At some point in your life you will go through training. Every job has some sort of training whether it is formal or informal. After reflecting on a training courses that I have taken there have been negatives and positives. Something that I took away from this weeks lecture states, “A challenge with measuring training effectiveness is knowing what part of the increase in performance is due to the training and what part is due to other factors.” I thought this is important because unless you measure the performance before and after how are you supposed to know if the training was effective.
A training that was effective for me was hands on training. I was able to actively practice what I was learning for a job and this made it easier to understand what was going on. I especially liked this training because I was able to be corrected in my training so that I didn’t learn anything the wrong way and it didn’t get lost in training. Personally I feel like training needs to be something that is organized but nonconventional in the way that people are just learning in an order without repetition. The reason I saw nonconventional is because when I think of training I assume people are just watching and understanding how someone else does a task. Then, they would have to go repeat it on there own, after training.
My negative training experienced was one that was done over the computer. It was the same for everyone taking the training and it didn’t allow you to try to do it yourself. Although it was very organized, it didn’t cater to the watchers best way of learning. I feel like the was to improve this is to not just make a training solely on the computer and allow there to also be an activity with it.
I believe hands-on training, from the lecture this week is the best form for someone learning a new task or subject. This optimizes the most learning because there able to di the task themselves while learning.
