Every company strives to have a competitive advantage over its competition. Training, as part of a company’s overall strategic plan, can provide that competitive advantage. The key is to provide the right training to the right audience at the right time. A well-trained employee base will enable a company to overcome common challenges in its journey to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage.
In this project, you are the HR manager who will create a slide presentation for the executive board of a young company emphasizing that a competitive advantage requires developing and training employees. The company is growing fast and does not have any formal structure to training at this time.
Deliverables
· A 12- to 15-slide presentation with comprehensive presenter notes
Activity Details
Perform the following steps:
Step 1: Create a slide presentation.
Based on your learning from this lesson develop a 12- to 15-slide presentation that influences the executive board to support your efforts for training and demonstrates the contribution it provides for a competitive advantage. The slide presentation should cover the following areas:
· Training needs assessment (purpose, function)
· Training as a driver for a competitive advantage
· Purpose and outcomes for training
o Company (market share, meeting strategic goals, reputation, etc.)
o Individual
· Include the following trainings
o Orientation/Socialization
o Customer Service
o Quality Control/Assurance
o Leadership
· Evaluation process for training
Step 2: Write narrative for slides.
Write a narrative for each slide in the Notes section of the slide presentation.
Use these presentation guidelines:
· Include a title slide. (Not included in your required slide count)
· Use clear, concise bullet points (not overly wordy and typically not complete sentences).
· Aim for a preferred font size of 24-point with a minimum size of 18-point.
· Use white space to avoid crowded slides.
· Use upper and lower case letters (not all caps).
· Use images, tables, charts, etc. to add variety and interest as long as they also add value to your presentation.
· In your presentation software’s notes section for each slide, document what you would actually say in a live delivery of this presentation.
· At the end of the presentation, cite the sources you used to complete it.
Sample Solution
Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell.
In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.
God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.
Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.
To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.
References
Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.
Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.
Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.
