Product Training for the Technical Expert

5It is Never Just Product Training: Why You Should Offer the Training

There are many reasons and ways to educate adults. Corporate training programs come in many shapes and sizes. They don’t all have the same approach, nor do they all have the same expected outcomes. Some educational programs exist to improve or build on a student’s soft skills, while others seek to teach new proficiencies in a technical or precise environment. Some require extensive proof, not only of comprehension but also of the ability to perform the required task correctly and consistently. Some training programs require only comprehension testing or no testing at all. Others exist purely to avoid a lawsuit. I am sure you’ve had to sit through a few of those or at least click through the online compliance modules while you tried to do something more “meaningful.”

Applying the adult learning principles that were covered in the first few chapters will make you more effective as a product instructor. What it will not do is ensure that the training helps your business—and training that doesn’t help your business isn’t worth delivering. Offering training for the right reasons is essential. Otherwise, your most effective delivery will have ineffective results.

Product Solution Training Versus Talent Development

It is critical to the success of your product that you be effective as an instructor. Unlike some of the training mentioned earlier, you are teaching about a product or solution that you produce. Without ...