PART 1: 150 WORDS Find a public company’s sales, gross profit, or net income data from the last 4 years online. Include the URL that shows the data. Complete a 4-year trend analysis using the last 4 complete years of data. Enter the data into a blank Excel spreadsheet and use formulas to calculate the percentage of the base year.
Using several sentences, discuss the results of your trend analysis with some potential investors and recommend future action steps the business will take based on your results.
PART 2: 150 WORDS Development Methods methods of developing employees. Now you will apply what you learned to answer the following
questions: What are the four broad categories of employee development methods?
In an organization that wants to use work experience as a method of employee development, what basic options are available? What are the three roles of a coach? How is coaching different from mentoring?
What are some advantages of using someone outside the organization as a coach? Some disadvantages?
