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Once you have actually carried out the training, the final step is to evaluate it. Training without effective evaluation is worthless. Evaluation is necessary for two main reasons. The first of these is that evaluation will give you feedback on the effectiveness of your training. Think back to...
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Delivering Development (v): Group Training
Group training is generally perceived as the only form of training, because of our early classroom experiences. Group training has a lot in common with presentation. If you marry the principles of employee learning to the skills of presentation, you will need to take control of the session...
Delivering Development (iv): Peer Training
When you don’t have time to train, you can delegate the training task to someone else - a colleague or a peer. Employees tend to listen more carefully to other employees - after all, they see them all the time whereas they may see the manager only now and then. Another advantage is the...
Delivering Development (iii): One-To-One Training
One-to-one training is perhaps the most common sort of training in smaller organisations. It can be effective if carried out properly. However, It is important to avoid the production line syndrome. This occurs when a new worker is given five minutes of instruction on working on a fast-moving...
Delivering Development (ii): Informal Training
You can develop employees informally through a number of ways: communication - changes in knowledge can develop people. Regular bulletins, team briefings, meetings, etc will help develop employee knowledge; delegation - delegation should be a developmental activity; project work or...
In a small organisation, or a department within a larger one, you are likely to develop people informally on a regular basis. It can help you to consider what methods are available to develop employees. Then, integrate these into an effective overall developmental plan which links into the...
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People tend to think that developing people is just about adding something to them - new knowledge, new skills, new attitudes, etc. The thinking behind this is flawed: 'You’ve got a two and if you add two more you’ll get a four'. Unfortunately, people aren’t numbers, and we may have to...
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When taking on the role of a manager and/or leader it is important to take a flexible approach to the management of staff. Henri Fayol, a successful manager, highlighted five standardised principles which he believed every manager has an obligation to incorporate into their management...
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As an owner manager, it will undoubtedly be necessary for you to delegate work to others and to appraise their performance. How you handle such situations will have a very great bearing on how you are perceived. In addition, there is more to each process than simply to sit down and have a chat to...
For centuries, the UK has been home to some of the world's greatest writers and the country continues to produce top authors, poets, critics and academics to the present day. The literature industry includes not only aspiring writers, novelists, poets and playwrights, but also editors, agents,...
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