Yesterday, we discussed 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 aspects 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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- Give an overview of what will be learned, and explain how it will pay off for both the employee and the company.
- 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.
- Instruct in small chunks. Allow time for discussion between segments, as well as periodic breaks.
- 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.
- 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.
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With this training resource, we’ve provided an easy-to-manage program that lets you train in discrete, 10-minute chunks. It’s a program that’s easy for you to deliver and that requires little time from busy schedules. (Also, if you’re like most companies in these tight budget days, you will like that it is reasonable in cost.)
When we asked our editors for a system that trains in a minimum amount of time with maximum effect, they came back with BLR’s unique 10-Minute HR Trainer.
As its name implies, this product trains managers and supervisors in critical HR skills in as little as 10 minutes for each topic. 10-Minute HR Trainer offers these features:
Trains in 50 key HR topics under all major employment laws, including manager and supervisor responsibilities, and how to legally carry out managerial actions from hiring to termination. (See a complete list of topics below.)
Uses the same teaching sequence master teachers use. Every training unit includes an overview, bullet points on key lessons, a quiz, and a handout to reinforce the lesson later.
Completely prewritten and self-contained. Each unit comes as a set of reproducible documents. Just make copies or turn them into overheads, and you’re done. (Take a look at a sample lesson below.)
Updated continually. As laws change, your training needs to do so as well. 10-Minute HR Trainer provides new lessons and updated information every 90 days, along with a monthly Training Forum newsletter, for as long as you are in the program.
Works fast. Each session is so focused that there’s not a second’s waste of time. Your managers are in and out almost before they can look at the clock, yet they remember small details even months later.
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We’ve arranged to make 10-Minute HR Trainer available to our 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 at our expense. Click here and we’ll set you up with 10-Minute HR Trainer.
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