Topics Covered in New Employee Training Programs
Building an employee training program without following the right outline is a fool's errand.
What topics should you cover in new employee training programs? What is and isn't necessary? How much theory should you have versus practical?
This is an area that most everyone fails horribly at. Most employee training programs look like college textbooks and are done only for their own sake.
The key to building effective employee training isn't jamming as much relevant data as you can into a binder and calling it a training program. The key to building effective employee training is teaching only what is necessary to do the job and teaching it on the right gradient--that is to say, reducing the learning curve by teaching the fundamental aspects first and building upon those until you are teaching more advanced material.
One of the biggest problems most employee training programs have is that they were built with the wrong philosophy.
Too many training programs resemble half-baked college courses. They throw the employee headlong into technical details, case studies, articles and reports and utterly fail to answer simple questions about how to actually do the job.
We've found that the most common illnesses that training programs have are 1) they don't teach the job as it's actually done--employees are promptly told to "forget whatever they said in training," 2) they're too complex, 3) they are full of irrelevant data--data that isn't entirely necessary to just do the job, 4) they have no practical to balance an overwhelming amount of theory, 5) they try to use testing to compensate for the other problems.
Employee training is not done for its own sake. Employees are not in training simply so you can say you train your employees. They do not train to just pass a test.
Through 2 years of research and testing, we've built very successful models of employee training programs that can be applied to any job--the models give the outline and you simply fill in the blanks with the relevant information. These models work. They create competent employees that quickly become valuable, stable team members.
Don't believe me? Well, I don't blame you. Everyone says their product is the best and let's face it, most employee training methods don't work. Some of the more unique aspects of our models are...
- A "New Hire Pack" that, in simple terms, introduces the employee to the industry, the company, the purpose and product of his job, the goals for his area and for the organization and more.
- Clarification of industry keywords that can cause fundamental misunderstandings and thus many different errors.
- Drills that allow the employee to practice every aspect of his job until he's perfect.
- Implementation programs that instruct the employee on exactly what to do in order to apply everything he's learned when he's live on the job.
- And more...
Don't take my word for it though. I want to show you, in detail, our training method and if its workability, and dare I say ingenuity, isn't immediately obvious to you, then that's our loss.
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