Select a small business with which you are familiar Imagine

Select a small business with which you are familiar. Imagine that you have been called into that business to provide a consultation on training. Create a comprehensive training proposal for the business.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Analyze key elements of training and development geared toward improving the performance of the specific small business for which you are consulting.

2. Predict three to five (3-5) potential challenges that the managers or owners of the business could face in addressing organizational performance.

3. Justify the effects of detecting organizational gaps in small business, providing examples to explain the rationale.

4. Propose a competitive training strategy that will improve the position of the business in the market. The strategy should include, at a minimum, an agenda of training activities, rationale for instructional strategies used, and the return on investment (ROI) that will be gained from the strategy you have developed.

5. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources

Solution

In this question I am going to discuss about BAKERY BUSINESS. I am very much familiar with this business, so I am going to provide some consultation for training. In the following paragraphs, detailed discussion about that all is given. So lets get started with the discussion:-

Para 1: most of the people think that bakery is just a business of wheat and its products but that is not true. First of all it should be clear in mind what you want to achieve and in what field you want to excel.
You need to find out the customers you are going to serve and what is the location and need of that customers. And finf out why they are going to come to your shop, reason may be many like location, quality, price and many more.
After getting these points clear, a clear strategy and training programme for vendor will be formed.

Para 2 : Here are some of the potential challenges faced by manager in running bakery business
* competing quality of product : the main challange for the any vendor is manitaing the quality of the product to run long. Because comprising the quality can not be bearable in this challenging world.
* remain in trend : in order to stay long in the market, one should get update with the trend of the market. If not followed then the opportunities can be availed by others.
* online trading : todays world is growing so fast just because of information technology. The vendor who is not following the latest trends of trading is left behind. Hence it is also a big challenge for them

Para 3 : effects of organisational gap of small scale business is some times difficult to manage. Some of the organisational gap are like communication problems in the organisation. They exactly don\'t know to whom they are answerable or not? And what type of hiring should be adopted. And these effects will be discussed in detail with the full team and then further steps will be taken.

Para 4 : competitive training strategies that will improve the business and its sales are as under:
* the main agenda of the training should be to get the personnel trained in their field. So that there should be no problem in working.
* proper instructions and rules are designed in order to help them in working further flawlessly. And and every type of confusion should be eliminated.
* Return on investment analysis should be done on regular basis so that you can keep you eye on the goals along with your momentary goals.

In all the above paragraphs, a complete discussion about my familiar bakery business. I hope it will be helpful for you.