Learning While Working

Introduction

Adult learners require relevance for training content of any kind to truly stick. If they do not believe that what they are learning applies to their daily duties, the odds of them retaining or applying the new knowledge are slim to none—which defeats the whole purpose of your training initiative.

In an “off the job” training situation, such as a traditional classroom, learning comprises concepts, ideas, and suggestions for when the learner gets back to their job. But on-the-job training (OJT) programs, particularly when buoyed by a structure, provide guided and targeted work-based experiences that allow learners to be trained on tasks in real time, in production environment situations where relevance to daily tasks is clearly ...