Sports management professionalHuman resources managementTraining document n°6The position of sports marketing professional will be obtained by a person holding a diploma in marketing; therefore, the specific training required to complete the job duties will be positioned around the objectives already learned throughout one's previous studies. The following is an overview of what the training actually is and its purpose. It also covers the training techniques that will be used for a person to obtain the position of sports marketing professional for the Chicago White Sox. Training and development are processes that attempt to provide an employee with information, skills, and an understanding of the organization and its goals. . Before this training and development takes place, one must undergo an orientation to learn what the organization stands for and the type of work they are expected to do. Orientation is defined as introducing new employees to the organization and their new tasks, managers, and work groups. An orientation is designed to make the individual feel comfortable, competent, and ready to work within the company's culture, structure, and employee mix. The goals of orientation are to reduce anxiety, reduce turnover, save time, and develop realistic expectations. Usually, the operational manager carries out the orientation. Once a person has gone through the orientation process, they are ready to pursue job training. Training is known as the systematic process of changing employee behavior in a direction to achieve the organization's goals. Some goals of the training process are training validity, transfer validity, intra-organizational validity, and inter-organizational validity. There are several different training techniques that can be used to train individuals. On-the-job training can be an informal and formal method. The employee is put in a real work situation and shown the job and the tricks of the trade by an experienced employee or the supervisor. A widely used technique is the case method, which uses a written description of an actual decision-making situation within the organization. This is similar to another technique called role playing. In this tactic, you play a case situation to practice the position. The inbox technique collects documents that include typical items from mail, emails, and a phone list of a specific manager. The individual is supervised and criticized on the number of decisions made in the allotted time, the quality of the decisions and the priorities chosen to make them..