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Source: Dr Donald Kirkpatrick - American Society for Training and Development
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Traditional Training Methods
- Level 1 - Reactionary Training Presentations and seminars -aimed at rising consciousness and focusing attention on a specific subject. While these programs generally result in an immediate burst of activity in the short term, their long-term benefit is limited.
- Level 2 - Traditional Training College -style presentations convening a subject in depth in an academic setting. The “textbook approach” rarely leads to long-term gain in business due to lack of real-world application.
- Level 3 - Skills Training Workshops - during which new techniques and behaviors are presented and practiced over an extended period of time. Results from this training vary greatly, depending on whether a sound evaluation and measurement process is in place to encourage the use of the learned skills.
Creating the Edge’s Training Method:
- Level 4 - Training for Results
Training specifically designed to change behaviors based on pre-determined business objectives. Evaluation and measurement criteria are developed prior to training and carefully applied over an extended period of time. This type of training results in permanent change.
The difference is quite evident between the methods where application is not a pre-requisite to the process. The first two methods have no long term impact on work performance, where-as the process where application is involved there is a permanent change.
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