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Cultivation Mission Qualification Exam


  1. Cultivation is:
      a seven step process.
      a discipline for identifying and mentoring tomorrow's superstars by immersing them in a positive, collaborative, and empowering environment that encourages learning and career development.
      the only career development platform available.
      a discipline for identifying candidates for immersion in an environment that encourages them to find a job.
  2. Cultivation encourages the following type documentation:
      Lots, document everything in-depth
      none
      minimally effective documentation
      some
  3. How many steps are there in the Cultivation process?
      4
      6
      8
      10
  4. What are some of the common use cases for Cultivation?
      High Turnover
      inability to fill positions
      Lack of career track
      All of the above
  5. Cultivation helps build intellectual value in the organization.
      True
      False
  6. Candidate selection is looking to hire these types of candidates:
      fully qualified
      unemployed
      high potential
      smart
  7. The training phase prepares candidates to be successful in each new position; however, success still requires the candidates continued investment in learning
      True
      False
  8. Mission qualification is our first chance to ensure quality in the process. Candidates that fail can be returned to training of filtered out of the process based upon their readiness to move into the next step.
      True
      False
  9. What is unique about our familiarization phase?
      Mentoring
      Practical Experience
      The mentors newly added candidates that have become influencers (not always senior members of the team)
      It is the fifth step
  10. What is unique about our influencing phase?
      the candidate gains employment
      the candidate is assigned a mentor
      the candidate becomes a mentor
      the candidate is finished
  11. What is the sixth phase of Cultivation?
      Retention
      Familiarization
      Influencing
      Resume building
  12. What is the Cultivation goal for mentors to produce?
      a candidate with a job
      a candidate with the ability to successfully complete a task using the methodical problem solving thought process
      a candidate that is gaining certifications
      top notch candidates
  13. Are organizations encouraged to customize the Cultivation process.
      True
      False
  14. Cultivation encourages organizations to build career paths into the process.
      True
      False
  15. A candidate's failure is reflected as failure for the mentor.
      True
      False
  16. Cultivation is aimed at:
      Defining training programs?
      Developing employee soft skills?
      Creating meaningful ways for new hires to meet existing employees?
      Nurturing an organizational culture based in continuous learning?
  17. Cultivation has:
      Strong ties to academia?
      No place in commercial applications where profit and growth matter?
      An ability to generate immediate results?
      Six steps designed to strategically transform an organization into a perpetually learning environment?
  18. Common business challenges Cultivation can help overcome:
      High employee turnover?
      Constantly “reinventing the wheel” with each new hire?
      Low employee morale?
      All of the above?
  19. Cultivation programs provide quick fixes to common business challenges.
      True
      False
  20. Cultivation is a cheap fix to the high price of hiring high-paid highly qualified personnel.
      True
      False
  21. Cultivation removes credentials and achievement as important qualities of a potential new hire.
      True
      False
  22. Company values, norms and rituals can be integrated into the Cultivation process.
      True
      False
  23. Senior staff and company management are not directly involved in the Familiarization phase of Cultivation (assuming the first round of candidates are trained).
      True
      False
  24. Cultivation is an unstructured approach to developing skills and knowledge of employees that requires little or no documentation.
      True
      False

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