Hrm 531 Week 2 Case Study

The adjustments that I would make as a manager would be for Pam to try another way (without using more money), other than brochures such as: to call the list of senior executives and schedule meetings, power point presentations with statistics, so she could sell them the program and answer any questions about the senior executive leadership program; Pam should also send them emails with an option for comments to receive feedback from the senior executives. This will entice the senior executives to go to the training program.

Pam should continue the program and run it at a loss, because 10 senior executives are enrolled in the program; 10 people are better than nothing, at least with 10 people the company will get some of the money back. Also the program starts in four weeks, which gives an open door for more people to register. Pam should make sure that the senior executives have the best experience so that they approve the training for the mid-level managers. It would be a bad idea to cancel the program because all the money, time, and effort from …show more content…
The Gantt chart helped me realize that Pam knows how to manage time. But she didn’t plan to communicate with the senior executives. This is very important because she would have found that not many people were enrolling and noticed a problem beforehand. She would have had more time to make the proper modification to the plan and implement them for a much longer time.

3. Pam relied on the brochures to get senior executives to go to the leadership program and that was her downfall; the lack of communication. Along with the brochures she could have called, made meetings, and send emails to the senior executives; doing all of that could have made a difference in the number of enrollments. Pam also forgot to give them a chance for feedback of the leadership program. Her plan was for the senior executives to give feedback at the end of the training, something which she should have been doing since the