Financial Resources To Fund Employee Participation - Business Management

Internal Code: MAS5734

Business Management:

You are the newly-appointed Human Resource Advisor in a medium-sized business that employs approximately 150 mostly professional employees. Of these employees, 10 occupy managerial roles. The CEO of your company values learning and wants to increase the quantity and quality of learning at work. However, the company does not have the financial resources to fund employee participation in external formal education and training programs. The CEO has considered alternative approaches to fostering learning at work. After reading a Harvard Business Review Blog (see https://hbr.org/2014/07/you-cant- be-a- great- manager-if- you re-not- a- good-coach) the CEO decided that the organisation should strive to develop a ‘coaching culture’. Therefore, the CEO has asked you to write a fully developed proposal for a training course on ‘Coaching Skills for Managers’. The training course will be attended by the 10 managers. The CEO is aware that one-off training courses often do not result in behaviour change in the workplace and improved performance. Therefore, the CEO wants the coaching skills training course to be designed in a way that facilitates transfer of learning and the course must be complemented by the formation of an action learning set to help ensure that the capabilities acquired during the training course are applied and further developed in the workplace. The CEO has a strong academic background and is a firm believer in evidence-based practice. Your report must be tailored accordingly. Questions:  1) Provide brief background information about the organisation (actual or fictitious) and then explain why you initiated the proposal. Here you must link the proposal to the business need. 2) What has been going on in your organisation that has led to the need for the proposed developmental interventions? 3)  Who are members of the learning audience and what knowledge and skills do they need to learn? 4)  How were their learning needs identified