Development techniques
Graphic displays & measures
Potpourri
Learning
Potpourri
100
Ongoing meetings between a manager and an employee to discuss performance improvement, career goals, or professional development activities.
What is coaching?
100
Metrics and measures an organization uses to assess and evaluate its performance.
What is key performance indicators (KPIs)?
100
Extent to which an organization’s employees commit to something or someone in their organization, how hard they work, and how long they stay as a result of their commitment.
What is employee engagement?
100
Form of e-learning in which participants access information, often individually, at different times and in different places.
What is asynchronous learning?
100
Process of reintegrating employees back into the home country after an international assignment; includes adjustment to the new job and readjustment to the home culture and conditions
What is repatriation?
200
Involves individuals in emerging markets who coach international assignees or other representatives of global organizations on the cultural aspects of a specific local market.
What is reverse cultural coaching?
200
Graphic representation of the distribution of a single type of measurement; data is represented by a series of rectangles of varying heights.
What is histogram?
200
Discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
What is project management?
200
System that holds course content information and has the capability of tracking and managing employee course registrations, career development, and other employee development activities.
What is Learning management system (LMS)?
200
Type of Web conference in which a remote presenter speaks over a phone line (or via other methods) and visual information is presented to remote participants via their computers.
What is webinar?
300
Measures of key criteria that can be compared across organizations in order to assess effectiveness
What is benchmarks?
300
Expectations of management translated into behaviors and results that employees can deliver.
What is performance standards?
300
Web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semipublic profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
What is social networking sites?
300
Use of an organization’s electronic communication network to teach, train, and communicate.
What is distributed training?
400
Training provided to employees by managers and supervisors at the actual work site; utilizes demonstration and hands-on performance of job tasks to be accomplished.
What is On-the-job training (OJT)?
400
Data-driven quality improvement approach and methodology for eliminating defects
What is six sigma?
400
Internet or intranet site that provides access to an organization’s database of information and resources regarding learning and training.
What is learning portal?
400
Systematic and planned delivery of activities that provide the members of an organization with the skills necessary to meet current and future job demands.
What is human resource development (HRD) process?
400
Method of resolving cross-cultural differences that focuses on use of the three Rs: recognize, respect, and reconcile.
What is dilemma reconciliation?
500
Training programs designed for management and executive employees to assist them in developing the leadership skills required to deal with a variety of situations.
What is leadership development?
500
Diagram that maps out a list of factors that are thought to affect a problem or a desired outcome.
What is cause-and-effect (fish) diagram?
500
Principles, standards, and qualities an organization considers inherently worthwhile or desirable; describe what an organization considers to be important aspects of the way it does business.
What is values?
500
Delivery of formal and informal training and educational materials, processes, and programs via the use of electronic media.
What is E-learning?
500
Situations in which the employee is unable to advance further within the organization/industry.
What is plateaued careers?
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