Respond to the items below.

Part A: What should be included in a development plan? What do you think is the most important part of the plan for ensuring that employees develop? Explain your choice.

Part B: Nationwide Financial, a 5,000-employee life insurance company based in Columbus, Ohio, uses the nine-box grid for its succession review. What type of development plans and activities would you recommend for solid but not outstanding performers with moderate leadership potential? How would these plans differ from employees with high potential and high performance (stars)? Explain.

Part C: How would you prepare a team of three managers to go to Warsaw, Poland, to oversee the operations of a recently acquired financial services firm? They will be leaving in one month, and the assignment lasts two years.

Part D: Distance learning can be used to deliver a lecture to geographically dispersed trainees. How might distance learning be designed and used to avoid some of the learning and transfer of training problems of the traditional lecture method?

Part E: Why would a company use a combination of face-to-face instruction and web-based training?

Sources must be cited in APA format.