Project Management for Trainers: Stop "Winging It" and Get Control of Your Training Projects

Documenting the Learning Objectives

Creating learning objectives can be time consuming. Below is a simplified version of more academic approaches to creating objectives. Create good learning objectives by specifying the audience and behavior:

• Audience (A): Who will be learning? Whom is this objective for?

• Behavior (B): What will the learner be able to do differently, and how? How will the facilitator know that this learning has occurred? How will the business know?

• Condition (C): Under what conditions will the learning be required?

In the fictional case study offered earlier in the chapter, the reason underlying the project is a need to create behavioral change. The learning objectives are the criteria that define the work to be done, and at the ...