Informal Approaches to Employee Training and Development

(This page is referenced from Training Basics for Supervisors and Learners.)

Formal training typically includes involvement of training experts to design training, experts on the subject matter that learners are learning about, training goal(s), training methods that suit the goal, and methods to evaluate the quality of the training and results achieved among learners.

Informal training is less planned and more incidental. There are a large number of informal training methods. Many of the methods are so common that they are probably not viewed as training methods at all. Examples include:

discussions,
debates,
mentoring,
giving of directions,
verbal and written communications,
reading books,
any other learning activities that do not involve explicit training goals that will be evaluated.

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