Development Planning Process
Development Approaches
Employee vs Employer Responsibilities
Assessment Tools & Personality Use
Training Design Review
100

The first step in the development planning process.

What is self-assessment?

100

Learning through workshops, college classes, and certification programs is what type of development?

What is formal education?

100

Who is responsible for identifying their interests, values, and career goals?

Who are employees?

100

This popular personality tool groups people into 16 different types.

What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?

100

The first step of the training design process is conducting this.

What is a needs assessment?

200

This step is when the manager gives honest feedback about the employee’s strengths, weaknesses, and potential.

What is the reality check?

200

MBTI, DISC, and Enneagram are examples of this development method.

What is assessment?

200

Who ensures development opportunities exist and provides access to them?

Who is the employer?

200

This type of feedback includes input from managers, peers, subordinates, and customers.

What is 360-degree feedback?

200

This term describes how well trainees can apply what they learned on the job.

What is transfer of training?

300

Setting short and long-term career objectives happens in this step.

What is goal setting?

300

Stretch assignments, job rotations, and promotions fall under which development approach?

What is job experience?

300

This party is responsible for seeking performance feedback regularly.

Who are employees?

300

Personality assessments are used to identify these two major things that help guide development.

What are strengths and weaknesses?

300

Evaluating training effectiveness immediately after a program assesses this type of outcome.

What are reaction outcomes?

400

This document outlines the specific steps an employee will take to reach their development goals.

What is an action plan?

400

Learning from someone with more experience, either formally or informally, is known as what?

What is mentoring?

400

Providing resources such as training programs, mentors, and job rotation opportunities is whose responsibility?

Who is the employer

400

This assessment method uses past behavior as an indicator to predict future job performance.

What is behavior-based assessment?

400

This method of evaluation includes measuring before and after training and comparing to a control group.

What is pretest-posttest with comparison group?

500

Name all four steps of the development planning process in order.

What are self-assessment, reality check, goal setting, and action planning?

500

Coaching differs from mentoring because it focuses more on this type of improvement.

What is performance or skill improvement?

500

This responsibility is shared by both the employee and employer throughout the development cycle.

What is career planning or professional growth?

500

Assessments support which step of the development planning process the most?

What is self-assessment?

500

Name the major components of the training design process.

What are needs assessment, ensuring readiness, creating a learning environment, choosing methods, transfer, and evaluation?