Five Characteristics of Good Training. Improve Workplace Performance with Business Goals Alignment.

July 29, 2009 by kutenk
Filed under: Learning - Training - Education 

Continuous Learning and Development is key element for creating sustainable, competitive enterprise. Corporation spend millions of dollar to train their employees to build competencies and gain competitive advantage. Generally, company mix different modes of training – classroom (Synchronous) and digital delivery (Asynchronous). Asynchronous training are generally self-study, self-paced lessons designed for individual learning. In contrast, Synchronous training, through classroom, is an instructor-led event attended by learners. Training can be located onsite or at external location. With onsite training, company can saves their employees time away from the office and their associated travel expenses. Private corporate training events can take place at your location, in your own training room, conference room, or other suitable location. The greatest advantage of onsite training is, training program can be customized to meet your organizational needs and objectives. An effective training program will carefully design each training ingredient (content, learning outcomes, instructional methods, and delivery media) for optimal results. This effective training usually combine both hard and soft skills development. For example, for the IT industry, besides the traditional Microsoft Office Training or IT Certification Training, many employees are trained on Soft Skills Training, Management Training, Leadership Training, and many more.

Regardless the modes of training, corporation should design their training as a structured learning environment engineered to improve workplace performance in ways that are aligned with bottom-line business goals. This must includes five main characteristics:
1.    Structured
An effective training environment is designed to optimize learning both during the training event and afterward on the job. Following a structured process and producing a structured product minimizes inconsistency in learning environments and aligns instructional products to job-essential knowledge and skills.
2.    Environment
Workforce learning is moving from a series of isolated training events to environments that incorporate diverse knowledge resources such as repositories of examples, performance templates, and access to expertise, along with traditional events in face-to-face and virtual media.
3.    Engineered
Effective learning environments do not happen by accident or by seat-of-the pants efforts. Effective learning environments are the products of a structured process and proven instructional methods matched to your content.
4.    Workplace Performance
An effective training program starts and ends with the job. It includes guidelines, examples, and exercises that are job relevant.
5.    Business Goals
An effective training program focuses on knowledge and skills that are aligned to important organizational objectives. Rather than training “communication skills”, an effective learning design defines specific behaviors associated with the types of communications needed to support organizational objectives.

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