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The following learning principles are important to keep in mind when planning and conducting training activities for adults. They are adopted from Xavier University Train the Trainer Workshop, delivered by Edward E. Jones, Ed.D.
Motivation Learners must be motivated before they will learn.
Learning requires your student to take action. Often this action is internal and is initiated by the student. He/she freely chooses to act or not to act to do something to acquire the knowledge, attitude, or skill you are teaching. You cannot motivate your learners. Your learners have to motivate themselves.
- We lack the intrinsic motivation to systematically improve our personal learning capabilities. We already have too much to do.
- We lack the right questions.
While the motivation question is certainly a big question, I want to skip over this for now. I'm going to assume that since you are reading this blog post, you must be in the top few % of motivated people.
What is more concerning is that I don't really think we know the right questions to be asking.
To be effective at training we need to understand how people learn. Most people can learn at an high level if they are given enough time and appropriate instruction. Therefore, the problem with training is time. In business we do not have the luxury of spending a lot of time. We usually only have hours to deliver days worth of material. People need to pick up the concepts quickly. The question is how can we speed up the learning process? The answer is in understanding how people learn in the first place.
People learn in a variety of ways but there are three main factors that influence the speed at which you learn anything new: aptitude (IQ), prerequisite knowledge and the quality of instruction.
The learning process is one of the most important processes in process improvement. It is also called the Shewhart or Deming cycle or PDCA-cycle. Shewhart and Deming are two of the central figures in the development of the quality. PDCA stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act.
Training is used to improve skills and increase competencies in order to drive out variance that reduces performance. Everybody uses some form of training. How do you know if your training is effective?
Lecturing to Transfer Information
The most commonly used method for transferring information in education today is the lecture. But is the lecture method the best at transferring information?
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