Training and Development For Dummies

Chapter 14

Transfer of Learning

In This Chapter

Discovering how to follow up with your participants

Overcoming barriers to transfer of learning

Recognizing the importance of planning for transfer

Seeing what great trainers do after training

“ Well, that was a great training session; now back to work!” Ever heard a colleague say something like this upon returning from a training session? I have left training with a big binder filled with good ideas. Because work piled up while I was gone, I place the training binder on my desk promising myself that I would look at it later and implement what I learned. Later came and went and soon I moved the binder to a shelf next to lots of other binders filled with good ideas. Why does this happen? And when you are the one in the training role, is that what you want to occur? Of course not! But it takes a team effort to ensure that learning transfers to the workplace.

The supervisors, learners, and trainers form a team right from the start to ensure that learning and skills transfer from the training session to the workplace. You know that the ...