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What Will Team-Driven Structured OJT Accomplish?

When you’ve determined that structured OJT is an appropriate response to an organizational problem, consider the following eight benefits of using a team-driven approach to that training. Here is what team-driven OJT can accomplish:

• Create a learning environment. In his famous work, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge writes, “Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations.” Groups of workers meeting once a week to identify tasks and write step-by-step procedures create an active learning environment in which tasks continuously are examined and updated. Team members cooperate in solving problems and learn from one another not only during meetings, but back on the ...