Reference no: EM132115490

Professional Development Workshop

You will likely have at some point in your professional career a management or supervisory position. One key to your success will be your ability to manage the learning process and update the skills and competencies of your employees to achieve desired performance standards. Their performance will greatly reflect upon you as their supervisor. Even if you recruit only the most competent employees, their competence will soon turn into incompetence unless you are able to help them develop and update their skills. This assignment is designed to help you learn to use training as a vital part of your work as a manager or supervisor.

To help you identify your topics you will need to conduct a needs analysis. Determine a need that employees have and design a workshop to meet this need. It is your responsibility to conduct a needs analysis, market your workshop, schedule a room, take care of logistics, and design and deliver a workshop.

One easy way to do this is to think about your current place of employment or one that you are familiar with or have connections with. Could it benefit from some training?. You should be able to identify topics for your workshop from the results of the needs analysis.

At that time you will hand in a description of your topics, and a list of the one or two things that students will be able to do/know differently as a result of each of your workshops.  

Each workshop should result in a) participants' increased awareness and understanding of the topic, and b) their development and practice of particular behavioral skills related to the topic. In other words, in addition to obtaining an increased understanding, students should be able to leave your workshop being able to do something new, not just know something new.