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HRM 6303 - Training and Development Book: None Due: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 12:00 noon Discussion Board Questions:   Part I -   Introduce yourself to your classmates with your name and any other information you would like to share with us

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HRM 6303 - Training and Development

Book: None

Due: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 12:00 noon

Discussion Board Questions:

 

Part I -   Introduce yourself to your classmates with your name and any other information you would like to share with us.  Please also share one positive experience that has happened to you within the past week. (I’ll take care of this part).

Part II – Why are training and development relevant for your organization or industry? What would be the impact if supervisors and employees were not trained?

Part III -  Describe a training and development session that you remember (can be good or bad). Why do you remember this session?  

Expectations for the Discussion Board:

Discussion Rubric – The rubric needs to be reviewed for the following points. If you miss any of these issues, points may be deducted:

Requirements: Show that you know and understand the topic. Use of research beyond the textbook is encouraged. Further posts must be substantive – initial posts should be at least 150 words and should have research support. Responses to peers should be at least 100 words. Just agreeing with your peer is not substantive enough to receive full credit.

Support: Learning involves going beyond the norm as such additional research is applauded and encouraged.

Timeliness: There are seven days in each week. You do not need to wait until Saturday to ‘get the conversation going.’ Further, I reserve the right to deduct points if your posts are on Tuesday night and do not allow for peer response.

Quantity: The minimum number is two – that is only the minimum. I strongly encourage participation as it enhances the learning experience. 

Only 1 post = Maximum is 60 points – post must be substantive

Post 1 day late = 10% reduction

Post 2 days late = 20% reduction

Post 3 days late = 30% reduction

Assignment Instructions: Respond to my classmate’s post below with 100 words. She’s replying to discussion questions 1, 2, & 3 above. Make sure you read the expectations above and follow the instructions.

Part I

Greetings from the heart of Texas. My name Tristan. I am the mother of 5 (Abbigail 23, Laurin 21, Wyatt 16, Matthew 14, Sarah 13) and YaYa to JR 2 and Lillian “Lilli” 1. I spent the first chapter of my professional career as a Critical Care Registered Nurse at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas. I loved being a nurse, but it is a career eats your soul. I was the charge nurse in 2009 when Nidal Hasan shot up Fort Hood, and that was when I decided I needed to retire from nursing. Now, I save lives in the Construction Industry as the Safety Director for Beckett Electrical in Austin, Texas. I have a B.S in Occupational Safety and Health, a B.S in Environmental Compliance, and halfway through a M.S. in Organizational Leadership. As I sit in my living room watching The University of Texas play very well against Alabama (a positive all in itself), my husband (Pop Pop) and I are playing with the grandkids. JR is playing football with our Cocker Spaniel Ollie, and we are bound and determined to get Miss Lilli to walk! Lilli is so excited, silly, and proud of herself. ? I am reminded as we sit in the floor and root her on, that it’s moments like this that bind humanity. We all start out as wobbly toddlers- learning to stand on our own two feet and walk. We all fall; we all need encouragement to get back up and try again; we all must learn to walk. I love being a YaYa… I totally recommend it!

Part II

I work in the construction industry, specifically, electrical trade. Electricity is the most hazardous source of energy in the universe! You can’t see it, taste it, touch it, or hear it; and by the time you realize it’s present--- you’re dead if you aren’t protected. In my industry, training is not just about education and knowledge, it is a matter of life or death. To become an electrician, my employees go to school. They start out as an apprentice. Over 4 years, they increase their knowledge and skills in order to qualify to take their Journeymen exam. Then, after 2 more years and 4,000 more hours, they can sit for their Master Electrician exam. But their training never ends, and they must obtain continuing education credits to keep their license. If supervisors and employees are not properly trained, the consequences can be catastrophic to both property and persons.

Part III

I love my job! I love the challenge of my job! I love that I get to be creative, fun, and innovative when I teach. Yes, I do a lot of training in a traditional classroom setting, but I also must present training to crews at 0600 in the morning, rain-snow-sleet-shine-darkness, in the middle of an active commercial construction site, with zero access to technology. I typically get less than 30 minutes and must provide engaging material that my employees will embrace and remember. The #1-way workers die in construction is falls. The #1-way workers fall in commercial construction is off a ladder. The #1 trade that falls off ladders is electricians.  One of my greatest challenges is to get my employees to always remember why they must work safely off a ladder. Do you know how hard it is to come up with new ways to get that message across? Last year I decided to SHOW my guys what could happen if they fell off a ladder. I went to my largest project with a 10-foot ladder, a tarp, and a small watermelon (about the size of my head). At the morning huddle we talked about ladder safety… again (yawn).  But they kept asking me what the watermelon was for. I stepped up on the ladder and stood on the 5^th rung. This meant my head was about 10 ½ feet off the ground. Then, had the foreman hand me the watermelon. I held the watermelon at my head, and then dropped it. When it hit the tarp… it smashed into a million chunks. I didn’t say a word. I told the guys to think about the watermelon.  About 2 weeks later I was walking the job with the foreman when an apprentice came running up to me. “Miss Tristan, Miss Tristan, I saved a watermelon!!!” Mike explained, yesterday, he went into a room to help Javier, who was working on a ladder up above ceiling grid making up a j-box. When Mike entered the room, Javier was standing halfway up on a ladder and had taken his hard hat off and set in the top of the ladder (an unsafe habit these guys do all the time). Mike stopped Javier, told him to out his hard hat back on and come down the ladder for a minute. Mike told Javier about the watermelon demonstration, and how it stuck with him. He didn’t want Javier to fall, and his head end up like the watermelon. Javier went back to work but didn’t take his hard hat off to work above the grid. Mike told me he has sat through tons of ladder trainings, but it wasn’t until he saw the watermelon guts everywhere on the tarp, that he got it! The foremen went on to tell me that the whole project was talking about watermelons, and how impressed he was that I was able to get the lesson across in such a creative way. As a safety professional, I was able to effectively train my guys that day. Total win for safety that day!!!