10 Tips to Make Training and Development Work

How much money did your organization invest last year in training and development that failed to provide the results you sought? You are not alone if employee training classes rarely resulted in the transfer of immediately useful information to your workplace.

Real employee behavioral change, based on the training content, is even harder to demonstrate in most organizations. Discouraging? You bet. So what's an organization to do to ensure employee training transfer to the workplace?

You can create a training and developemnt support process that will ensure that the employee training you do works. You can make training and development more effective within your organization. These ten suggestions and approaches will make your employee training more effective and transferable; their application will result in measurable differences to your bottom line performance.

This article is the first of a three-part series about making employee training transfer to the workplace and produce the results you need for your organization. The second article explores actual processes and activities within the employee training session that help people obtain useable skills for workplace application. The third article helps your organization support people as they apply the skills from the employee training and use the information in your real-time workplace.

You can do the following in advance of the employee training session to increase the likelihood that the training you do will actually transfer to the workplace.

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