Lots of training fails NOT because it isn’t well written or properly researched, but because we don’t spend long enough thinking about the transfer of learning. Transfer of learning is vital – if we can’t transfer what’s covered in the training back to the workplace, then everyone has wasted their time. The problem with transfer......
Designing training is a core skill of good trainers, yet it is one that is not often given proper attention. When learning to be a trainer almost all development is focussed on delivery skills, and design is somehow expected to be ‘picked up’. Many experienced trainers may also feel that, because they know their subject......
We believe that the purpose of training is to enable people to do their jobs better: more competently, confidently, efficiently or effectively. And it’s the Training Manager’s job to create or provide programmes that do that in an engaging, timely and cost-effective way. However, that isn’t always easy. To design training that people want to......
