Employee Training

Employees Need To Understand Company Financials

Employees at Artists’ Frame in Chicago knew what the company charged customers, and they knew that their pay was only a fraction of that. The CEO wanted them to understand that the difference between invoices prices and their salaries wasn’t all profit. So the employees were treated to a demonstration of the company’s expenses, illustrated [...]

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The KASH Model

The KASH Model consists of four phases: knowledge of a better way, attitude, skillful application of the new knowledge, and habit. Knowledge of a better way is trying to get learners to accept that there is a better of doing things. It involves selling the new way to the employee. Let’s use an example of [...]

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Observational Learning: A Key Component of Employee Training

Observational learning occurs when someone acquires new knowledge vicariously by observing what happens to others. This is the most common, and the most effective form of learning on the job.
Four processes must occur for observational learning to be most effective.

Attention: the learner must pay close attention to the model
Retention: the learner must be able to [...]

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A Person’s Ability To Learn

A person’s ability to learn is hampered when suffering from either the cold, flu, or other ailment. A person’s attention is diverted to alleviating those symptoms. If you have ever suffered from the cold or flu, you would have suffered from a runny nose, stuffy head, and body aches. If you have tried to read [...]

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MBA Field Studies: A Guide For Any Graduate Student

Field studies are conducted widely in business schools in the United States for the sole pupose to provide the maximum opportunity to learn. As many employers can relate, what you learn in a training program, you must be able to transfer to the job. It provides a unique educational opportunity that allows you to apply [...]

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Web Based Training

Background
In the past, training has been a place where you send your troubled employees to be fixed. Once their problems have been corrected they would then return to work. The problem with this form of training was that it was dehumanizing, had little care for the concerns for the employee.
In the last five years, we [...]

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Principles of Adult Learning

The outcome of Human Resource Development is performance improvement. A key component is learning, which is knowledge and expertise. Swanson (1996) defines HRD as that process of developing and/or unleashing human expertise through organizational development and personnel training and development for the purpose of improving performance at the organizational, work process, and individual levels. There [...]

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Cognitive Development

Employees have been said that they are the key people to making an organization run and achieve its goals. The employees are the organization’s most valuable asset. It seems only logical to allow employees to participate in programs that allow them to use their skills to the fullest. There have been many studies showing that [...]

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Bloom’s Taxonomy as an outline for a learning experience

How can Bloom’s Taxonomy be an outline for a learning experience?
As an assistant grocery manager at a supermarket, my first task would be to train my associates on planning and building displays. The grocery is the largest department in the supermarket and presentation is key to success. All associates need to have the skills to [...]

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Aspects of Human Cognition That Might Affect Perception

How some aspects of human cognition might affect a person’s perception of a trainer as effective or ineffective.
There are many opinions of what makes a good trainer and what makes an ineffective trainer. In today’s work environment, the supervisor is also playing the role of trainer. Supervisors are becoming increasingly responsible for the development of [...]

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