Seven Principles to Deliver Training Effectively

1. Seven Principles to Deliver Training Effectively

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3. Seven Principles to Deliver Training Effectively • The Principle of The Learning Specialist • The Principle of The Learner • The Principle of The Language • The Principle of The Lesson • The Principle of The Teaching Process • The Principle of The Learning Process • The Principle of Review and Application

4. Principle 1 : The Learning Specialist A learning specialist must know the program, lesson, subject, skill, or truth to be taught.

5. Rules to Apply for Principle 1 • Prepare each lesson by fresh study and review. • Illustrate new ideas, concepts, truths, and facts in terms of the every­day experiences of the learners. • Discover the "natural order" of material or information to be presented.

6. Rules to Apply for Principle 1 • Whenever possible relate the material to the lives of the learners • Set aside a definite time for study for each session or lesson, in advance of the instruction.

7. Rules to Apply for Principle 1 • Learning specialists should not limit themselves to the training aids at hand • It is important to remember that complete mastery of just a few ideas is better than an ineffective smattering of many

8. Principle 2 : The Learner A learner must attend with interest to the program, lesson, or subject.

9. Rules to Apply for Principle 2 • Never begin a training session until the attention (active) of the learners has been secured. • Pause whenever attention is interrupted or lost; wait until it is completely regained before you begin again. • Never completely exhaust the attention of the learners.

10. Rules to Apply for Principle 2 • Appeal whenever possible to the personal interests of the learners. • Use a variety of instructional methods to arouse the attention of the learners. • Identify sources of distraction and reduce them to a minimum.

11. Rules to Apply for Principle 2 • Make the presentation as attractive as possible, using illustrations, graphics, and training aids. • Use third-party stories, dialogue, and analogies whenever possible to illustrate the point.

12. Rules to Apply for Principle 2 • Prepare before the session several thought-provoking questions. • Maintain appropriate eye contact with the learners and use appropriate voice inflection and body language

13. Principle 3 : The Language The language used as a medium between the learning specialist and the learner must be common to both

14. Rules to Apply for Principle 3 • Use the simplest and fewest words that will express the desired meaning. • Study carefully and constantly the language of the learners. • Test thelearners' understanding of the words frequently to make certain that they are not being incorrectly used.

15. Rules to Apply for Principle 3 • Use short sentences of the simplest construction. • Use illustrations to help the learners understand the meaning of words and symbols. • If the learners fail to understand, repeat the idea or thought in other language, or use an analogy or example.

16. Rules to Apply for Principle 3 • If the learners fail to understand, repeat the idea or thought in other language, or use an analogy or example. • Identify the terms, symbols, and language that the learners are familiar with prior to the session and adjust the program accordingly.

17. Principle 4: The Lesson The information or skill to be mastered must be explicable in terms of information already known by the learner — the unknown must be explained by means of the known.

18. Rules to Apply for Principle 4 • Discover what the learners know of the subject, topic, and material; this is the starting point. • Utilize the learners' knowledge and experience. • Relate every lesson—as much as possible—to former lessons as well as to the experiences of the learners.

19. Rules to Apply for Principle 4 • Arrange the presentation so that each step of the lesson leads easily and naturally to the next. • Use illustrations that the learners can identify with.

20. Rules to Apply for Principle 4 • Encourage the learners to make use of their own knowledge. • As much as possible, choose the problems that you assign to the learners from their own activities and interests.

21. Principle 5 : The Teaching Process The teaching process must be arousing, using the learner's mind to grasp the desired thought or to master the desired skill.

22. Rules to Apply for Principle 5 • Excite the learners' interest in the subject, lesson, and/or material through statement of inquiry or thought-provoking questions. • Consider it a principal responsibility to awaken the minds of the learners and to not rest until each learner demonstrates his or her mental activity and involvement.

23. Rules to Apply for Principle 5 • Place yourself frequently in the position of the learners and join in their search for additional information and knowledge. • Allow learners time to sort out the material and gain understanding.

24. Rules to Apply for Principle 5 • Repress the desire to tell all you know or think about the subject, lesson, or topic. • Be dedicated to beginning each session in a manner that stirs interests and activity

25. Principle 6 : The Learning Process The learning process must turn one's own understanding of a new idea or truth into an overt habit that demonstrates the new awareness.

26. Rules to Apply for Principle 6 • Help the learners form a clear idea of the work to be done. • Ask the learners to express in words or in writing the meaning of the session or lesson as they understand it. • Answer the questions of the learners in a non-threatening manner.

27. Rules to Apply for Principle 6 • Strive to make the learners self-directed and independent investigators. • Seek constantly to develop in learners a profound regard for truth as something noble and enduring

28. Principle 7 : Review and Application The evidence of individual development must be reflected through a reviewing, rethinking, reproduction, and applying of the material, information, truth, or skill that has been communicated.

29. Rules to Apply for Principle 7 • Realize that reviews are a part of the instructional process. • Establish a set time for review. • Get into the habit of providing a review at the completion of each lesson as well as after each section or at the close of a topic or subject.

30. Rules to Apply for Principle 7 • Seek comprehensive and complete groupings of material. • Identify as many applications as possible. • Demand that learners rethink material and information into a personal understanding and orientation

31. Source of Reference: Jerry Gillet and Seteven Eggland, Principles of Human Resource Development, Perseus Books Group.