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A course requires a participant to go on a virtual search to find a video from the company president and an electronic document outlining specific roles and responsibilities. This is an example of which of the following?
When establishing a talent development (TD) department, how would the TD director best align the department's role to achieve the business strategy?
An engineering company utilizes two learning management systems (LMSs): one manages technical training, and the other manages professional development (or non-technical training) for all of the company's engineers. Over time, changes in reporting requirements have caused the use of two different systems to be difficult and time-consuming. It has been decided that a new LMS is to be selected, with a goal of improving the time constraints of using training information from both systems. A talent development (TD) professional is put in charge of facilitating the selection and implementation of the new LMS.
What should the TD professional do to facilitate the selection process?
A talent development (TD) professional has been asked to evaluate the capability of an organization's employees to move into positions of greater responsibility when required. The deliverable will be a report on the skill sets for succession in the organization. What would be the most effective approach for the TD professional to take?
Which technique for writing social media content best encourages readers to engage, extend the conversation, and take action?
A talent development (TD) professional has been asked to implement a knowledge management strategy. Which is the best first step for the TD professional to take?
A talent development team is developing advanced emergency medical technician training for seasoned firefighters. Why are hands-on activities so crucial to this type of training?
A talent development (TD) professional is asked to offer training to entry-level employees on a new online software that will change many processes in their work. Which is the best way for the TD professional to prepare a learner-centered course?
A TD professional at an online retail company is approached by one of the company's cloud services managers, who is concerned about the cloud services team's recent work performance. The manager states that the team members repeated the same mistakes from past teams. The TD professional performs a needs analysis and determines that the team members did not leverage information, best practices, and historical data recorded by past teams in the company's knowledge management system (KMS).
What should the TD professional do?
A pharmaceutical company wants to overhaul its compliance training. Some of the executives think that generic training from an external vendor would be cheaper. The talent development (TD) manager knows that customized training built internally would better meet the need. What would best help the TD manager make the case to build the training internally?
Which metric would show the most alignment with senior management and organizational goals?
A talent development (TD) professional has been hired as a consultant for a 20-person manufacturing company. The TD professional has not worked in this industry before. Several employees have complained to the human resources (HR) department that some supervisors have been disrespectful toward them when giving feedback. The HR manager decides that company-wide training on appropriate feedback is needed. The TD professional is assigned to conduct a needs analysis and to report the results to the HR manager in two days.
As a result of the needs analysis, the TD professional finds that some supervisors do not know how to give appropriate feedback and some employees do not respond well to feedback. The HR manager authorizes the TD professional to conduct a one-time, three-hour, instructor-led training program for all employees on giving and receiving effective feedback.
The TD professional decides to incorporate role-play in the training and plans to use the HR manager as the subject matter expert (SME) to create the necessary role-play scenarios. The training program is due in one month. The HR manager is not available in that time frame but notes that a newly hired HR intern is available and suggests that this intern act as an SME in creating the scenarios. Management has decided that the training cannot be postponed.
What should the TD professional do?
Which is the most effective way to communicate the value of a leadership program to a stakeholder who has a driver listening style?
A hacker was successful in accessing a financial services company's database of customer information after an employee clicked on a phishing email link. The company's chief executive officer (CEO) created a project team to address the security breach. As a member of the project team, a talent development (TD) professional is asked to evaluate the current security training for effectiveness. Since this is an urgent issue, the project team has been given 30 days to present recommendations.
The data obtained indicates that the current training focuses on defining phishing and does not provide examples or information on how to recognize it and what actions to take.
What should the TD professional do?
Two manufacturing companies in different cities—Company A and Company B—have recently undergone a merger but will continue operating separately for the immediate future. Company B did not have a talent development (TD) department, so the TD professional who reported to the chief executive officer (CEO) of Company A before the merger will now report to the CEOs of both companies. The TD professional is asked by the CEO of Company A to put together a team-building program to get the employees from both companies to work well together.
The TD professional has a meeting with the CEO of Company B, who believes the training should be postponed for at least six months so the two groups of employees can operate autonomously as if the merger had not happened.
What should the TD professional do?
An external coach is contracted by a company to work with three of its executive vice presidents (EVPs). During the scheduled sessions, two of the EVPs show up late and request that their coaching sessions be extended to make up for the missed time. Which is the most ethical and appropriate action for the coach to take?
An organization has just finalized its strategic planning process and established four business goals for the next period. The talent development (TD) professional is meeting with the chief executive officer to discuss how the learning function can best support the achievement of these goals. Which meeting objective will best allow the TD professional to align the learning goals with these business goals?
A talent development (TD) professional facilitates a three-week training course for all of a company's new hires. Company onboarding guidelines state that new hires must pass the course final exam with a score of 80% or higher in order to continue in the job, but the guidelines also provide for some discretion on the part of the hiring manager.
Participant A fails the final exam with a score of 78%. Participant A was frequently late to training, did not readily participate, and fell asleep twice during the course.
Participant B fails the final exam with a score of 60%. Participant B arrived early every day during training to request additional help, actively participated in group activities, took copious notes, and got along with everyone in the course.
What should the TD professional do?
Over the past six months, 40% of new hires have failed the final exam. The human resources manager questions why the failure rate is so high and asks the TD professional to assess the training course.
A talent development (TD) professional has been contracted to design a training program on cross-cultural communications. The organization's goal is to foster a more inclusive workplace environment. Which action would best help the TD professional assess the organizational environment to identify specific performance objectives?
Which level of Kirkpatrick's model should a talent development professional use to measure the impact of learning during and after a training course?
As part of an evaluation, a training manager observes role-plays among participants. Which is the highest level of evaluation that can be achieved through this method?
A manager is trying to identify the root cause of a departmental problem by interviewing employees. In which situation is the manager employing the Socratic method of questioning?
A talent development (TD) professional has recently joined an organization and needs to develop the organization's learning strategy. The TD professional has scheduled one-on-one interviews with the various senior leaders. Which question would be most important for the TD professional to include in the interview protocol?
Which action should a talent development professional take when using the accelerated learning process?
Which is the most effective way for a facilitator to incorporate adult learners' previous experience?
A talent development professional is providing coaching to an individual. Which action is most likely to improve success for the coaching action plan?
What is the most important reason for determining an anticipated headcount of training team employees before presenting a training budget?
A talent development (TD) professional works at a small Internet-based company. The TD professional is tasked with training a group of customer service representatives to process refunds in a new software application.
The TD professional is creating the training plan for the new software and wants to develop the learners' troubleshooting skills by incorporating unexpected complexities that staff might encounter.
The training plan is created and approved, and the TD professional develops the training materials.
The TD professional starts the training session with a short lecture, but the learners are being fairly quiet. The TD professional is worried that learners are not understanding the material but are too afraid to ask questions.
What should the TD professional do to encourage learners to ask questions?
A talent development (TD) professional has been tasked with training a group of managers on how to be better coaches. The managers have been in their roles for one to three years, have some prior knowledge, are self-motivated to learn, and lack guidance. What is the most effective approach for the TD professional to take?
What is the best way a talent development professional can create a strong business case for continuing an existing training program?
In the development of a knowledge management system (KMS), which is the best action for a talent development professional to take in order to avoid the pitfall of employees hoarding knowledge or being unwilling to share it?
A talent development (TD) professional is one of several people from different departments that are assigned to a project. The purpose is to design a solution to an issue that occurs often among new hires. What kind of project will the TD professional be participating in?
A talent development professional and an external training vendor have agreed to a percentage of the overall cost as profit. What is this called?
Which is a direct result of providing good navigation for participants in an e-learning environment?
A TD professional at an online retail company is approached by one of the company's cloud services managers, who is concerned about the cloud services team's recent work performance. The manager states that the team members repeated the same mistakes from past teams. The TD professional performs a needs analysis and determines that the team members did not leverage information, best practices, and historical data recorded by past teams in the company's knowledge management system (KMS).
The TD professional determines that the team members are not motivated to use the KMS because they find it too time-consuming to access useful information.
The TD professional implements strategies to engage and motivate the cloud services team members in using the KMS. The TD professional now wants to enlist the cloud services managers to ensure continued use of the KMS by the team members.
What should the TD professional do?
Which step in a change management process is most important for instituting sustainable change?
A talent development (TD) professional has been asked to create a training program. The focus of the training is to motivate employees to be leaders in their regions and help the organization work toward its strategic priorities. The TD professional knows that the learners will vary in their ability to learn and their prior knowledge, but they are motivated. What is the best action for the TD professional to take to ensure successful learning transfer?
Which steps are considered best practice when making a business case for a talent development program?
TESTED 30 Nov 2025