All organizations face the challenge of hiring and training new employees to be productive at the earliest. We can design elaborate training programs by making them go through sessions that get through multiple days. By thinking through the process of training as equivalent of training an athlete or a sports person, it can be structured well.
If you are training an athlete, following are things that are done by a coach:
- Teach the basics: rules of the game, what to do, what not to do.
- Show the arena: show the playing field
- Show the goal: What does it mean to succeed?
- Inspiration: who are the past winners and how they did it?
- Beginner Sessions: Show them how to and let them practice. They may fail, falter, loose in this, but that is not important.
- Constant Practice: Let them do it as frequently as possible so that the basics come naturally. Each person takes different time to develop their competency. Sometimes it involves unlearning, throwing away assumptions and get the right way to do it.
- Doing it on the job: This involves participating in practice matches with other players (sometimes experts, sometimes beginners)
- Learn advanced moves: Once the basics are coming naturally, it is time to learn special tasks, tricks. Learning to move from beginner to expert level.
- Play confidently: You are on your own. Understand everything and performing at your best
Your training may have similar phases that walk employees through similar process. Use this as a guideline to prepare your training curriculum.
