I was watching a movie based on Robert McNamara’s book, The Fog of War. It reminded me of what I have sometimes said about training development. Catch my message in the video below.
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I’m talking about performance based equipment training objectives. I’ve actually written a ten page white paper on this. A lot of people find PBET objectives tedious, so the last thing they want to hear is any suggestion that they create even more objectives. So why am I even writing about it? Because it can help solve a [...] Incredible! Only one person commented for my contest, “Guess my favorite performance and training guru.” (Thanks Mike!) Well, Gloria Gery certainly contributed a lot to my thinking over the years, no question. But the third person on my list, after Bob Mager and Ruth Clark, was Carl Binder. Binder has written a number of articles on performance [...] …And My Reactions to Them Certainly this is a primary goal of hands-on practice. But what is competence? Performance-based training defines competence as meeting the requirements of the performance objective. But for competence to result from practice, at least three things must be true: The conditions of the practice must realistically reflect the [...] I was shoveling snow lately. It was then that the idea for this website began to form. Snow job: This is when we begin to fill time with a lot of theory, some degree of which is irrelevant and useless. This can be prompted by many things, like lack of access to a machine [...] Not every task that your target audience must perform requires training. Most training professionals know this, but may have forgotten to apply it. However, during this time of intense scrutiny of costs, it is time to adjust priorities, and that includes the types of tasks that are included in an equipment course. Typically, during the “analysis” [...] |
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