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Is the Training You Plan in Your Training Plan Bland?

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Is the training you plan in your training plan bland? Is it going to be delivered in a classroom with a lecturer like a black and white newsreel from the early twentieth century? If so, is it out of some kind of corporate cultural inertia? Certainly you realize that improvements in training have occurred in the many decades since these newsreels.
Of course different topics benefit from different delivery strategies and interactive techniques, but boring reduces “stickiness” of the learning. And attendees wonder whether it is really that important if so little effort has gone into it. Younger generations fins it difficult to stomach the classic lecture. Any hour put into training should bring learning and performance improvement for your project. So make some checks before you commit to training:
  • How does the instructional design maximize learning or meeting the objectives?
  • What techniques do the trainers use to ensure each participant learns the objectives and enjoys the course?
  • What have been the comments of the participants to previous deliveries?
  • What have been the results of testing on the objectives from previous deliveries?
These questions are the basis for your due diligence to avoid the wasted time of bland training.

Posted on: May 07, 2008 10:48 PM | Permalink

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