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An employee who is an effective communicator knows how to handle his/her peers and his/her superiors. Coaching by peers or managers enables an employee to build a specific skill or even change a pattern of behavior. It does also help an employee to adapt to a new process or practice. Coaching improves an employee's working relationship or performance and productivity. It can make them overcome problems that come their way. Coaching can enhance performance of an employee especially when they are coached to perform better. This helps in enhancement of organizational effectiveness (Noe, 2005).
Coaches have to motivate employees, help them develop their skills, and provide reinforcement and feedback. The reason behind managers' reluctance to coach their employees is that the employees may not be so open to them. Some employees may find it difficult honestly answering questions that relate to their career aspirations, and job satisfaction. Some managers fear that interacting so closely with the employees will make the respect the employees have for them vanish.
Many organizations have developed their own universities. What are the advantages and disadvantages in doing this?
Work places have since changed to places where people both learn and work. Companies have become places where workforce is educated. Some have even opened their own universities. This has helped a great deal because such universities provide on-going work related training to all levels of employees. Such institutions provide priceless information and resources to the learners....
They also provide on-going work related training to employees who enroll with them (Dutkowsky, 2012).
What training methods are effective in training executives? Why are they effective?
Companies can liaise with learning institutions like universities to provide education needs of the company executives. The universities can come up with short, custom courses that are tailored to the needs of the executives. Companies can also allow their executives to make use of long distance learning opportunities that universities provide. Company executives can also supplement formal courses from consultants or university faculty with other types of training and development activities. These training methods enable company executives to enhance their strategic thinking capabilities and leadership abilities. The executives' ability to compete globally is also enhanced. All these help in improving customer experience. Apart from the reasons given above, the training methods also make executives to develop functional expertise and business excellence (Noe, 2005).
References
Noe, R.A. (2006). Employee training and development (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
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Dutkowsky, S. (2012). Trends in Training and Development - the New Economy, Training in
U.S. Companies, Who Does the Training in Corporations? Retrieved from http://careers.stateuniversity.com/pages/852/Trends-in-Training-Development.html
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