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An operations director for a retail call center asks a talent development (TD) manager to analyze the recent rise in incorrect orders, which are up 40% in the past month.

Which action(s) should the TD manager take to determine the root cause(s)?

A.

Conduct employee focus groups.

B.

Create a plan for retraining employees.

C.

Analyze recent staffing.

D.

Analyze data regarding recent orders.

E.

Request a report on recent online retail trends.

F.

Identify and interview employees who are making mistakes.

G.

Review recent organizational changes.

When establishing a talent development (TD) department, how would the TD director best align the department ' s role to achieve the business strategy?

A.

Identify a learning management system that specifically tracks the number of learning solutions that are created for the business units

B.

Create a mission statement that explicitly states the department ' s endeavor to provide learning solutions that produce meaningful business results

C.

Develop a strategic workflow that includes daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly tasks that cover all training and development disciplines

D.

Implement a strategy to recruit and hire a staff of TD professionals skilled in instructional design, e-learning software, facilitation, and evaluation

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?

A.

Recommend that the current training be updated to include identifying phishing attempts.

B.

Recommend that the compliance department create new security training.

C.

Recommend that all employees be required to retake the current security training.

D.

Present the recommendations directly to the CEO for a decision.

E.

Present training alternatives to the project team to gather feedback.

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?

A.

Provide all managers with a brief guide on follow-up techniques to use with their teams.

B.

Create opportunities for managers to share best practices and brainstorm solutions to challenges.

C.

Recommend that manager bonuses be tied to usage statistics.

D.

Suggest that the human resources team add a line to manager job descriptions stating their responsibility for creating a culture of knowledge sharing.

E.

Encourage managers to recognize and reward team members who increase their KMS usage appropriately.

F.

Request that managers be provided with regular reports on KMS usage by their team members.

G.

Have managers sign a contract to ensure they will support the KMS effort to the fullest extent.

Which process steps should be included in a chart displaying the results of an after-action review?

A.

Barriers, metrics, feedback, rewards

B.

People, processes, proficiencies, competencies

C.

Problems, solutions, actions, outcomes

D.

Schedules, resources, constraints, results

Which question is most critical for a talent development professional to answer before implementing an employee engagement survey?

A.

Who should be included in the survey?

B.

What will be learned from the feedback?

C.

What is the purpose of the survey?

D.

How will the feedback be collected?

In project management, which is a best practice prior to creating a communication plan?

A.

Select the primary communication method

B.

Analyze the needs of the stakeholders

C.

Manage the expectations of the stakeholders

D.

Identify the primary communicator

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?

A.

Read the results of exit surveys and interviews

B.

Facilitate focus groups with employees across all levels

C.

Discuss performance gaps with external clients and senior leadership

D.

Evaluate performance reviews to assess ratings and written narratives

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.

Step 2

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 to develop this solution?

Step 3

The project team decides that test phishing emails should be created to train employees about phishing and to collect more data on the issue.

A.

Contract with a vendor for phishing emails.

B.

Develop follow-up training for employees who click on the phishing emails.

C.

Determine skills needed for the email design team.

D.

Perform a needs analysis.

E.

Establish learning objectives.

Which is an example of original work that can be copyrighted?

A.

A video recording on appreciative inquiry

B.

A motto for a change management initiative

C.

A title of a book of machine learning case studies

D.

A domain name for a website on executive coaching