Activity 1

1. Identify four possible consequences of inadequate training or training that does not meet an organisation’s needs or requirements.
Answers might include but are not limited to:
Leads to people feeling ill-equipped to do their jobs, leading to stress
Reduced productivity
Decreased flexibility/ adaptability to workplace demands
Failure to enhance people’s skills
Can lead to a failure to meet statutory requirements relating to providing a safe and healthy working environment
Reduced motivation
Reduced satisfaction
Failure to offer career development
Increased employee turnover

2. Carry out your own TNA identifying the learning and development needs you could use to be able to do your current job more successfully. If you
They can affect the motivation and input of other employees. Thus employee attitude-willingness to participate, to be involved and to self-monitor and self-manage should comprise integral parts of all evaluations-for recruitment, performance evaluation and as regards selection for training opportunities.
Training truly will be wasted if employees who do not wish to learn, are not interested or for whatever reason do not want to be there, are coerced into attending training. Training will only be effective if the people who participate in it want to learn and to develop new skills and can see a purpose for learning-ie they have the right attitude.

Activity 4
1. Comment on this statement:
Effective managers do not wait for a defined time to gather feedback on their team members’ performance; they do it continually using formal and informal methods and relevant sources to build-up a complete picture of competence of the team as a whole and for each member of that team.
Generally, this statement is true. Feedback that is gathered continuously provides a more complete picture of competence than feedback gathered in snapshots, as it provides a holistic picture encompassing differing situations and contingencies. A good manager is able to combine formal feedback mechanisms, such as production results together with informal methods such as comments made by team members.
2. You are the senior