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Are the challenges faced by high tech equipment trainers similar to the challenges faced by soft skill trainers (leadership development, etc)?

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Rapid Delivery

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8 Gut Reasons to Provide Hands-On Practice in Equipment Training

…And My Reactions to Them
1. Practice builds competence.

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 [...]

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Laptops in your training classes.

There is evidence that laptops in the college classroom may be distracting. What about in the techncal trainer’s equipment [...]

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