The Project Training Pickle

Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.

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What do you do when newly trained project workers are not applying on the job what they supposedly learned in training? What can you do? You will have to determine if the trainees learned what they were supposed to. If they did, then you will have to assume there are barriers to applying that learning and have to take time to determine causes and attempt to eliminate the barriers while the workers are supposed to be working. If the trainees did not learn what they were supposed to, then you are faced with two unpleasant options. Rerunning the same training program would be ill-advised, but any alternative would certainly take too much time and resources. You would find yourself in a real pickle.

It is clear that you want to avoid this situation entirely. One thing not to do is the common “one-two punch” of identifying training requirements and checking them off as complete when training delivery ends. There are a couple of tactics to use during planning for project training that will give you the control that is necessary. When you create your training plan, give it additional rigor to avoid the dreaded “Training Failure Risk”.

Planning Post-Training Evaluation to Reduce Risk of Failure
Project-related training can be for a new project management process, a new programming language skill and even interaction skills. In all cases, failure of …

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