Effective Training Strategies

"Depending on your involvement with learning in organizations, you will need to make your own definition of training and decide whether what you do is more like training, development, or education."

"Perhaps we even lose sight of the fact that well-established traditions were once choices and that current arrangements have no real claim on the future unless they are effective."

"Trainers have accumulated and developed useful rational models for planning and implementing training."

"Subject matter is important because it is part of the goal, indeed, it may be the very foundation of the goals for a particular type of training."

"The generic question underlying all of these questions is, What kind of learning is the goal of this training?"

"Skill development can be done more effectively by drawing on what is known from behavioral learning theory."

"There are three important questions to be answered: Why will people want to pay attention to his information? How will they process it? What should they remember?"

"There are three types of thinking that are very important in organizational settings: critical thinking, creative thinking, and dialogical thinking."

"The facilitator of inquiry also looks for the four important building blocks of critical thinking: definition, type of language used, categories, and relationships among ideas."

"Perhaps the most widely used description of the problem-solving process is the IDEAL Problem Solver."

"Trainers who use groups also know how to look for, spot, and deal with four common problems of group dynamics: conflict, apathy, groupthink, and social loafing."

"When the Virtual Reality Strategy is used to facilitate learning, activities can include simple role plays, more complex dramatic scenarios, games, and simulations."

"This type of learning is holistic because it reflects the capacity of the brain to take in an synthesize many aspects of experience at once."

"Maximizing learning in organizations depends on finding good answers to five key questions."

"Choosing the most appropriate strategy requires careful thought and sound professional judgement, but the selection is made easier by following this simple four-step process."

"With experience and good sense, trainers can learn to consider the background characteristics of the participants and adapt the Training Strategies accordingly to maximize learning."

"The systematic evaluation of training involves four levels: reaction, learning, behavior, and results."

"A deeper joy comes at the end when appropriate assessment techniques demonstrate that real learning occurred."