I am currently in a Training and Development course where I need to design a Training Program for my final project. As I gather ideas I am not coming up with to many thoughts on following up on training as to how often follow up should occur, what shouyld be included, and so on. I would appreciate anyone's thoughts on this subject.
Check ASTD's book, ISD From the Ground Up - or any book on insructional design. They all discuss follow-up. However, follow-up training suffers the same fate as course evaluation at level 2 and above - there's a lot of talk about it, but most folks don't do it.
I agree with Kaliko on this. Some added thoughts are...
Rather than just focus on follow-up, you might want to consider blended learning, where you consider several solutions to reach the learning outcome. i.e. can you support the training with workbooks, work-based, coaching, e-learning, telephone support, reading, intranet etc.
This does not necessarily have to come after the course and might frame it. I think most training suffers from the idea that all learning happens in the training room. You should identify learning opportunities both before and after an 'event' too.
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Originally posted by Trainer Bubble: I agree with Kaliko on this. Some added thoughts are...
Rather than just focus on follow-up, you might want to consider blended learning, where you consider several solutions to reach the learning outcome. i.e. can you support the training with workbooks, work-based, coaching, e-learning, telephone support, reading, intranet etc.
This does not necessarily have to come after the course and might frame it. I think most training suffers from the idea that all learning happens in the training room. You should identify learning opportunities both before and after an 'event' too.
Originally posted by KaliKo: Check ASTD's book, ISD From the Ground Up - or any book on insructional design. They all discuss follow-up. However, follow-up training suffers the same fate as course evaluation at level 2 and above - there's a lot of talk about it, but most folks don't do it.
Thanks for replying and you are so right that most do not follow up.
