This vignette describes the limits of adventure training, highlighting the experience of a team of trainees whose doubts about their leader were reinforced when he, during a training exercise, became terrified and starting crying. Question: Imagine that you are an HR manager in a company where an executive wants to sign the sales team up for adventure learning. What steps would you take to increase the likelihood that the effort will benefit the organization?

This vignette describes the limits of adventure training, highlighting the experience of a team of trainees whose doubts about their leader were reinforced when he, during a training exercise, became terrified and starting crying. Question: Imagine that you are an HR manager in a company where an executive wants to sign the sales team up for adventure learning. What steps would you take to increase the likelihood that the effort will benefit the organization?

Management, Loose-Leaf Version

13th Edition

ISBN:9781305969308

Author:Richard L. Daft

Publisher:Richard L. Daft

Chapter12: Managing Human Talent

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