the following is the most effective way for companies to invest in the individual success of each new employee during the onboarding process?

mentorship program

Terrance has adopted a lattice approach to his career management. With this approach, Terrance understands that continual BLANK needs to be a core competency in his career management.

professional reinvention

Outside of the initial new hire onboarding process, what is another method companies use to ensure onboarding effectiveness?

regularly scheduled employee check-in meetings

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to have a powerful impact on employee learning development in the near future. Which of the following is NOT one of AI's anticipated impacts?

remote hands-on training

Select the following option that is NOT expected to be one of Artificial Intelligence's powerful impacts on learning and development in the workplace.

remote internship opportunities

Training needs assessments can be utilized to identify training gaps. Which of the following is NOT one of the six steps in the training needs assessment process that can help to identify training gaps?

review interview question responses

Alejandro has been working with his newly hired employee Tina for a couple months and has realized that she really struggles with critical thinking. Using his observations of her lack of critical thinking skills, Alejandro identifies a training gap because Tina is missing which of the following?

soft skills