What Business Leaders Should Know About
Learning In The Workplace

Do you frequently question whether the training you pay for does any good? You can avoid the widely accepted but faulty assumptions upon which much business training is built. Learn how to specify training programs that directly support business objectives, and produce valuable and predictable results. Learn how to create an environment within which the right people can learn the right things at the right time and place, and make learning and skill development an integral part of everyday work.

OUTLINE

Create a Sound Framework

• The difference between training and learning.
• Assumptions about how people learn.
• Organizational models -- The healthy and the unhealthy.

Specify What You Really Want

• Identify and analyze a performance problem.
• Recognize when training is called for and when it is not.
• Describe requirements in terms of:
  • OUTPUTS (Performance Results -- Individual and Organizational)
        instead of
  • INPUTS (Information/Time/Staff/Facilities/Materials/Costs)

Get The Results

• Pick the best strategy.
• Establish individual learning processes rather than group training events.
• Create an environment that supports just-in-time learning.
• Select the right people to serve as instructors or coaches.
• Establish reinforcement mechanisms in the work environment.
• Evaluate the results.

This seminar of designed for half-day sessions, but can be adapted to the needs of particular groups. Contact Makela Performance, Inc. for more information.