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Six key
ingredients to developing individuals and
organizations to produce world-class results
1.
Train in short bursts. If
you're teaching skills,
training sessions should not take over an hour - too many ideas with too little time to
assimilate them.
2.
Practice and
practice. The transition from theory to practical application
requires participants to the skill immediately. The more “real”
the practice the better the training will stick.
3.
Space the
learning and pace the learning. Participants need time to practice
the material on the job. Spaced training allows participants time to
test the material in actual settings, and hone them until they have
achieved mastery.
4.
Aggressively
follow-up. After participants have been given time to practice, each
one must be held accountable for application. Did they practice?
What happened? What worked? What corrections must be made? Without
meaningful accountability and mid-course corrections, many training
initiatives fall short of achieving desired behavioral changes and
organizational impact.
5.
Have leaders
train. This particular suggestion often rankles, or at least
worries, people. Can leaders (supervisors) actually make training
fly? Research has proven that when supervisors are put in a teaching
role group behavioral change dramatically improves. Give them the
right tools with simple training on how to use the tools and
business results will improve!
6.
Train in intact
workgroups.
Training yields the best results when intact teams can move through
the training together.
By
Jeff Harrison
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