Leadership Supervisory Role: The Director of Training and Development’s first and most prominent role is his leadership role over the training and development department. Objectives and Responsibilities of the Director Training and Development The performance of the business is highly dependent on the training and support from the training department, which implies that the director monitoring the activities of the department must be highly experienced, motivated, and dedicated to quality training across the business.
The Director of Training and Development is responsible for the creation, implementation, and improvement of all business-wide training efforts. The Director of Training and Development maintains a consistent culture in the business with regard to training and development. The Director of Training and Development actively searches, creatively designs, and implements effective methods for enhancing performance, and recognizing outstanding performance. He is responsible for the assessment and identification of the business’s training and development needs, primarily at the managerial level and for the effective coordination of training and development programs for the business. KJ Apa, Britt Robertson, Bryce Gheisar, Juliet Rylance, Luke Kirby, Dennis Quaid, John Ortiz, Kirby Howell-Baptiste and the voice of Josh Gad.The Director of Training and Development heads the entire training and development department. "Why did I eat so many meat logs?" he laments after one animal wolfs down copious hot dogs.Īudiences may be more reluctant to swallow Hallstrom's sugary film.Ī DOG'S PURPOSE (PG, 100 mins) Drama/Romance. Scenes of animal cruelty are inferred within the bounds of a PG certificate, while Gad's silky vocal performance trots a thin line between mawkish and amusing. Fate eventually reunites Bailey – now a Saint Bernard – with Ethan (Dennis Quaid) but the master is a world-weary shadow of his former self.Ī Dog's Purpose barks a familiar tune, with a couple of daring rescues that would have made Lassie wag her tail with pride. In subsequent incarnations, Bailey is a German Shepherd called Ellie and a Corgi called Tino. A near fatal incident at the family home changes the course of Ethan's life and he is forced to say farewell to Bailey. They persuade Elizabeth's hard-drinking husband Jim (Luke Kirby) to keep Bailey and Ethan enthusiastically trains the dog, mastering an acrobatic trick with an American football.Įthan blossoms into a strapping high school senior (now played by KJ Apa) and falls head over heels in love with classmate Hannah (Britt Robertson). In his second incarnation in 1961, he is rescued from a dangerously hot truck by eight-year old Ethan Montgomery (Bryce Gheisar) and his mother Elizabeth (Juliet Rylance). Golden retriever Bailey (voiced by Gad) has a brief first life in the 1950s – he is captured by men from the local dog pound and put to sleep. The imbalance in running time devoted to different sets of humans keeps most of the characters at arm's length and there is a gnawing predictability to the film's dewy-eyed final destination. "That was the worst shot I ever got," he quips after one dog takes a bullet protecting his master from harm. Gad's soothing omnipresent voiceover, which is less excitable than his scene-stealing turn as singing snowman Olaf in Frozen, underscores the sobs with gentle humour. The point to Hallstrom's picture is to traumatise dog-loving audiences and the Oscar-nominated Swedish film-maker encourages a deluge of saltwater tears with repetitive scenes of man's best friend saying farewell to distraught owners. "Are we here for a reason? Is there a point to any of this?" the pooch wonders aloud. Based on the novel by W Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose bounds through decades of American history, tightly leashed to a sentimental mutt (voiced by Josh Gad), who is reincarnated as different breeds, but never forgets the smell of his first owner. LOVE never dies, nor does the four-legged hero of Lasse Hallstrom's emotionally manipulative family drama.