Today I thought I would share a few of the elements that you might look for or create for your training efforts to drive a return on investment.
- First determine your organizational and individual training needs. Then you can match the curriculum with those needs.
- Create a charter for application of the training in their facility. This should include the task that will be used to apply the learning points from the curriculum and the expected return on investment from completing those task.
- Ensure that this charter is approved and owned by both the student and their manager.
- Verify that those that will be affected (above and beyond the student) by the training application work are aware and properly motivated. This could be operators, maintainers or supervisors in the area of application.
- Create course material that is not just hundreds of power point slides. It should be interactive and social. We use simulations, games, case studies, e-learning, and teach back single point lessons to ensure that we are engaging all of the learning styles of our students. Our goal is to spend only one quarter of each hour on material directly from the slides.
- Don't just have a training class. Connect your training with coaching in the field and project work that allows for application of each required learning point. This demonstrates learning while also driving your return on investment.
In the end we want to verify that the learning objective have been retained and applied within the facility correctly and through this application we will then see the return on investment for the training effort.
See how we take this method of learning, and turn it into a documented return on investment for you.
