To train effectively, first create a conducive environment, then follow these 5 steps:
Yesterday’s Daily Advisor discussed preparation for training … how to quell the discomfort many feel about facing new challenges and how to set up an effective training environment, followed by opportunities to put the new knowledge quickly to work.
Now let’s cover the training itself. How do you structure a lesson that will be both understood and retained?
For answers, we turn to BLR’s best-selling 10-Minute HR Trainer program. It’s a series of lessons in the day-to-day aspect of human resources compliance that your frontline management people are most likely to face.
Although 10-Minute HR Trainer focuses on HR, the program’s editors suggest that you follow this 5-step sequence in any skill you’d like to teach:
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1. Overview what will be learned, and explain how it will pay off for both the employee and the company.
2. Move on to bullet-point lessons, connecting them as much as possible with actual situations at your jobsite. “Identify policies, procedures, and examples that will make your supervisors nod in recognition,” 10-Minute HR Trainer suggests.
3. Instruct in small chunks. Allow time for discussion between segments, as well as periodic breaks.
4. After each chunk, insert a quick quiz, and tell trainees it’s coming. Trainees will listen more sharply. Score it immediately so they can see their progress and what they still need to learn. You may wish to call these quizzes “self-tests,” the book suggests, so that supervisors feel that they’re assessing themselves rather than being judged by others.
5. Provide a handout on the most important points for later reinforcement. If it’s information that both employees and supervisors need, create it as a poster or pamphlet that can be distributed.
As for the training materials themselves, we suggest that you turn to one of the excellent prewritten programs now available, making sure that the content it contains follows the instructional pattern outlined above, as our 10-Minute HR Trainer does. The program offers these features:
–Trains in 50 key HR topics, including manager and supervisor responsibilities, under all the major employment laws, and how to legally carry out managerial actions from hiring to termination. For a complete list of topics covered, click here.
–Uses the same teaching sequence master teachers use. Every lesson includes an overview, bullet-points of key material, an immediate quiz to test understanding, and a handout to reinforce the learning later.
–Completely prewritten and self-contained. Each unit is provided as a set of reproducibles. Just make copies or turn them into overheads, and you’re done. No research, writing, or other preparation needed. To see a sample lesson, click here.
–Updated continually. As laws and practices change, your training needs to as well. The 10-Minute HR Trainer program provides new lessons and updated information every 90 days, along with a monthly Training Forum newsletter, at no extra cost.
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–Teaches in as little as 10 minutes. The program name comes from each lesson being so concisely written and focused that there’s not a second’s waste of time. Your managers are in and out almost before they can look at their watches, the door, their watches…
Evaluate It at No Cost for 30 Days
We’ve arranged to make 10-Minute HR Trainer available to Daily Advisor readers for a 30-day, in-office, no-cost trial. Review it at your own pace and try some lessons with your colleagues. If it’s not for you, return it, and we pay return shipping. Click the link below for your no-cost, 30–day trial, and we’ll be happy to set it up for you.
The Answer to “No Time to Train Our Managers on HR”
Nobody’s got the time for HR training, but everybody’s got the need. We’ve compacted exactly what managers have to know about key laws and best practices into 50 prewritten learning modules that you can use in just 10 minutes each. Put us to the test. Try BLR’s 10-Minute HR Trainer at no cost for 30 days! Click to learn more or try it FREE.