Week 3 Project

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Program Design Topics of interest for your consideration include:

Choose and prepare a training site based on how trainees interact with the content and with each other.

Prepare instructions using a curriculum roadmap, lesson plan, design document, and concept map.

Understand the impact of trainees’ age, generational differences, and personality on the programs designed.

Prepare a request for proposal (RFP) and a list of questions to evaluate training consultants and suppliers.

Understand which program design elements should be included to ensure near and far transfer of training.

Develop and implement a self-management module for a training program.

Design and implement assignments and action plans to augment learning and transfer of training.

Recommend managers’ actions before, during, and after training to facilitate learning and transfer.

Recommend ways to manage knowledge and the conditions necessary for employees to share knowledge.

Program design refers to the organization and coordination of a training program. It is the heart of an effective training because it directly influences knowledge and skill acquisition. Accordingly, it is imperative that training programs be carefully designed to ensure that maximum learning is achieved.

It is important to take a broad perspective when designing a training program, regardless of whether it is an online program or a face-to-face program. Employees have to be motivated to attend training, to transfer trained skills, and to share their knowledge with others. As such, program design should not only consider what happens during the focal training program but also consider what happens in the wider organizational context.

The three phases of the program design process include pre-training, the learning event, and post- training. It is important to consider what happens before training, during training, and after training. Training should not be considered an isolated event.

Instructors should consider personality styles when delivering training. Many companies use the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which focuses on how people gather information and make decisions. The instructors can have trainees complete assessments such as this prior to training and then use this information to design training programs that users will find interesting and meaningful.

Myers–Briggs Personality Type Indicator The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator is an evaluation tool that addresses your internal

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Reference Myers, I. B. (1998). Introduction to type (6th ed.). Menlo Park, CA: CPP.

mechanisms to better determine how you react and what your psychological predilections in how one perceives the environment and actions around oneself.

According to Myers (1998):

Review each personality type to know more.

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

Additional Materials

From your course textbook, Employee Training and Development, read the following chapters:

Program Design

Training Evaluation