University of San Diego Training and Development Discussion

For this week’s post, please respond to one of the following prompts:

1. Describe how organizations can go about assessing the need for training. How do they determine whether training is the solution to their problem? And assuming they do determine that training is needed, how do they go about determine whether the employees in question are ready for the training?

2. Describe the similarities and differences between training and development. How is it that the organization’s hiring processes can have an impact upon training and development needs?