CPTD Practice Questions
The Certified Professional in Talent Development
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A talent development (TD) professional is approached by a department manager for advice on how to improve an employee's performance on assigned monthly reports. How should the TD professional approach this situation?
A talent development (TD) professional has gained upper management's support to introduce individual development plans (IDPs) as a tool for employee development. Which first steps should the TD professional take to launch a successful IDP program?
A talent development professional is following the return on investment (ROI) methodology. Which data collection method will be most useful for collecting Level 4 data?
A new manager has a team comprised of four different generations of employees. Which action by the manager would be most likely to minimize intergenerational conflict within the team?
A talent development (TD) manager at a company decides to purchase a training course that will be customized by the vendor. A firm deadline must be met for course delivery. Which approach to contracting should the TD manager use?
Which is the best quality improvement tool for a team that is ready to design a flowchart for a new product release?
Which level of Kirkpatrick's model should a talent development professional use to measure the impact of learning during and after a training course?
A loan manager in a large bank accessed a direct report's personal bank account in the bank's system out of curiosity. This direct report became aware of the unauthorized account access and consulted the human resources (HR) department. The HR manager initiates an ethics investigation and also asks the talent development (TD) department to determine whether a training solution is needed. The TD professional assigned to this task has never before been involved in any compliance and ethics situation.
Step 2
The TD professional has confirmed that the company's policy states employees are not authorized to access other employees' financial records without executive approval. The TD professional has been asked by the HR manager to participate in a meeting with the HR, compliance, and legal departments related to this investigation.
During this meeting, what should the TD professional do?
A talent development (TD) professional has been hired as a consultant for a 20-person manufacturing company. The TD professional has not worked in this industry before. Several employees have complained to the human resources (HR) department that some supervisors have been disrespectful toward them when giving feedback. The HR manager decides that company-wide training on appropriate feedback is needed. The TD professional is assigned to conduct a needs analysis and to report the results to the HR manager in two days.
Which data collection method(s) would be most appropriate for the TD professional to use to complete the needs analysis?
A talent development (TD) professional facilitates a three-week training course for all of a company's new hires. Company onboarding guidelines state that new hires must pass the course final exam with a score of 80% or higher in order to continue in the job, but the guidelines also provide for some discretion on the part of the hiring manager. Participant A fails the final exam with a score of 78%. Participant A was frequently late to training, did not readily participate, and fell asleep twice during the course.
What should the TD professional do?
