Training and development activities are sadly often first on the chopping block when it is time for budget cuts. Imagine that you are an HR employee working in Talent Management. Your boss has come to you announcing that we will be suspending training and reducing our development activities. Your job in this week’s discussion forum is to convince him/her otherwise by selling him on the benefits of T&D activities. Why are these critical to an organization’s success? What are some of the organizational problems we can solve by using T&D activities? Please be specific in your answer, e.g., you could talk specifically about the importance of a mentoring program or an orientation program, instead of talking about T&D in general.