Formal (Not Necessarily Systematic) Training and Development Processes
Written by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Copyright 1997-2008.Very simply put, formal training is training that follows some designed form. Informal training occurs rather spontaneously and/or casually, for example, reading a book or having an enlightening discussion with a friend. Formal training tends to include preferred results, learning activities intended to achieve the results and some form of evaluation. Systematic, formal training includes careful assessments and attention to determining training goals, designing and building methods and materials that are directly aligned (and often pretested) to achieve the goals, implementing training, and careful evaluation to ensure that training is carried out effectively and that training goals were reached. In systematic, formal training, each phase of the process produces results directly needed by the next phase.
Topics include
Overviews of a Variety of Formal (Not Necessarily Systematic) Training ProcessesInformal Approaches to Employee Training and Development
Orientation Programs
Employee Training Programs
- - - Corporate Training Universities
Basic Guidelines and Framework to Design Personal and/or Professional Training Plan
- - - Various Ideas for Learning Activities and Documentation of Results
- - - Basic Guidelines (and Examples) for Writing Learning Objectives
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