#ON THE JOB TRAINING METHODS HOW TO#
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#ON THE JOB TRAINING METHODS SERIES#

Role Play: Requires trainees to assume a character and act out the role in a make-believe scenario or series of scenarios learning comes by way of reflection on the play.Role-Modeling: Involves the live presentation of skill(s) to an audience of trainees.Programmed Instruction: Involves the delivery of training through instruction that is delivered by a program via some electronic device without the presence of an instructor (think: language training).Mentorship aims to provide support and guidance to less experienced employees whereas apprenticeship is for the development of job skills. Mentoring & Apprenticeship: Involves a one-on-one partnership between a novice employee with a senior employee.Lecture: Involves the dissemination of training material by a trainer to a group of trainees, by means of verbal instruction.Job Shadowing: Involves a trainee closely observing someone perform a specific job in the natural job environment for the purpose of witnessing first-hand the details of the job.

Job Rotation: Involves training for a job by working in the job for a limited duration, while still maintaining the original job.Internship: Involves supervised, practical training while on the job where the trainee is permitted to work in the position for which they are training, but with some restrictions and with substantially less pay or no pay.Games-Based Training: Trainees compete in a series of decision-making tasks which allows them to explore a variety of strategic alternatives and experience the consequences which affect the other players, but with without risk to the individuals or the organization.

#ON THE JOB TRAINING METHODS HOW TO#

Case Study: Provides the participants an opportunity to develop skills by presenting a problem, without a solution, for them to solve, or with a solution, as an example of how to solve it.

The methods are defined, as in Lam’s review, briefly below: To those, author Tony Lam adds: case study, games-based training, job shadowing, mentoring, programmed instruction, role-modeling, role play, stimulus-based training, and team training. What is perhaps more valuable than the analysis is the prompt to look beyond the usual employee training method “suspects,” which generally include apprenticeships, internships, on-the-job training, lectures, job rotation, simulations and e-learning. If those criteria are driving your choice of training, here’s the link: Training Methods: A Review & Analysis.

On the job training methods