ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Project 3
Ongoing Training
and Preparation
Activity Sheet
People must work together. They must learn how to get along and perform their separate functions as a team. It is always much easier if the people in a workgroup like each other. This isn’t always the case, however. Sometimes personalities clash. But his must be overcome by adopting a professional attitude and by sticking to the job at hand without letting personalities get in the way.
Corporations often organize training session or seminars to help people learn how to work better in groups and overcome the differences they might have. These seminars focus on human interactions and relationships in the workplace. Also, seminars can be designed to improve the effectiveness of work groups and individual employees. The seminars help people improve their planning skills, keyboarding skills, dictations skills, electronic online resume writing, verbal communications, and a variety of other work-related skills.
In this activity, you will explore the Intranet and see what additional in-house training programs are available to employees.
· Seminar 1: How can this seminar help in your career?
· Seminar 2: How can this seminar help in your career?
· Seminar 3: How can this seminar help in your career?
So many training programs and seminars are available to businesses today that it is often difficult to decide which ones will provide the most helpful training or be worth the money required for employees to attend. And it isn’t just the cost of paying the instructor and buying the materials that go with the seminar. It is also the cost of having employees take time away from work to attend.
Review the seminar descriptions on the Intranet by revisiting the Employee Training and Evaluations link on the Regular Features page. Answer the following questions and justify attending one of these seminars. Record your answers of 25 to 50 words in a word processing document.
1. Which three seminars do you think are the most important in the development of your personal business skills? Rank the seminars in order of importance.
2. E-mail a memo to your instructor, describing your top seminar and justifying to your instructor why you need to participate in this training. Explain how what you learn will help you do your job better and why the corporation should allow you time away from your regular duties to attend the seminar. What is the win-win outcome or the benefit to both you and the corporation?
3. Choose a topic for an additional training seminar you would like your employer to offer its employees. Identify the type of seminar; then decide how much you think a training company would charge for this course. Email you suggestions to [email protected]. Include the following information in your email.
· Place “Seminar Idea” in the Subject Line.
· Name the seminar.
· Suggest the content of the seminar.
· Indicate what you think would be an appropriate cost for the seminar.
· Explain what you would hope to gain from the kind of training.
Proofread and correct all errors. Print a hard copy of the email for your portfolio.
1. Search the Web. Use your search tools to find classes and courses available online. Make a list of three or four online courses. List the source, URL, and cost of each of these online training options.
2. Visit your local bookstore. Make a list of magazines geared toward business people. Which magazines do you think would be the most valuable to small start-up businesses?
3. Search the ads in the magazines you identified in step 2 above. Do they list any conferences that business people can attend? Make a list of two or three conferences that pertain to business people. List the cost, location, and sponsoring organization for each.
Set up a word processing file for all information gathered. Print a hard copy for your portfolio and a copy to turn in to the instructor.